The Role of Integrated Science in Understanding the Earth-Human System
As COP27 begins, Motoko Kotani writes that the need for international, transdisciplinary sustainability sciences has reached a new level of urgency
07.11.2022
In the face of extreme weather events, coordinated global action to address climate change is needed at COP27
A few days away from the beginning of COP27, Dr Marlene Kanga analyzes the increasingly extreme weather events unfolding in Australia, underlining the urgency to act on climate and calling for immediate coordinated global action to tackle the most crucial existential challenge of our time.
04.11.2022
Open science round-up: October 2022
Jenice Goveas rounds up the latest open science news from the month of October, which is notable for the annual Open Access week.
03.11.2022
Perspectives from the ISC network on expectations for the COP
With COP27 around the corner and current trends indicating that containing the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C becomes increasingly unlikely, Anna Davies underlines the need for better climate adaptation processes to bridge the value-action gap relating to environmental challenges.
02.11.2022
Professor Carlos Lopes on why Africa needs to stick to renewables despite the temptation of gas
Africa has immense renewable energy potential. But a significant increase in finance, accompanied by a shift in mindsets, is needed to strengthen the business case for renewables, writes ISC Fellow Carlos Lopes.
28.10.2022
How can scientists make a difference at COP27?
With many decisions to be made at COP prepared months or even years in advance, the science community has limited leverage to change the path of negotiations once the conference begins. Yet scientists can still exert pressure by sharing their knowledge with the wider community, speaking with the media, and - in that way -generate pressure on those countries who don’t show ambition, says ISC Governing Board Member Martin Visbeck.
26.10.2022
Track 2 science diplomacy for ocean protection – Speech by Peter Gluckman
Discover an extract from ISC President Peter Gluckman’s keynote address to the Grand Ocean Forum in October 2022 in Cherbourg, France.
20.10.2022
Frontiers Planet Prize: Science for a Sustainable Planet
The International Science Council thanks for your contributions to the Frontiers Planet Prize. The applications have now closed.
20.10.2022
5 Key Takeaways from NASEM’s Webinar: ‘Censorship and the Right to Information during the Pandemic’
Chaired by the ISC’s Vivi Stavrou and run by the U.S National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, we look at the webinar’s key points of discussion.
19.10.2022
Poverty – or the death of Zaw Lin Oo
On The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the Director of the Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP) Don Kalb, reflects on the current state of social inequality at the global scale.
17.10.2022