Earth System Science Partnership

 

For All of Us

The ESSP is a partnership for the integrated study of the Earth System, the ways that it is changing, and the implications for global and regional sustainability. The urgency of the challenge is great: In the present era, global environmental changes are both accelerating and moving the earth system into a state with no analogue in previous history.

 

We Have the Power to Impact Our Future, and We’re Doing Something About It

The Earth System is the unified set of physical, chemical, biological and social components, processes and interactions that together determine the state and dynamics of Planet Earth, including its biodata and its human occupants.

Earth System Science is the study of the Earth System, with an emphasis on observing, understanding and predicting global environmental changes involving interactions between land, atmosphere, water, ice, biosphere, societies, technologies and economies.

Carbon

Food

Water

Health

What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau