Global change research needs international collaboration

Ulf Büntgen; Gareth Rees

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166054

Global change research needs international collaboration

Sci Total Environ. 2023 Dec 1:902:166054. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166054. Epub 2023 Aug 4.

Authors

Ulf Büntgen¹, Gareth Rees²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK; Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CzechGlobe), 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic; Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL), 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland; Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic. Electronic address: ulf.buentgen@geog.cam.ac.uk.
² Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK; Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK; Department of Technology and Safety, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, 9019 Tromsø, Norway.

PMID: 37543344
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166054

Abstract

Tackling the grand challenges of global climate change for the sustainability of ecological and societal systems requires data and expertise from Russia, the world's largest country that has the longest Arctic shoreline and the largest forest biome, peatland and permafrost zones. Academic relations and scientific collaborations with Russian scholars and institutions must continue despite the ensuing geopolitical crisis since 2022.

Keywords: Arctic Council; Boreal forest; Climate change; Diplomatic soft power; Global crises; Open science.