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International Years and Decades

The ISC endorses or co-sponsors and participates actively in many international scientific events, including International Years or Decades of Science initiated and implemented by ISC Members, the United Nations, and partners.
2024 – 2033

Proposed by the UN with UNESCO to implement with stakeholders such as the ISC and its international scientific unions. Reporting will occur in 2026, 2029 and 2032.

Beautiful reef and orange fish in Okinawa sea.
2021 – 2030

Organized under the leadership of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

2032-2033

Organized under the leadership of the International Arctic the Science Committee (IASC) and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Read the blog ➡️

Soil in man's hand
2015 – 2024

Soil health and its sustainable management is critically important in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations


Past international years and decades

2022 – 2023

Organized under the leadership of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)

Križna Cave Slovenia
2021 – 2022

Organized by the International Union of Speleology (UIS) to inform the world of the great value of caves to humanity

Nara, Japan, Boy bangs a gong.
2020 – 2021

A global initiative to highlight the importance of sound and related sciences and technologies for all in society

2020

Inspiring people to learn more about plant health, which we all depend on, and to take concrete action

periodic table
2019

The development of the Periodic Table of the Elements is one of the most significant achievements in science.

Upside down lightbulbs
2015

Raising public awareness of the importance of photonics (the science and technology of generating, controlling and detecting photons, or light particles)

Polar bear mother with two cubs waiting on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska for the see ice to come
2007 – 2008

Sponsored by ICSU and the WMO, it became the largest coordinated research program in the Earth’s polar regions.

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