<p>Robert Watson will chair the committee, which will provide strategic guidance to <a href="http://www.futureearth.org">Future Earth</a> on how to engage stakeholders and ensure that the Future Earth science agenda is informed by user perspectives. It will also work on the establishment of the permanent Engagement Committee.</p>
21.10.2013
<p>In April 2013, ICSU co-sponsored a young scientists networking conference on interdisciplinary research into future food systems. In this video, released today for <a href="http://www.fao.org/world-food-day/2016/home/en">World Food Day</a>, participants of the conference explain their vision.</p>
16.10.2013
<p>ICSU’s latest 10-year global research programme, “Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: a Systems Analysis Approach” has started early development of projects in Asia.</p>
26.09.2013
<p>Interested parties are invited in this first stage of a three-step process to express their interest in hosting the permanent secretariat for Future Earth by 23 September.</p>
26.09.2013
<p>The ICSU GeoUnions, the <a href="https://www.fig.net/jbgis/">Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies</a> (JBGIS), the <a href="http://www.unoosa.org">United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs</a> (UNOOSA) and the <a href="http://www.un-spider.org/about/publication/un-platform-space-based-information-disaster-management-and-emergency-response">United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response</a> (UN-SPIDER) published earlier this month a new report which looks at the benefits of applying Geoinformation to disaster management.</p>
06.09.2013
<p>We have just published the ICSU Annual Report for 2012, detailing all our activities in the past year.</p>
28.08.2013
<p><a href="http://www.futureearth.org">Future Earth</a>, the ambitious new research initiative on global sustainability, has just launched an online magazine, designed to provide insight into the latest research in this area.</p>
16.07.2013
<p>Following recent developments in Russia, including proposed legislation that would threaten the independence of the <a href="http://www.ras.ru/en/index.aspx">Russian Academy of Sciences</a>, ICSU’s <a href="https://www.icsu.org/about-us/governance/committees/committee-on-freedom-and-responsibility-in-the-conduct-of-science-cfrs">Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the Conduct of Science</a> (CFRS) has expressed its support for an independent, merit-based Russian Academy.</p>
10.07.2013
<p>The International Council for Science (ICSU), on behalf of the <a href="http://www.stalliance.org">Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability</a>, announced today that Professor Frans Berkhout will be the Interim Director of Future Earth.</p>
01.07.2013
<p>The science committee will provide scientific guidance, ensure scientific quality and guide the development of new projects.</p>
17.06.2013