重大科学计划发布
Initiative For International Scientific Cooperation Project of Mapping the Chemical Earth
May 13, 2016
Langfang, China
Workshop of Mapping the Chemical Earth
We are facing critical challenges for solving environmental pollution and shortage of natural resources. There is a clear need for a long-term systematic and authoritative geochemical data at an appropriate resolution for visualization at the global-scale. It's a high time we take actions to implement an international scientific cooperation project on documenting global-scale geochemical data.
The International Centre on Global-scale Geochemistry under auspices of UNESCO and China Government initiates the International Scientific Cooperation Project on Mapping the Chemical Earth.
The research project is initiated in accordance with:
●UN resolution "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" ;
● UNESCO Medium-Term Strategy (2014-2021). The article 51 of Strategic Objectives of the UNESCO Medium-Term Strategy declares "Building on its experience in leading intergovernmental and international science programmes and bodies and on their global observation capacities, UNESCO will contribute to shaping the research agenda of global and regional scientific cooperation";
●The State Five-Year Plan of the People's Republic of China on the innovative development of "Leading international big science or engineering projects".
The project objectives are:
●To establish Global Geochemical Baselines of 76 Elements based on around 20000 network grid cells for quantifying global environmental changes and natural resources.
●To develop a Global Geochemical Observation Network at the delta of world's large rivers for documenting changes of elements in lithosphere, pedosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere of Critical Zones.
●To make a preliminary assessment of global mineral resources based on 20000 baselines data sets of around 50 elements.
●To make a preliminary assessment of environmental risk and changes based on baseline data of potentially hazardous elements.
●To explore for knowledge of major historic geological events, such as extinction, ancient climate changes based on trace elements.
●To compile the Silk Road Geochemical Atlas in cooperation with the countries along “the Belt and Road”.
●To develop a digital Chemical Earth platform allowing anyone to access vast amounts of geochemical data and maps through the Internet.
China via China Geological Survey, Ministry of Land and Resources and will support and sponsor the project. The project will be implemented through an international cooperation network of UNESCO and its country members, international scientific organizations of the IUGS and scientists. All the countries are welcome to participate in the project and share the data achieved by the project.
The importance of the International Scientific Cooperation Project of Mapping the Chemical Earth is well recognized by the international scientific community and supported by all scientific and management participants in the Workshop of Mapping the Chemical Earth.