Strategic Plan 2004-2010

Annex 1

ICSU’s Requirements of its Environmental Committees including SCAR (as adopted by ICSU’s Executive Board at its 88th meeting on 11-12 February 2004).

Identify emerging issues, including potential problems and solutions, where scientific knowledge and research can make a difference;
Catalyze and coordinate scientific research programmes in the domain of the environment that: i. Expand understanding of the interactions between biogeochemical and physical processes and their social causes and impacts, and ii. Underpin environmental protection and conservation, and addresses the need for economic and social development;
Contribute to the development of monitoring activities that are essential for documenting the state of the global system and its components;
Ensure that the relevant social sciences are fully integrated into the design and implementation of ICSU's programmes;
Stimulate collaboration with stakeholders in developing research agendas and communicating results from research of relevance to the development of appropriate policies;
Contribute to environmental assessments;
Develop mechanisms to ensure that results from policy-relevant research benefit the governmental and private sectors as well as civil society;
Catalyze new types of effective collaborations/partnerships within the ICSU family and with others; and
Promote the synthesis and communication of the policy-relevant work conducted by ICSU's Scientific Unions, National Members, Interdisciplinary Bodies and Joint Initiatives.