Future Earth will have a new global governance body and secretariat, building on the strengths of the existing core global environmental change programme, which are co-sponsored by ICSU and other members of the Alliance.
The SESAME building was handed over to SESAME earlier this year and the Secretariat of SESAME, which was previously operating from the premises of UNESCO Amman, is now fully installed there.
It also aims to draw up a regional media capacity building strategy for which additional resources will be mobilised in close collaboration with the ICGLR Secretariat.
Building on USAID technical assistance working with the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Youth (SOMY) and ASEAN Secretariat, the U.S. government will continue to support the launch of the AYVP in 2013.