The following section lists only those UN organizations with which ICSU most frequently cooperates.

• Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)
• Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
• Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)
• International Telecomunication Union (ITU)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations University (UNU)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)

Secretary : J.DiSano

Coordinator/Major : F.Pietracci

Groups Programme :

CSD Secretariat
Division for Sustainable Development
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
2, UN Plaza, Room DC2-2220
New-York, NY 10017, USA

Tel: +1 212 963 2803
Fax: +1 212 963 4260
E-mail: beyondwssd un.org

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Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)

Under-Secretary-General : J.A. Ocampo

United Nations
One United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 100017, USA

Tel: +1 212 963 5958
Fax: +1 212 963 1010
Email: esaun.org

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Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

In 1971 ICSU was granted Category II status with the Economic and Social Council after having been on the Roster for a number of years.

Director: S.Khan

Division for ECOSOC Support & Coordination
Department of Economic & Social Affairs
One United Nations Plaza, Room DC1-1428
New York, NY 100017, USA

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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

In August 1963 the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization granted ICSU specialized consultative status. FAO participated in the International Biological Programme, particularly in the work of the Sectional Committees on Marine Productivity and Freshwater Productivity. During the course of 1968 an Inter-Secretariat Liaison Group was set up by FAO and the Special Committee for the International Biological Programme (SC-IBP). SC-IBP and FAO were particularly active in drawing attention to the need for the conservation of plant and animal genetic resources. Co-operation with SCOR is especially close, particularly in relation to Studies on the Resources of the Sea.

Director General: J. Diouf

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome, Italy

Tel: +39 06 57053150
Fax: +39 06 5705 3152
E-mail: telex-roomfao.org

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

ICSU was granted consultative status with the International Atomic Energy Agency in January 1960 that has allowed an increasingly close co-operation between the two organizations during the past years. Relations have been established by the Agency with a number of members of the ICSU family on items of mutual interest.

Director-General: M. El Baradei

IAEA
Wagramerstrasse 5, P.O. Box 100
A-1400 Vienna, Austria

Tel: +43 1 2600-0
Fax: +43 1 26007
E-mail: official.mailiaea.org

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International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)

Director: S. Briceño

ISDR, Palais Wilson
52 rue des Pâquis
1201 Geneva, Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 917 9711
Fax: +41 22 917 9098/99
E-mail: isdrun.org

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International Telecomunication Union (ITU)

A working agreement was arranged in 1962 between ICSU and the International Radio Consultative Committee (which became the Radiocommunication Bureau in 1993) of the International Telecommunication Union. The relations between the two organizations are established through the ICSU Scientific Committee on Frequency Allocations for Radio Astronomy and Space Science (IUCAF), which participates actively in the World Administrative Radio Conferences (WARC).

Secretary-General: Y. Utsumi

ITU, Place des Nations
1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 730 5111
Fax: +41 22 733 7256
E-mail: itumailitu.int

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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Administrator: M.M. Brown

UNDP
One United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017, USA

Tel: +1 212 906 5791
Fax: +1 212 906 5778
E-mail: mark.malloch.brownundp.org

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UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Immediately on the formation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1946, a formal agreement was concluded between ICSU and UNESCO, and later the Executive Board of UNESCO, at its 60th Session (October/November 1961) decided to admit ICSU to Consultative and Associate status (Category A).
From 1947 until 1996, ICSU received a yearly Subvention from UNESCO, the totality of which was always used to support those activities of ICSU bodies which furthered UNESCO’s objectives. This arrangement has now changed.
Following the adoption of the new Directives concerning UNESCO’s relations with non-governmental organizations at the 28th session of its General Conference in November 1995, the Executive Board of UNESCO, at its 149th Session, admitted ICSU into Formal Associate Relations with UNESCO.
In line with this arrangement, ICSU and UNESCO signed a Framework Agreement establishing the general framework of cooperation between the two organizations for the period 1996-2001. In accordance with this Agreement, ICSU agreed to undertake certain tasks contributing to the attainment of both organizations’ objectives. The financial arrangements under this Agreement were governed by annual contracts
from UNESCO.
A second Framework Agreement, covering the period 2002-2007, was authorized by the UNESCO Executive Board at its 162nd session in October 2001. This agreement will cover activities to be carried out in pursuit of the recommendations of the World Conference on Science (Budapest, 1999).

Director-General: K. Matsuura

Deputy Director-General: M. Barbosa

Headquarters:

UNESCO
7, Place de Fontenoy
75352 Paris Cedex 07-SP, France

Tel: +33 (0) 1 4568 1000
Fax: +33 (0) 1 4567 1690

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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Although ICSU does not have a formal agreement with United Nations Environment Programme, the two organizations cooperate closely on a number of projects such as the World Climate Programme, Studies of the Ozone Layer, the SCOPE programme on biogeochemical cycles, the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and the three Global Observation systems (GCOS, GOOS, GTOS).

Executive-Director: K. Töpfer

UNEP
P.O. Box 30552
Nairobi, Kenya

Tel: +254 2 624 001/2
Fax: +254 2 226 890, 624 006
E-mail: klaus.toepferunep.org

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United Nations University (UNU)

Rector: J.A. Van Ginkel

United Nations University
53-70 Jingumae 5-chome
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-8925, Japan

Tel: +81 3 3499 2811
Fax: +81 3 3499 2828
E-mail: mboxhq.unu.edu

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World Health Organization (WHO)

The Executive Board of the World Health Organization in its thirty-third session (January 1964) admitted ICSU into official relations. The relations between WHO and ICSU relate mainly to problems of toxicity of food and water, the environment, biomedical research, medical geography and genetic experimentation.

Director General: Jong-Wook Lee

WHO, avenue Appia
1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 791 2111
Fax: +41 22 791 3111
E-mail: infowho.int

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World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

A working arrangement between ICSU and the World Meteorological Organization was approved by the Executive Committee of WMO, meeting in Geneva, July 1960, and endorsed by the 2nd Meeting of the Executive Board of ICSU, Lisbon, October 1960. This document sets forth the manner in which the two organizations cooperate and consult with each other on matters of common interest and provides for a system of review so that the original arrangements may be expanded or modified, as necessary.

Secretary-General: Michel Jarraud

World Meteorological Organization
7 bis, Avenue de la Paix
Case Postale 2300
1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 730 8111
Fax: +41 22 730 81 81
E-mail: epa@wmo.int