Goals
The primary objective is to improve understanding of past changes in the Earth System in order to improve projections of future climate and environment, and inform strategies for sustainability. PAGES supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions for the future. It encourages international and interdisciplinary collaborations and seeks to involve scientists from developing countries in the worldwide paleo-community. PAGES' scope of interest includes the physical climate system, biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem processes, biodiversity, and human dimensions, on different time scales — Pleistocene, Holocene, last millennium and the recent past. PAGES itself is not a research institution, but rather helps to develop common international science directions to ensure that important scientific questions are addressed in a coherent manner. Based on input from its multidisciplinary community, PAGES works to identify and understand those aspects of past climate and environmental change that are of greatest significance for the future of human societies.
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