International Science Council

#UNOC3: Through its multidisciplinary #ocean expert group, the ISC has developed a set of science-based priorities to guide discussions at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference and inform the Ocean Declaration: https://lnkd.in/eeVMueQz. These priorities highlight the most pressing ocean challenges and aim to ensure that discussions and outcomes are anchored in the latest and most robust scientific knowledge: 🔹 Recognizing the tipping points: The ocean is facing unprecedented stress from climate change, #pollution and overexploitation, pushing ecosystems toward collapse and risking irreversible consequences. 🔹 Transforming governance: Current fragmented and ineffective approaches must give way to coordinated, science-based ocean governance that aligns policy and economic incentives with long-term sustainability. 🔹 Strengthening ocean #science and early warning systems: Increased investment in ocean science, observation, and early-warning systems is vital to better understand and protect the ocean, avoiding potential irreversible damage. 🔹 Supporting vulnerable communities: Coastal communities, particularly in #SIDS, are on the frontlines of ocean change and face growing risks from rising seas and extreme #weather events. Immediate and sustained investments in coastal resilience, ocean conservation and adaptation efforts are essential. 🔹Closing the ocean #finance gap: Long-term ocean health and resilience depend on urgent increases in public and private investment. UNOC-3 must secure sustainable financing, mobilize new funding sources, and enhance international cooperation to support conservation, adaptation and equitable ocean management - especially in vulnerable regions. ⚠️ UNOC-3 must deliver on: • Science-based commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions #GHGs and protect marine ecosystems; • Coordinated and ecosystem-based approach to ocean governance, aligning economic and policy incentives with ocean #conservation and protection; • Stronger global capacity for ocean science and #monitoring; • Stronger commitments and investment in #coastal resilience, ocean conservation and adaptation efforts; • Scaled-up, sustained and equitable ocean #finance to match the scale of the challenge. ➡️ The International Science Council extends its sincere appreciation to the members of the ISC Ocean Expert Group for their leadership in drafting these priorities. Their work provides a critical scientific foundation to support evidence-informed outcomes at UNOC-3 and advance coordinated, ambitious action for ocean sustainability. With: Peter Haugan Lynne Shannon Kwame Adu Agyekum Valérie Masson-Delmotte Michelle Mycoo Fangli Qiao Awnesh Singh Sabrina Speich Mia Strand Ussif Rashid Sumaila Ilka Peeken Maritza Cárdenas Calle #UNOceanConference #SDG14 #OceanScience #OceanResilience #OceanAction #Sustainability #ClimateChange

The importance of #ScienceAnticipation GESDA’s Daria Robinson and Shabon Jones met with Sir Peter Gluckman, President of the International Science Council (ISC), and Salvatore Aricò, ISC CEO, to explore synergies in establishing science as a trusted partner in multilateral decision-making. With growing fragmentation in science and rapid political shifts shaping its future, collaboration is more crucial than ever. By joining forces, we can help world leaders anticipate risks and recognize the power of science in addressing today’s and tomorrow’s global challenges.

💬 At the opening debate of the UNESCO Global Ministerial Dialogue on #ScienceDiplomacy, ISC President Peter Gluckman called for stronger collaboration across governments, multilateral agencies, and the scientific community. In his remarks, he stressed the need to: 🔹 Prioritize the global commons in foreign policy, by ensuring that governments see it as being in their own national interest to invest in shared global challenges—from climate to health to digital governance. 🔹 Bridge the gap between science and diplomacy, including through closer coordination between ministries of science and foreign affairs, and by appointing science advisors in diplomatic contexts. 🔹 Strengthen non-partisan scientific cooperation, with international science organizations like the ISC acting as neutral brokers of knowledge, able to convene diverse actors and support multilateral processes—even in times of geopolitical tension. The International Science Council (ISC) has a unique role to play - as non-partisan brokers of scientific knowledge and cooperation - to help bridge divides and advance collective progress. 🔗 Learn more about our science diplomacy work : https://lnkd.in/eZi9pmET

📆 #Webinar | 3 April: How are countries integrating #AI into science systems? Join the ISC Centre for Science Futures for a webinar exploring the evolving role of AI in national research systems – and what’s needed to prepare for the future. Read more about the webinar and register ⏬ https://lnkd.in/gpEfQtae

💡 How ready are national research systems to harness the power of #AI? At the latest ISC workshop in Muscat, high-level experts from across the Middle East, Africa and beyond came together to share insights on AI preparedness in #science – from funding and infrastructure to ethics and policy. https://lnkd.in/euFfbt2V #AIpreparedness

💧 Today, 22 March, is #WorldWaterDay — a moment to reflect on the essential role of #water and the urgent need to manage it equitably and responsibly. In a special blog post, Bapon Shm Fakhruddin, PhD explores how #water can act as a catalyst for synergies across the three Rio Conventions on #climatechange, #biodiversity, and #desertification. https://lnkd.in/eAUtR_MK

Today marks the inaugural World Day for #Glaciers and the launch of the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences (2025-2034). Emphasizing the urgent need for global cooperation to address the rapid melting of glaciers, ice sheets, and #permafrost, both the Day and Decade were created to bring scientists, policy-makers and communities together to find solutions. Read more here: 🔗https://lnkd.in/efa6V-9y #WorldGlacierDay #ClimateAction #Cryosphere #WorldWaterDay #WaterDay #SDG6

Congratulations to Encieh Erfani, ISC Fellow, on receiving the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. A cosmologist from Iran, Dr. Erfani resigned from her faculty position in solidarity with the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests and continues to advocate for at-risk scholars. Now based at the Perimeter Institute in Canada, she remains a powerful voice for academic freedom. At the ISC, defending and promoting the free and responsible practice of science is central to our mission. Through our Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science (CFRS), we work to uphold these principles, recognizing that scientific freedom and responsibility go hand in hand in ensuring science serves as a global public good: https://lnkd.in/eWsazYQC

📢 Call for nominations: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is inviting nominations of experts to serve in the Task Group on Data Support for Climate Change Assessments (TG-Data) and for coordinating authors and review editors for the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7). For more information ⬇️ 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gVDPRJQe 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gTMQMR5x

The ISC and UNESCO recently hosted a meeting to explore new funding mechanisms for actionable #science under the umbrella of the UN Decade of Sciences for Sustainability (2024–2033). Following the meeting, ISC Director Vanessa McBride reflects on the key challenges and opportunities in funding missions-oriented research. Read her insights: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eM3iu4ET #sciencefunding #sustainability #sciencemissions