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Sandrine Paillard (Future Earth) on the gaps that a new sustainability science initiative could help to bridge

What are the gaps that a new initiative on sustainability science could help to bridge? Sandrine Paillard, Director of the Future Earth Paris Hub offers some suggestions, with an‬ emphasis on the role of the humanities, improved science-policy communication, and the need to build on existing capacities during the visioning discussions taking place at the BRIDGES establishment workshop, UNESCO headquarters, Paris, 11-12 June 2019.‬‬‬‬‬

Credit: Originally published by Bifrost. Materials were recorded by Lea Rekow in Paris 2019, and are published by courtesy of the BRIDGES coalition partners and licensed as CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0

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