International Research Collaboration
ICSU works with strategic partners to plan and coordinate international research programmes that address major issues of relevance to both science and society. To this end, a number of Interdisciplinary Bodies have been created, addressing various themes, including: global environmental change; hazards and disasters; ecosystem change; oceans; space research; and solar-terrestrial physics. ICSU also sets up committees to address particular issues. The committees have a very specific remit (often including whether ICSU has a role to play in addressing the issue) and they are expected to complete their tasks within a pre-determined timeframe. ICSU is also involved in a number of external activities as a representative for the scientific community (e.g. UN Commission on Sustainable Development, Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012).
Interdisciplinary Bodies
- Antarctic Research (SCAR)
- Biodiversity (DIVERSITAS)
- Climate Observations (GCOS)
- Climate Research (WCRP)
- Data for Science & Technology (CODATA)
- Disaster Risk (IRDR)
- Ecosystem Change & Society (PECS)
- Geosphere-Biosphere (IGBP)
- Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment
- Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
- Ocean Observations (GOOS)
- Ocean Research (SCOR)
- Radio Astronomy & Space Science (IUCAF)
- Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP)
- Space Research (COSPAR)
- Terrestrial Observations (GTOS)
- World Data System (WDS)
Committees
Projects and Activities
Regional Offices
- Africa: Global Environmental Change
- Africa: Hazards and Disasters
- Africa: Health and Human Wellbeing
- Africa: Sustainable Energy
- Asia & Pacific: Ecosytem Approach
- Asia & Pacific: Hazards & disasters
- Asia & Pacific: Sustainable energy
- Asia & Pacific: Urban health
- Latin America & Caribbean: Sustainable Energy
