Amazonia/Tropical Forests
Approved for Scoping: BF Members Meeting June 2022
Lead BF Member: IAI/FAPESP
Estimated launch timeframe: January 2024
Brief Summary:
This CRA addresses tropical forests, especially the Amazon, to recognize pressing challenges and opportunities to meet the targets under the Sustainable Development Goals and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Changes detrimental to Amazonia and other tropical forests, especially in the Global South, include climate change, deforestation, unregulated agriculture, illegal wildlife trade, water contamination, and destruction of indigenous peoples and local communities whose survival depends on the local ecosystem under threat. Other immediate concerns include the release of new pathogens resulting from the destruction of biodiversity, and other related effects of environmental degradation in human health. This CRA proposal, therefore, aims to coordinate actions and projects with a transdisciplinary, participatory approach to develop innovative solutions to the challenges faced in the Amazon region and in other tropical forests. Acknowledging the differences in terms of governance, cultural diversity and territorial configuration, this CRA can have a broader scope to include other tropical forests that might be facing similar issues.
The transdisciplinary approach is transversal to all stages of the call and CRA development, therefore the IAI and FAPESP with the support of the Belmont Forum secretariat are hosting a series of participatory workshops to refine the scope of this initiative.
Scoping activities:
Scopings | Dates | Regions Covered |
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Funders/partners Workshop | 7 October, 2022 | Global |
Monthly Funders/interested organizations meeting | 15 February, 2023
13 March, 2023 |
Global |
Belmont Forum Members engagement meetings | One-on-one meetings scheduled with each member interested in the CRA Amazon, April-May 2023 | Global |
Scoping Workshop: “Actionable Scientific Research and Information for the Amazonia and Tropical Forests” | 19 April, 12:00 pm to 13:30 pm UYT (15:00 – 16:30 pm UTC) | LAC/Global |
Scoping Workshop “Funding priorities for the Tropical Forests” in partnership with Smithsonian Tropical Research Insitute | 28 June 2023
16:30 – 18:00 EST |
LAC/Global
In-person, Panama City |
Scoping Workshop “Amazon and tropical forests and its global implications: Defining priorities for a sustainable future” | 29 June 2023, 11:00 – 12:30 EST | Global
Hybrid, SRI 2023 |
Expert scoping workshop | July and August, TBD | Asia and Africa, virtual |
In-person scoping workshop “Engaging local interested parties and global funders for refining priorities for Amazonia and Tropical Forests, a focus on indigenous peoples and local communities” | 28-29 July 2023
08:30 – 12:30 am (Local time) |
In person
LAC/Global Leticia, Colombia |
Update on Belmont CRAs relevant for the Americas at AmeriGEO Week | August 2023 | Hybrid, LAC/Global
Side event at AmeriGEO Week in Costa Rica |
Capacity Building activity | March 2024
Location TBD |
Virtual and in person (Amazonia) |
For more information contact info@belmontforum.org, insert in the title “Amazonia/Tropical Forests” or sign up our mailing list.
Future Leaders
Approved for Scoping: 2020
Lead BF Member: NSF
Estimated launch timeframe: 2024
Brief Summary:
A different type of scientist is needed to lead team-based, trans-disciplinary science and innovation in the 21st century. The speed and magnitude of GEC demands that tomorrow’s science leaders, experts and practitioners be well-trained in their technical skills, and yet they will also need to be nimble and fluent across science disciplines, with collaborative leadership skills, and communication skills. This proposed Belmont Forum Program would invest in recruiting, training and networking our next-generation of scientists that better represent humanity & will give our science more legitimacy across communities.
Scoping activities:
Scopings | Dates | Regions Covered |
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Funders Scopings | 8 December, 2021 | Global |
Expert Scopings | June 2021
5 October, 2021 |
Global (SRI)
Global |
Fellows Scoping | 13 June 2023 | Global |
What does Leadership Look Like Panel (scoping-light) | SRI, June 2023 | Global (SRI) |
Expert Scoping | July 2023, TBA | Global |
For more information contact info@belmontforum.org, insert “Future Leaders” in the subject line or sign up our mailing list.
Pathways II
Approved for Scoping: 2022
Lead BF Member: NSF
Estimated launch timeframe: TBD
Brief Summary:
A different type of scientist is needed to lead team-based, trans-disciplinary science and innovation in the 21st century. The speed and magnitude of GEC demands that tomorrow’s science leaders, experts and practitioners be well-trained in their technical skills, and yet they will also need to be nimble and fluent across science disciplines, with collaborative leadership skills, and communication skills. This proposed Belmont Forum Program would invest in recruiting, training and networking our next-generation of scientists that better represent humanity & will give our science more legitimacy across communities.
