Related reports

Within the context of advancing mission-oriented science, the ISC in collaboration with expert groups, has produced several flagship reports. These address the imperative to fund and approach SDG-related science differently to steer humanity and the planet toward lasting global sustainability.

Related reports

These reports outline strategies for enhancing the contribution of science to expedite societal transformation towards sustainability in the 21st century.

Flipping the Science Model: A Roadmap to Science Missions for Sustainability 

This report, developed by the Global Commission on Science Missions for Sustainability,  describes and advocates for mission science for sustainability as an urgently needed new form of science for the SDGs. It also serves as a call, inviting all stakeholders, to unite with the science community in this endeavour of collectively catalyzing science’s power to drive transformative action towards a more sustainable world for all. 

Cover of the "Flipping the Science Model" report

Flipping the Science Model

International Science Council, 2023. Flipping the science model: a roadmap to science missions for sustainability, Paris, France, International Science Council. DOI: 10.24948/2023.08.


A Model for Implementing Mission Science for Sustainability

In its report, the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) proposes a model to set priorities for mission science for sustainability. Based on a co-design process, it details the core principles and institutional, governance and funding arrangements needed to accelerate our progress on the path towards sustainability. 

A Model for Implementing Mission Science for Sustainability

International Science Council, 2023. A Model for Implementing Mission Science for Sustainability, Paris, France, International Science Council.
DOI: 10.24948/2023.09.


Unleashing Science: Delivering Missions for Sustainability

The report Unleashing Science: Delivering Missions for Sustainability presents a framework of ideas on how science, along with science funders, policy-makers, civil society and the private sector, could increase the impact of science towards achieving the SDGs and rise to the occasion of acting effectively in the face of urgent and existential risks to humanity.

Cover of the publication Unleashing Science

Unleashing Science: Delivering Missions for Sustainability

The report offers a comprehensive framework outlining strategies for enhancing the impact of science in collaboration with science funders, policymakers, civil society, and the private sector to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and effectively address urgent existential risks facing humanity.


A Synthesis of Research Gaps

The report A Synthesis of Research Gaps aims for science to enable societies to accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The report provides valuable insights on research gaps and priorities which, if pursued, could support the impact that the Sustainability Science Missions seek to accomplish. The report A Synthesis of Research Gaps aims for science to enable societies to accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The report provides valuable insights on research gaps and priorities which, if pursued, could support the impact that the Sustainability Science Missions seek to accomplish.

A Synthesis of Research Gaps

For science to enable societies to accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.


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