Frontiers Planet Prize’s Post

Here they are – the 2024 Frontiers Planet Prize National Champions 🏆 These 23 researchers from 23 different countries were voted as the 2024 National Champions by a jury of planetary health and Earth system science experts. At the annual Frontiers Planet Prize Award Ceremony, taking place on June 26, three International Champions, selected from this group of researchers, will be awarded with a prize of one million Swiss francs to further support their breakthrough research. Read more about the National Champions and their research ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gM9WZePD Congratulations to all the National Champions! #EarthScience #Sustainability #ClimateChange #PlanetaryHealth #PlanetaryBoundaries

Dr Alexandra Sack from The Carter Center, USA, co-authored the 2024 Frontiers Planet Prize winning article 'A planetary health innovation for disease, food, and water challenges in Africa'. To learn more about her work innovative work which addresses multiple sustainable development goals and planetary boundaries simultaneously, read the followinng blog piece. 🌎 https://lnkd.in/eQtE4uWv #EarthSystemScience #PlanetaryBoundaryScience #PlanetaryHealth

*Frontiers Planet Prize Awards Ceremony Highlights* Last week, in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, we hosted the annual Frontiers Planet Prize (FPP) Awards Ceremony with The Villars Institute. The event featured workshops, poster sessions, and intergenerational exchanges with Villars Fellows—high school students trained in systems leadership. Over three days, 100 FPP community members, including National Champions, jury members, and special guests, gathered to celebrate and support the mission of the prize: mobilizing the academic community to identify and recognize the most impactful solutions for bringing us back within the #safeoperatingspace of our planet. On June 26th, twenty-three National Champions, including three International Champions accompanied by their co-authors, were announced. This marked the end of the second edition of the prize, which engaged 475 leading research institutions and 20 National Academies across six continents. Watch this video to view highlights from the Award Ceremony event and stay tuned to hear more about the upcoming third edition of the prize! #planetaryboundaries #planetaryhealth https://lnkd.in/d5XKc78D

Addressing #urbanoverheating, a significant consequence of #climatechange, is paramount for sustainable urban development. Dr Umberto Berardi from Toronto Metropolitan University, National Champion of Canada, explores groundbreaking cooling materials in his research. Dive into his thought piece to understand how his findings inform #urbandevelopment decisions and heat mitigation strategies. https://lnkd.in/dcqBz-uD

The panel at our Awards Ceremony, 'How can planetary boundary research be shaped and amplified to influence policy and practice, enabling a sustainable future?', focused on exploring how the transformative power of systems-based research in planetary boundary science, which identifies potential pathways for solutions, can be leveraged to influence industry, economics, governance, and policy. Key takeaways from the panel: 👉 Scientists need to become actors outside the scientific community, specifically in the policy space, for their insights to be translated into real-world impact. This requires a two-way communication between scientists and policy makers. 👉 We need to train people in multiple stages of their career on the topic of sustainability so they can participate and learn from the latest scientific developments. 👉 What enables science to impact society is innovation and the innovation we need should be need-based, vision-driven and transformative. 👉 We need to promote the adoption of three core values along the science-innovation chain: caring, sharing, and daring Panelists: Johan Rockstrom, Director, PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Salvatore Aricò , Chief Executive Officer, International Science Council Massamba Thioye, Project Executive of the UN Climate Change Innovation Hub, UNFCCC UN Nicole Schwab, Co-Head, Nature Positive Pillar, World Economic Forum Celine Abecassis-Moedas, Professor and Dean for Executive Education, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics #EarthSystemScience #PlanetaryBoundaryScience #PlanetaryHealth #SciencePolicy The Villars Institute

It has been a fantastic day at Villars Palace full of transformational science, insights from planetary boundary science, and meaningful conversations. 🌎 Big congratulations once more to all the 2024 Frontiers Planet Prize International and National Champions, and thank you to all participants and speakers, and our hosting partner The Villars Institute. We look forward to the 3rd edition of Frontiers Planet Prize, launching this fall – stay tuned! 🏆 #EarthSystemScience #PlanetaryBoundaryScience #PlanetaryHealth #SciencePolicy

All three 2024 Frontiers Planet Prize International Champions, Prof Peter Haase, Dr Pedro Jaureguiberry, and Prof Jason Rohr, PhD on the stage at the Awards Ceremony with Jean-Claude Burgelman, Director of Frontiers Planet Prize, Prof Dr Johan Rockström, Chairperson of Jury of 100, and Kamila Markram and Henry Markram, co-founders of the Frontiers Research Foundation. We congratulate all International and National Champions and all of their co-authors once again for their transformational research in Earth system and planetary science! 🌎 🏆 Read more about the International Champions from this blog ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e5VvQj5p #EarthSystemScience #PlanetaryBoundaryScience #PlanetaryHealth The Villars Institute

The third and final 2024 Frontiers Planet Prize International Champion is Dr Pedro Jaureguiberry from Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Congratulations! Read more about Dr Jaureguiberry's winning research 'The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss' ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dhJSJPSa #Biodiversity #BiodiversityLoss #Biosphere #EarthSystemScience #PlanetaryBoundaryScience The Villars Institute

The next 2024 Frontiers Planet Prize International Champion is Prof Jason Rohr, PhD from University of Notre Dame, United States, accompanied by co-author Dr Alexandra Sack from University of Notre Dame. Their research focuses on a planetary health innovation for disease, food, and water challenges in Africa. Congratulations! Read more about Prof Rohr's and Dr Sack's winning research 'A planetary health innovation for disease, food, and water challenges in Africa' ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eQtE4uWv #EarthSystemScience #PlanetaryBoundaryScience #PlanetaryHealth The Villars Institute