In preparation for the 2023 UN Water Conference, the International Science Council has released its latest policy brief providing recommendations for actionable and science-based solutions on pressing water issues.
15.03.2023
On 24 and 25 October 2022, an ISC delegation is in New York City for a stakeholder consultation and a preparatory meeting for the UN Water Conference that will take place in March 2023.
24.10.2022
On the occasion of World Water Day, our members and partners bring attention to a wide range of social and environmental issues concerning freshwater.
22.03.2022
For centuries, pastoralist communities have herded animals across arid plains in Ethiopia and Kenya, guided by the sacred wells that quenched their ancestors’ thirst in times of drought. The wells are enduring markers in a land of mobile clans and erratic weather, where heat waves may become more extreme and water availability less predictable due to the effects of climate change.
03.12.2021
Anyone can be a citizen scientist and assist in capturing data that will help research. In this guest post, Jacqueline Goldin writes about a project in Limpopo where farmers are helping to collect data.
15.03.2021
<span>Integrating Indigenous worldviews into natural resource management can offer alternative solutions to restore degraded ecosystems. A new 'knowledge brief' from the Transformations to Sustainability programme explores how Western and Indigenous knowledge systems can coexist and be integrated for more sustainable water management. In this blog, ISC intern Husam Ibrahim takes a closer look at the issues.</span>
20.10.2020
<p><a href="http://waterinstitute.unc.edu/">The Water Institute</a> at the University of North Carolina has announced that the second Nexus Conference on the theme of Water, Food, Energy and Climate will take place 16-18 April 2018 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.</p>
01.08.2017
<p>A unique initiative endorsed by the International Council for Science – Sustainable Deltas 2015 – (SD2015) launched today at the <a href="http://www.climatedeltaconference2014.org">‘Deltas in Times of Climate Change II International Conference’</a> in Rotterdam. The aim of the initiative is to focus attention and research on the value and vulnerability of deltas worldwide, and promote and enhance international and regional cooperation among scientists, policymakers and other stakeholders.</p>
25.09.2014