Scoping activities:
Scopings | Dates | Regions Covered |
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Funders Scopings | 29 March, 2022 | Global |
Expert Scopings | 24 May, 2022
5 October, 2021 |
Europe/Africa/Asia
Europe/Africa/Americas |
Scoping w/Pathways I participants | SRI, June 2023 |
For more information contact info@belmontforum.org, insert “Pathways II” in the subject line or sign up our mailing list.
Africa Regional
Approved for Scoping: 2019 (taken forward in 2021)
Lead BF Member: NRF
Estimated launch timeframe: TBD
Brief Summary:
This call aims to bring together international, transdisciplinary research teams led by African scientists and stakeholders to address the priorities and needs that they have identified. The goal is to support integrative, qualitative and quantitative analyses and the employment of systems-based methodological approaches, where African capacities fall short. Because of the strong connectivity between public and private sector already present in the African scientific enterprise, this African Regional Call will allow the Forum to engage with players across the African private sector, philanthropic and deep impact investment leads, public sector stakeholders, and international partners interested in supporting an African Regional Call for proposals.
Scoping activities:
Scopings | Dates | Regions Covered |
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Funders Scopings | 31 August 2022
TBD |
Global |
Expert Scopings | 20 October 2022
8 December 2022 (@WSF) June 2023 (@SRI Africa Satellite Event) Early Fall 2023 |
Europe/Africa/Asia Americas/Europe/Africa
Africa/International International Europe/Africa/Asia Americas/Europe/Africa |
For more information contact info@belmontforum.org, insert “Africa Regional” in the subject line or sign up our mailing list.
Environmental Peacebuilding
Approved for Scoping: 2022
Lead BF Member: RCN
Presented by: Future Earth
Estimated launch timeframe: Scoping complete October 2024, Launch Spring 2025 at the Climate Diplomacy at The Hague in February
Brief Summary:
Increasing populations, uneven distributions of resources (natural, built, technical, informational), and misaligned governance instruments and institutions can create stresses that lead to conflict or increase the vulnerability of communities to disasters. Environmental peacebuilding (EP) focuses on this nexus of society, environment, and security to co-develop options, informed decisions, and efficient governance to lower or eliminate the potential for conflict and support healthy, resilient communities.
Scoping activities:
Scopings | Dates | Regions Covered |
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Funders & Experts Scoping | June 26, 2023 11 – 12:30 GMT-5 | Global (SRI) online |
For more information contact info@belmontforum.org, insert “Peacebuilding” in the subject line or sign up our mailing list.
Defining Urban Transitions
Approved for Scoping: 2022
Lead BF Member: TBD
Presented by: Defining Urban transitions JPI
Estimated launch timeframe: TBD
Brief Summary:
Scoping activities:
Scopings | Dates | Regions Covered |
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AGORA Strategic Dialogue #1 | 16 February 2023 (09.00-12.00 UTC) | 10:00-13:00 Brussels; 11:00-14.00 Cape Town |
AGORA Strategic Dialogue #2 | 20 February 2023 (17:00-20:00 UTC) |
09.00-12.00 Seattle; |
AGORA Strategic Dialogue #3 | 22 February 2023 (7:00-10:00 UTC) |
08.00-11.00 Berlin; |
For more information contact info@belmontforum.org, insert “Defining Urban Transitions” in the subject line or sign up our mailing list.
Vulnerability and Resilience Management for socio-environmental systems in exposed territories
Approved for Scoping: BF Members Meeting June 2023
Lead BF Member: ANR/AllEnvi/NTSC
Estimated launch timeframe: April 2025
Brief Summary:
Within the current context of increasing environmental risks, scientists and disaster experts have been working together for decades around communities such as the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). The need is now to go one step further to better integrate the complexity of socio-environmental systems, so as to define, formalize and implement a holistic risk science. This integration implies the theoretical roadmap of sustainability science, namely a trans-disciplinary approach that sums up knowledge and involves all concerned parties in the definition of adequate risk management solutions, but requires specific knowledge gaps to be addressed urgently. Taking inspiration from the current pandemic crisis, this CRA aims at defining and promoting “new” risks management concepts that better accounts for global change and the transformations of the relations between societies and nature. Within this holistic approach that expands the research conducted so far within the DR3 Collaborative Research Action of the Belmont Forum, this proposed CRA investigates the links between the vulnerability of socio-environmental systems in exposed territories and their capacity to converge to a resilient future. Expected outcomes include risk science developments in line with a sustainability science perspective, co-production of knowledge from the different disciplines, their implementation on highly vulnerable territories for informed governance, and the rise of a new generation of scientists and stakeholders able to better cope for ever-rising environmental risks.
For more information contact info@belmontforum.org, insert in the title “Vulnerability and resilience management” or sign up our mailing list.