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Background Worldwide there is increasing awareness of the global challenges that face us all – ranging from preventing conflict, to feeding an expanding population, to helping the poor, to fostering health, and protecting the environment in particular global warming and ecosystem degradation. These challenges are at the heart of sustainable development – meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable development is about alleviating poverty and narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor while ensuring the sustainable functioning of the Earth’s ecosystems. It is apparent that if we are to find new and imaginative solutions to these problems, all the countries and peoples of the world will need to work together. Malaysia and the individual countries in the South-East Asian region have made a strong commitment to international efforts to prevent further irreversible environmental change and to promote sustainable development by becoming party to numerous Multi-lateral Agreements such as Agenda 21, the Rio conventions (1992), Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, 2000) and Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (WSSD- JPOI, 2002) - all of which emphasise the need for development to be more sustainable, particularly in developing nations with limited natural resources and skill base. Among these, the MDGs, focus on the central challenges of our time. At its core are the eight Development Goals, which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all to be met by the target date of 2015. They form a set of simple but powerful objectives that every man and woman in the street, from Brasilia to New York to Putrajaya and Penang, can easily support and understand. Each of society’s stakeholders; political, business, civil society, media and higher educational institutions has a role to play here. Universities are expected to make investments in their curricula, research and outreach. There is increasing global acknowledgement that building capacity for making decisions that consider the long-term future of economy, ecology and equity is a key task of education. USM, in particular, should be in the forefront to assess the situation and find new and imaginative solutions to these problems. Specifically it should position itself in addressing these problems at the local/ national and regional levels. Mission The mission of CGSS@USM is to contribute, through education for sustainable development, scientific assessment, policy research and capacity-building, to efforts to resolve pressing problems confronting Malaysian society and the global community today and in the future. One of the top priorities of the CGSS@USM is in addressing the problems of global change such as global warming and degradation of biodiversity and ecosystem services
and how these changes would impact on the socio-economic wellbeing of developing countries. The Centre is also focusing on the plight of the bottom billions through improvement in ecosystem services upon which the poor depends (water, energy, health, agriculture and biodiversity - WEHAB). An important research component at the Centre is the elucidation of what constitute a sustainability university. CGSS@USM intends to provide a strong institutional framework which could be a conduit between science and policy; to forge and promote a dialogue between the academic community and the policymakers in an effort to formulate better national policies, strategies and programmes. CGSS@USM is envisaged as an international centre. It will bring together international expertise as well as knowledge from within USM and Malaysia. It will adopt a multidisciplinary approach to research problems. It will engage experts from traditional disciplines such as economics, education, law, biology, political science, physics and chemistry and ask them to pool their specific knowledge and expertise in a focused attempt to understand and resolve some of the key challenges to sustainable development. Vision An Advanced Studies Centre to propel Universiti Sains Malaysia as a renowned sustainability-lead university based on the fusion of the sciences and humanities in our strive for global sustainability and poverty alleviation of the bottom billions. Key role • Serve as a forum for dialogue and creative new ideas. • Serve as a hub for the international community of scholars. • Serve as a bridge between the national and international academic community on one hand and the policymakers, the corporate sector and civil society on the other. • Contribute to capacity building, particularly in Malaysia and the developing countries, focusing on individual, institutional and systemic capacity concerns. • To internalise the power of the principles and practices of education for sustainable development as the best means for building capacity and changing the mindset
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