Collaborative Research

1) Coastal Zone Vulnerability

Scoping opportunities to plan a new international research activity to improve information for regional decision-making. 

2) Freshwater Security

Scoping opportunities to bring together national and regional observations and modeling of water availability and extreme events to develop a global picture. 

3) Food Security

Engaging with the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) and Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Challenge Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) to explore opportunities to accelerate earth system science contributions to regional-scale food security challenges, with a potential focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.

4) Securing the Biodiversity-Ecosystem Services Baseline

Scoping opportunities to align and coordinate existing national biodiversity and ecosystem functioning observation and monitoring sites to develop an international observation network.  

5) Ocean Acidification

Assessing the existing coverage of Southern Ocean Observatories supported by Belmont Forum members, and the critical gaps.

6) Forests and Agriculture

Scoping opportunities to align and co-design measurements and modelling of carbon stocks and forests, to assess the contribution of tropical forests world-wide in the global carbon sink.