Support for the International Council for Science (ICSU) global sustainability and environmental research activities

该奖项为国际科学理事会指导的几项国际活动提供支持，这些活动与美国全球变化研究计划(USCCSP)的战略目标和NSF的几个全球变化研究计划密切相关。该奖项将有助于支持美国在国际科学活动中的领导地位，并促进在具有全球战略重要性的领域开展对美国科学和国际合作伙伴互惠互利的合作。这些活动将主要侧重于两项全球环境研究活动：未来地球和灾害风险综合研究。未来地球是一项为期十年的研究计划，旨在提供知识，以便有效应对全球环境变化的风险和机遇，并支持在未来几十年向全球可持续发展方向转变。它是在当前由国际科学理事会赞助的全球环境变化(GEC)计划的基础上发展而来的，经过一系列审查和前瞻性练习。灾害风险综合研究是一项为期十年的全球工作，旨在应对自然灾害事件造成的挑战，减轻其影响，并改进相关的决策机制。

This award provides support for several international activities directed by the International Council for Science that are closely aligned with the strategic goals of the US Global Change Research Program (USCCSP) and with several NSF programs on Global Change Research. This award will help support US leadership in international science activities and to enable collaborations that are mutually beneficial for US science and international partners in areas of global strategic importance. These activities will principally focus on two global environmental research activities Future Earth and Integrated Research on Disaster Risk. Future Earth is a ten year research program to provide the knowledge for responding effectively to the risks and opportunities of global environmental change and for supporting transformation towards global sustainability in the coming decades. It has developed out of the current ICSU-sponsored Global EnvironmentalChange (GEC) programs following a series of reviews and foresight exercises. Integrated Research on Disaster Risk is a ten-year global undertaking that seeks to address the challenges caused by natural hazard events, mitigate their impacts, and improve related policy-making mechanisms.