Support for the International Council for Science (ICSU) Environmental and Global Environmental Change Activities 01 September 2008 - 31 August 2013

国际科学理事会（ICSU）将协调国际科学，汇集最优秀的人才来解决全球问题，并帮助提高科学投资的成本效益，特别是通过实施其新的战略计划。ICSU将讨论一系列全球环境变化活动，重点是对地球系统科学伙伴关系（ESSP）、国际地圈-生物圈计划（IGBP）、世界气候研究计划（WCRP）和DIVERSITAS（一个国际生物多样性科学计划）的审查和分析。科学股将在很大程度上通过其环境科学干事的努力开展这些活动。国际科学理事会的其他环境活动将包括：在国际地球观测小组（GEO）的活动中，特别是在发展全球地球观测系统（GEOSS）方面，代表科学（特别是研究）的利益；促进和鼓励国际努力，确保科学数据和信息的有效和及时的国际交流；召开国际科学会议，推动地球科学和环境领域的研究，特别是全球变化研究领域的研究。假设ICSU对上述ESSP和WCRP的审查是积极的，ICSU将继续为ESSP和WCRP项目协调活动提供部分资金。WCRP将继续提供结构，使物理气候系统研究人员能够制定解决关键研究问题的长期和短期国际战略计划，协调大范围的国际活动，并参与和寻求跨学科研究活动的新机会。WCRP还将负责发展业务和实验气候预报所需的更多知识和工具。ICSU将扩大和改进它在发展中国家——尤其是非洲——以及在发展中世界的其他地区推进地球科学研究的努力。国际科学理事会工作的一个重点将是更有效地解决确保将其主持下的国际研究成果有效地传递给决策者和利益攸关方的需要。

The International Council for Science (ICSU) will coordinate international science, bringing together the best minds to address global issues and to help make investments in science more cost-effective, particularly through implementation of its new Strategic Plan. ICSU will address a number of global environmental change activities, emphasizing its reviews and analyses of the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP), the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP), the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and DIVERSITAS (an international program of biodiversity science). ICSU will conduct these activities in large part through the efforts of its Environment Science Officer.Other ICSU environmental activities will include: representation of science (especially research) interests in activities of the international Group on Earth Observations (GEO), in particular in development of the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS); promoting and encouraging international efforts to assure the effective and timely international exchange of scientific data and information; and the convening of international scientific meetings to advance research in the geosciences and environment, in particular, in the area of global change research.Assuming that ICSU's reviews of the ESSP and WCRP referred to above are positive, ICSU will continue its partial funding of the ESSP and WCRP program coordination activities. The WCRP will continue to provide the structure that enables physical climate system researchers to develop long-term and short-term international strategic plans addressing key research questions, coordinate international activities on a tremendous range of scales, and engage in and seek out new opportunities for interdisciplinary research activities. The WCRP will also be responsible for development of the increased knowledge and tools needed for operational and experimental climate forecasting. ICSU will expand and improve its efforts to advance research in the geosciences in developing countries - most especially in Africa - but in other parts of the developing world as well.A focus of ICSU's efforts will be to more effectively address the need to assure that the results of international research under its aegis are transmitted effectively to policy-makers and stake holders.