New Contract Between Science and Society Critical For Ensuring Sustainability
<p>Broad consensus around human-induced global challenges means little unless science takes more active role in sustainability debates</p>
18.06.2012
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Future Earth: New global platform for sustainability research launched at Rio+20
<p>A new 10-year international initiative to deliver solution oriented research for sustainability in partnership with society.</p>
14.06.2012
Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development prior to Rio+20
<p>The Forum brings together leading international scientists, policy-makers and other stakeholders to explore the key role of interdisciplinary science and innovation in the transition to sustainable development, a green economy and poverty eradication. The aim is to help establish the research, technology and policy agendas that will be needed after <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20">Rio+20</a>.</p>
01.06.2012
ICSU’s new World Data System opens new International Progamme Office in Tokyo
<p>ICSU’s new <a href="https://www.icsu.org/what-we-do/research-programmes/data-and-information/world-data-system-wds">World Data System</a> (WDS) opened its new office in Tokyo on May 9 in an official ceremony in the presence of the Hon. Tatsuo Kawabata, Japanese Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, and Prof. Yuan Tseh-Lee, President of the International Council for Science (ICSU).</p>
16.05.2012
International Programme Office of ICSU’s new World Data System opened
<p>The International Programme Office of ICSU’s new World Data System (WDS) was opened officially in Tokyo on Wednesday 9 May.</p>
09.05.2012
ICSU President Yuan Tseh Lee opens International Polar Year Conference
<p>ICSU President Yuan Tseh Lee was present at the opening ceremony of <a href="http://www.ipy.org/">International Polar Year</a> conference in Montreal on 23 April , 2012. In his speech, he celebrated IPY as a triumph of global science, in that coordination was first led by ICSU and the <a href="https://www.wmo.int/">WMO</a>, and subsequently the global science community took hold and assumed ownership of IPY.</p>
03.05.2012
Government of Malaysia and ICSU sign five-year agreement to host ICSU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
<p>The signing of the supplementary agreement between ICSU and the Government of Malaysia took place in Kuala Lumpur on Friday 27 April 2012.</p>
03.05.2012
ICSU expresses concern at restrictions on higher education for women in Iran
<p>The International Council for Science (ICSU) has expressed concern over the Iranian government’s recent decision to <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-19665615">deny Iranian women undergraduates’ access to 77 fields of study</a> in a range of scientific and non-scientific disciplines.</p>
29.04.2012
Highlights of the State of the Planet Declaration
<p>The International Council for Science was a sponsor of Planet Under Pressure, a four-day conference in London which brought together more than 3,000 experts to assess the state of the planet and explore solutions to impending social and environmental crises. At the close of the conference, a final declaration was issued, with a view to informing the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in June, 2012.</p>
17.04.2012
Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) to meet in Panama
<p>The <a href="https://www.ipbes.net/">Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services</a> (IPBES) is a new international platform for scientists and policy makers. It is to some extent modelled on the <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/">Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change</a> (IPCC) and will have a similar integrated science assessment function. ICSU and its programmes for biodiversity (DIVERSITAS) and the human dimensions of environmental change (IHDP) have been strong advocates for IPBES.</p>
13.04.2012