The World Health Organization may have recommended a broad deployment of the first-ever malaria vaccine in Sub-Saharan Africa, but scientists say its acquisition and distribution will be an issue.
The Club of Rome wants the European Commission, EU, to take the lead in designing policies that go beyond focusing on GDP growth, to the wellbeing of mankind and the planet.
Currently a professor at the Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, Eliezer Rabinovici, the new President of CERN Council, will assume office on January 1, 2022.
President of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, together with 1766 participants from 77 countries added glamour to the ‘8th European Congress of Mathematics’, held between 20-25 June, 2021.
‘Climate Change in Human Rights Courts: Overcoming Procedural Hurdles in Transboundary Environmental Cases’ will be the title of this year’s ‘Madame de Staël Prize Lecture’.
Members of the ‘Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science’, SCGES, have highlighted in their Committee’s ‘1st Annual Report’, how they individually organized activities to promote gender equality and women in science.
A research paper, emerging from a IUPAC project, provides guiding principles for the regulatory evaluation of nanopesticides.
In this blog article, Lucy Richardson explores a tool for understanding behaviourial changes, and how it can be used to identify ways to help people afflicted by the change process.
The 23rd International Congress of Zoology will be dedicated to understanding and managing change in the Anthropocene.
The recent meeting between the President, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, and the Moldovan Ambassador to Qatar has presented opportunities for scientific collaboration among researchers in the two nations.
PRISMAP, the European medical radionuclides program, is set to fast-track the development of nuclear therapy and molecular, widely used at hospitals, for novel, yet promising medical procedures.
A ‘Marine Protected Areas’ guide advances the advance the global community’s understanding of ocean protection and helps progress toward SDG 14.
The report Unleashing Science: Delivering Missions for Sustainability offers an ambitious approach for achieving the 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
A new research has revealed that children, especially in low-income countries, are to face disproportionate increases in lifetime extreme events like heatwaves, flood, and droughts, among others.
Until 15 November 2021, a submission platform will receive proposals for sessions and posters in the 2022 edition of ESOF.
The Senegalese politician calls on Africa’s governments, private sector and scientists to create endogenous resources and solutions to reduce the continent’s scientific dependence on the West.
A communique posted by InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) has highlighted the need for countries to anticipate climate change risks, and quickly implement actions to reach net zero climate-resilient future by 2050.
Patrick Cordier, Professor of Physics, and specialist in mineral physics, at Lille University, in this article, explains how tectonic shape various phenomena of earth surface, gravity, among others.
The Independent Group of Scientists (IGS) is seeking the inputs of select experts to inform its quadrennial Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR).
51 museums and libraries across United States, the US, have received between $1,500-$10,000 as grants to boost vaccine confidence among Americans.
Financial support for authors and quality peer-review publications should be guaranteed, as 16 physics societies pledge commitment to Open Access (OA) for physics research.
Commitments to invest in research for home-grown innovations that support food systems is imperative writes Gilbert Nakweya.
ICTP is now accepting nominations for young researchers from developing countries for its ‘2021 ICTP Prize’, and will present a sculpture, certificate and cash prize to the winner.
Activities for Mineralogy 2022, which will begin mid-2022 and extend until mid-2023, have been unveiled by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA).
A webinar series for ‘beginner’ researchers, masters and doctoral students worldwide is currently being organized by the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique, and Applications (IUVSTA).
Two new species of herbivorous giant sauropods have been found in a place where only flying pterosaurs were known. They provide a new insight into the ecology of this Chinese region during the Early Cretaceous.
Globally, the impact of extreme temperature on human health will be mitigated if effective measures are taken by governments and key stakeholders.
Started in 2020 and billed to end in 2022, a project known as HOMME, in Mozambique and Malawi, will soon provide an answer to the origin and evolution of human beings.
Low and middle-income countries carry the burden of more than half a billion people living with undetected and untreated hypertension, worldwide.
The IUGG is aggressively promoting geophysics and geodesy through international collaboration as it continues to offer financial support to scientific workshops, advanced schools, and symposia.
30 winners have emerged from the 700 entries received for the Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE) ‘Astrophotography Contest’.
The 15th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium will gather scientists to discuss cutting-edge sciences, and address ‘predictability’ in mass, radiation and intra-atmospheric coupling during 21-25 February 2022.
A three-part webinar series scheduled for September 15, 22 and 28, 2021, will explain how the ‘Global South’ is grappling with the question of ‘Sustainable Consumption’.
Applications that enhances the preparedness of first responders in francophone African countries, while advancing chemical emergency response capacities in the continent, exist.
President, International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA), Rémi Quirion, believes the newly-launched Francophone Scientific Advisory Network will showcase the scientific feats of researchers, and also enable the world prepare for the next pandemic.
According to a study, conserving 30% of land will safeguard 70% of terrestrial plant and vertebrate animal species, while 68% of all clean water will be made available.
The International Science Programme, ISP, has welcomed HE Prof Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (Former President of the Republic of Mauritius) and Prof Tom Britton (Dept of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Sweden) as its new Board members.
