Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2022

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[U-01] Contribution to SDGs by Earth and Planetary Science

Tue. May 24, 2022 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 101 (International Conference Hall, Makuhari Messe)

convener:Hodaka Kawahata(Atmosphere Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo), convener:Kiyoshi Suyehiro(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Brooks Hanson(American Geophysical Union), convener:Eiichi Tajika(Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo), Chairperson:Hodaka Kawahata(Atmosphere Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo), Kiyoshi Suyehiro(Japan Geoscience Union), Eiichi Tajika(Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)

9:38 AM - 9:56 AM

[U01-03] Geosciences and Sustainable Development Goals: AOGS Perspective

★Invited Papers

*David Laurence Higgitt1 (1.Lancaster University College at Beijing Jiaotong University)

Keywords:SDGs, AOGS, interdisciplinary, natural hazards

The geosciences have enormous potential to help deliver many of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Tackling climate change and prioritising environmental protection fundamentally underpin the complex challenges of transforming societies to advance human dignity and equality. The overarching mission of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), founded in 2003, is to promote geosciences for the benefit of humanity, specifically in the context of Asia and Oceania, a region particularly vulnerable to natural hazards. For the most part, scientific societies promote their constituent disciplines through establishing credible platforms for the exchange of specialist scientific knowledge. The extension to encouraging interdisciplinary investigation, engaging with industry and policy makers, reaching out to the public, supporting education and shaping agendas are all significant challenges for independent societies, made more difficult in the interlude caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The AOGS strategies to create legacy and influence research agendas to contribute to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will be discussed.