Founding of an environment alliance, AllEnvi: Food, Water, Climate, Territories
09/02/2010 - Press release
Twelve scientific research players(1) have joined forces to found a national research alliance for the environment, AllEnvi. AllEnvi is the fourth such alliance, after those for health (Aviesan), energy (Ancre) and digital technologies (Allistene), and its main objective is to ensure better synergy, both within metropolitan France and in the French overseas regions, between research players working on scientifi issues relating to food, water, climate and territories.
The recent Copenhagen summit placed the question of global change and green at the heart of current economic challenges, social concerns and international relations. Global change does not only mean the climate, but also the environment, access to water, food, and sustainable agriculture. The existence of a strong, coordinated research sector working on these environmental questions is vital in finding a solution in line with the magnitude of the stakes. France has considerably increased its research efforts, as the "Grenelle I" draft law assigned a billion euros of public funding to environmental research, which is also one of the priorities laid down in the national strategy for research and innovation (SNRI).
AllEnvi will associate all the research and higher education players concerned, and build coordinated programmes, while submitting its priorities to the government and French and European funding agencies, and will be proposing the common research platforms required in many fields targeted by the "grand emprunt" (national bond).
The fields covered relate to:
● observation of the environment, experimentation and modelling of its evolution on every scale and long term;
● systemic research combining a study of processes in the living world and its interactions with the environment and human activity;
● innovation and engineering in the fields of water, biodiversity, food, agriculture, the sea and land use planning;
● better consideration of natural risks and environmental evaluations;
● training and knowledge transmission.
The joint establishment of scientific programmes and coordination of operations will be done by thematic and transverse groups.
Governance will be the responsibility of the Conseil de l'Alliance, comprising the twelve founder members.
The AllEnvi alliance will also be welcoming associate members drawn from the public bodies involved in the fields concerned.
- Category: Institutional