Climate, Biodiversity, Sustainable Societies programme agency
The aim of the 'Climate, Biodiversity, Sustainable Societies' programme agency is to provide the required knowledge to support making the habitability of the planet and sustainable societies a shared collective objective. It also aims to support public decision-makers and stakeholders in society to respond effectively to environmental crises.
Human beings have never before had such a swift overall impact on the planet that now threatens the very survival of our societies and ecosystems. This means that, alongside developing ambitious international policies to cut our greenhouse gas emissions and fight global change, it is crucial to develop the capacity to adapt on the national scale to ensure the economy's resilience and the continuity of essential services, to preserve natural and cultural environments and to provide effective overall protection for the population. The 'Climate, Biodiversity, Sustainable Societies' programme led by the CNRS is at the interface with other programme agencies and aims to provide the right responses to these challenges.
The CNRS is the leading producer of science on the issues covered by the 'Climate, Biodiversity, Sustainable Societies' agency and has been asked to coordinate it. Our main responsibility will be to make this agency function as a collegiate body to create synergies between the many academic stakeholders and to ensure science and research can effectively serve the State, industry, local authorities and NGOs, by developing partnerships between these sectors.
The aim of the agency is to enhance the coordination of the work of research stakeholders and optimise the overall organisation of the research and innovation ecosystem in these fields. In particular, the agency will steer new national research programmes and ensure effective coordination with priority research programmes and equipments.
By bringing together partners from the socio-economic sphere alongside research and training stakeholders, the agency will support public decision-makers with knowledge acquired through the corresponding research programmes. It will also bring civil society and research together to co-construct new projects.
French Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe)
French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (Andra)
National Association of Research and Technology (ANRT)
French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES)
Association of French University Towns (Avuf)
French Geological Survey (BRGM)
Conference of Deans of French Schools of Engineering (CDEFI)
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Centre for Studies and Expertise on Risks, the Environment, Mobility and Urban Planning (Cerema)
French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)
Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE)
French Space Agency (CNES)
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Organization of University Hospital General Directors
France Nature Environnement (FNE)
France Universités
French Institutes of technology (represented by ITE Efficacity)
Institut français du pétrole – énergies nouvelles (Ifpen)
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer)
National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN)
French National Institute for the Industrial Environment and Risks (Ineris)
French Institute for Demographic Studies (Ined)
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (Inrae)
National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria)
Research Institute for Development (IRD)
Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais (LNE)
Météo France
French National Natural History Museum (MNHN)
French Biodiversity Agency (OFB)
Regions of France
RESPIC: research hub for private non-profit hospitals
Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (Shom)
Gustave Eiffel University
The CNRS's multidisciplinary nature means the organisation is part of all the agencies entrusted by the State to French academic stakeholders. The CNRS is represented in each agency by a scientific director and helps coordinate the agencies, set up working groups if necessary and put forward programmes.
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