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）的战略目标密切相关，并与美国国家科学基金会的几个全球变化研究项目密切相关。该奖项将有助于支持美国在国际科学活动中的领导地位，并在具有全球战略重要性的领域促进对美国科学和国际伙伴互利的合作。这些活动将主要集中于未来地球和灾害风险综合研究两项全球环境研究活动。“未来地球”是一项为期十年的研究计划，旨在为有效应对全球环境变化的风险和机遇提供知识，并支持未来几十年全球可持续发展的转型。它是在经过一系列审查和预见性工作之后，从目前国际科学理事会赞助的全球环境变化（GEC）项目发展而来的。灾害风险综合研究是一项为期十年的全球事业，旨在解决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.