CAS- Climate: Conference: TIPARDIS 2024-25: Sustainability in the Age of Climate Change

跨印度、太平洋和大西洋可持续发展研究与发展交流会（TIPARDIS）是一个关于人类面临的主要挑战：可持续发展的会议。会议将在印度举行，由孟买印度理工学院（IIT Bombay）主办。与会者将来自美国、欧洲、印度，或许还有其他地方。NSF基金将支持美国研究人员的参与。预计匈牙利政府将为欧洲参与者提供支持，印度的资源来源将为印度的研究人员提供支持。从本质上讲，可持续发展体现了人们努力寻找方法，使人类尽可能长时间地以文明的方式在地球上生存。考虑到78亿人口，这一目标本身就是一项艰巨的挑战。但这一挑战必须在面对气候变化等新出现的威胁时予以应对。在地方一级，这些紧急的全球威胁可能表现为洪水、干旱、热浪、野火和经济困境等重大破坏性事件。会议将以以下五个重点问题为指导，重点了解和制定解决这些非常复杂和紧迫问题的办法：面对加速的气候变化，哪些地球要素可能是可控的？2. 面对加速的气候变化，这些行星要素中哪一个不太可能是可控的？3. 哪些行星要素应该作为技术问题来管理？4. 应该通过法律和政策来处理哪些行星要素？5. 机器学习和人工智能能帮助促进可持续发展吗？参与者的主体将是平衡的，包括学科（工程、物理、化学、经济、政策等）、机构（学术、政府、私营部门）以及地区和国家代表方面的足够代表性。将鼓励少数民族和妇女参与。会议将产生两份报告：(1)总结结果和结论以及介绍情况的最后报告；(2)侧重于政策并适合在主办组织内使用的简要摘要。此外，已经建立了一个WIKI网站，目前正在填充相关信息，作为会议准备的背景。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Trans Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Research and Development Interchange on Sustainability (TIPARDIS) is a conference on the dominant challenge facing humanity: sustainability. The conference will be held in India, with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) hosting. Participants will be drawn from the U.S, Europe, India, and perhaps elsewhere. NSF funds will support participation by U.S. researchers. It is expected that the Hungarian Government will provide support for European participants and that sources in India will provide support for researchers in India. At its core, sustainability embodies efforts to find ways that make it possible for humanity to exist in a civilized manner on the Earth for as long as possible. This objective is by itself a formidable challenge given the 7.8 billion human population. But this challenge must be met in the face of emergent threats such as climate change and others. At the local level, these emergent global threats can manifest as major disruption events like floods, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, and economic distress. The conference will focus on the understanding and the formulation of solutions for these very complex and urgent issues guided by five focus questions: 1. Which planetary elements are likely to be manageable in the face of accelerating climate change? 2. Which of these planetary elements is not likely to be manageable in the face of accelerating climate change? 3. Which planetary elements should be managed as technical problems? 4. Which planetary elements should be approached through law and policy? 5. Can Machine Learning and AI help foster sustainability? The body of participants will be balanced to include adequate representation with respect to discipline (engineering, physics, chemistry, economics, policy, etc.), institutions (academic, government, private sector), and regional and national representation. Minorities and women will be encouraged to participate. From the conference, two reports will be produced: (1) a final report summarizing the results and conclusions and the presentations, and (2) a briefer summary focused on policy and suitable for use within the sponsoring organizations. Additionally, a WIKI site has been established and is currently being populated with relevant information as background in preparation for the conference.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.