Support for ICSU Activities in Environment and Global Change

国际科学理事会将促进协调理事会各联盟、委员会和其他机构与环境和全球变化有关的活动。 科联理事会环境问题咨询委员会在科联理事会环境科学干事的支持下，将不断审查并查明和处理贯穿四个主要国际全球变化研究方案的科学问题-世界气候研究方案;国际地圈生物圈方案;国际人类因素（全球环境变化）计划（IHDP）和Diversitas。已经指出的这些问题包括：碳、水、食物和纤维循环;气候和农业;以及可持续发展科学。 还将努力改善数据、信息和科学成果从科学家向决策者的流动。 将探讨如何加强与全球变化有关的自然科学和社会科学之间的联系，以及健康与环境之间的关系，ICSU/ACE将处理的其他问题包括：（1）全球观测系统与全球研究计划之间的关系;（2）联合国大会关于可持续发展新科学议程的决议对全球变化和环境研究的影响。 将探讨在这些领域可能采取的新的科学举措，并将举办科学讲习班和类似的科学规划会议。 将特别注意需要进一步让发展中国家的科学家参与科学理事会有关全球变化的所有活动。 最后，科联理事会将作为世界气象组织（气象组织）的共同赞助者，继续支持世界气候研究方案。

The International Council for Science (ICSU) will promote coordination of environment- and global change-related activities of he various ICSU unions, committees and other bodies. ICSU's Advisory Committee on the Environment (ACE), with support from ICSU's environmental sciences officer, will keep under review and will identify and address scientific issues that cut across the four major international global change research programs -- the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP); the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP); the International Human Dimensions (of Global Environmental Change) Program (IHDP) and Diversitas.Such issues already singled out include: carbon, water, food, and fiber cycles; climate and agriculture; and science for sustainability. Efforts will be also be undertaken to improve the flow of data, information and scientific results from scientists to policymakers. Improved linkages between natural and social sciences related to global change will be explored, as will the relationship between health and the environment, including global change.Other issues that ICSU/ACE will address include (1) the relationship between the global observing systems and the global research programs and (2) implications for global change and environmental research of the UN general Assembly's resolution on a new science agenda for sustainability. Potential new scientific initiatives will be explored in these areas and scientific workshops and similar scientific planning meetings will be convened. Special attention will be paid to the need to further involve scientists from developing countries in the full range of ICSU activities related to global change. Finally, ICSU will, as a co-sponsor of the WCRP with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), continue its support for the WCRP.