<p>This year’s High Level Political Forum at the United Nations was the first-ever in-depth review of selected Sustainable Development Goals: poverty, food and agriculture, health, gender, oceans, resilient infrastructure, and means of implementation.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
17.07.2017
<p>Following a call for review, the memberships of both the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the <a href="http://www.worldsocialscience.org">International Social Science Council</a> (ISSC) provided instructive and considered feedback on the draft high-level strategy proposals for a new merged organization representing all the sciences. Feedback was received from 27 members representing 16 countries in response to the publication of the draft strategy in March.</p>
13.07.2017
<p>Scientists, policy practitioners and key stakeholders in Latin America met in Buenos Aires to discuss ways to provide science advice and to devise practices for working at the interface between science and policy.</p>
10.07.2017
<p>As the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) opens in New York from 10 – 19 July, the Council will be hosting a side event to present our new report “<a href="https://www.icsu.org/publications/a-guide-to-sdg-interactions-from-science-to-implementation">A Guide to SDG Interactions: From Science to Implementation</a>,” which looks at which clusters of goals and targets work together- and which do not.</p>
10.07.2017
<p>Registration is now open for the 32nd ICSU General Assembly. National and Union Members, Scientific Associates, Interdisciplinary Bodies, Joint Initiatives and Policy Committees, as well as partner organizations are invited to join us for the event which will be held in Taipei on 23-26 October 2017.</p>
06.07.2017
<p>ICSU ROLAC was invited to the the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) held its 43rd meeting of the Executive Council (EC)– 25th Conference of the Parties (CoP) in Bogotá, Colombia.</p>
05.07.2017
<p>This model aims to modify the environment where people live, play and work to influence the social determinants of health.</p>
04.07.2017
<p>Nearly 30 world leading experts on urbanisation will gather in London next week for the inaugural meeting of the new UCL-<em>Nature Sustainability</em> Expert Panel to discuss new recommendations on strengthening the urban science policy interface to support the implementation of SDG 11 and the New Urban Agenda.</p>
26.06.2017
<p>A selected group of researchers from El Salvador attended a seminar about project management and scientific collaboration on May 30th, 2017.</p>
23.06.2017
<p>The United Nations Ocean Conference which took place in New York from June 5-9 was the first international conference dedicated to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 on conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and maritime resources for sustainable development.</p>
15.06.2017