From July 2020 to July 2023, the DiDEM project will enable science and decision-makers to dialogue for coastal and marine environmental management in seven African countries.
In a chat with ICTP, Shobhana Narasimhan, a condensed matter theorist at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, explained why the poorest and richest countries of the world have very few women in science.
An activity organized by EPS Young Minds, in 2020, showcased discoveries by Catania physicists, and stimulated Italian high school students’ interest in scientific research.
In Guinea and Ghana, non-governmental organizations are pressurizing automotive industry stakeholders to curb social and environmental degradations caused by exploiting bauxite in the two African nations.
This article explains how the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) Communities of Practice will facilitate discussions among stakeholders and engage youths for effective chemical management and SDGs actualization.
This Summer School represents a turning point for a new kind of outreach, looking at the scientific progress of developing countries, among other things.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and The Chemical Society of Nigeria’s joint IUPAC’s CHEMRAWN XXII ‘E-Waste In Africa Conference’ is slated for November this year.
The International Astronomical Union urged its over 120,000 members to address climate change via scientific and educational outreaches, together with various other activities.
This article highlights the role international partnerships such as the ‘Sustainable Energy for All Initiative’ will play in expanding and modernizing Africa’s electric sector.
In this article, Laura Owings reveals how farming innovations rooted in nature and plant science could forge path towards future food systems.
IRD and IIASA launched a two year project to explore how local pathways toward the SDGs can be developped.
Whatever your current position, give your views about the future of physics in Africa
This statement, published in 2020, marks the commitment of the geosciences community to contribute to sustainable development goals.
Science diplomacy should be a strategy that scientists, governments and communities use to build trust and prepare future crisis.
The SKAO’s computing needs will be met by “green computers”.
Les aps The battle to wipe out malnutrition requires healthy diets that also tackle micronutrient deficiencies, alongside the growing burdens of undernutrition and obesity.
A workshop will show how science can improve the necessary sustainability of Blue Economy
Register if you want to discuss your work about partial differential equations with top mathematicians.
A two years project led by IRD aims to support transdisciplinary approaches in sustainability science projects
A workshop to introduce scientists to communication.
SKAO will need a continuous energy supply, based on renewables sources, and without interferences.
Knowing the impact of climate change on quality and supply of water at the scale of local communities is crucial to mitigate it.
The GYA membership call for 2022 is open now. Please submit your application before 15 September 2021, 18.00 (6 pm) UTC.
The Office of Astronomy for Development seeks inspired individuals from any relevant background for its remote fellowship program.
The Commission for Developping Countries of the IMU proposes several opportunities.
A sustainable future for agriculture requires to improve crops yields, with the help of all sciences.
Answering some of the biggest questions about our Universe has an impact on carbon emissions: the lowest as possible.
Small dams have a far greater impact on malaria diffusion in Africa than previously thought.
The rich are to blame for air pollution, while poor endure the impact.
Apply for an IGCP project before 15 September 2021.
An International Science Council delegation attended the UNESCO Special Committee meeting on Open Science, 6-12 May 2021. They published a statement.
The African School of Physics has evolved to be much more than a school. It now organizes scientific conferences
At least two years’ wait for GM Rice production
Improving chemical education and going toward sustainability.
Open Science offers the opportunity to support more ethical, shared and accessible research in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Chinese companies have come together with applied mathematicians and government representatives to collaborate better.
ICTP Staff Associate In-Sik Kang awarded prestigious climate prize
High School teams bag study trip to DESY research center in Hamburg, Germany
Girls and women pay a high price to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences.
With stories about coronavirus dominating the news, it is encouraging to hear that crystallographers around the world are making strong contributions to the efforts to find a vaccine and advance therapeutics.
Déchet New Research on Electronic Waste Reveals different Aspects of the growing Issue in Developing Countries
Today is a special day for mangrove ecosystems throughout the world.
Video testimonies collected by young people in their communities around the world form the basis of a network that allows for the expression of their concerns and for a dialogue with scientists and policy makers.
Artisanal mining as well as industrial activities and waste disposal spread toxic heavy metals in the Amazon region, affecting particularly children health.
The role of basic and space sciences for the achievement of SDGs.
The project that came into operations in June helps to develop key technologies for physics facilities.
Digital platforms are changing the way we do business. A six-year research project tried to understand the consequences of this shift, including how platforms can improve resilience in an uncertain world.
World-leading experts, at a recent webinar, presented up-to-date scientific information and guidance for societal, climate and ecological benefits of natural and managed boreal forests.
Deal to end South Africa’s energy crisis in the offing.
Examining how SDGs 6 and 14 could be achieved.
One more step towards a global movement for the engagement and support of at-risk, displaced and refugee scientists.
With climate change, the frequency of droughts is set to increase. In order to slow down the decline of forests already observed, it is essential to better understand epigenetics, the mechanism for improving drought tolerance in trees.
An example of how early career scientists from different parts of the world can be better involved in scientific meetings.
Travel cancelations and lockdowns compelled organisers to hold their conferences and seminars online. A platform proposes to find them.
Genetically modified mosquitoes are used worldwide to fight the spreading of diseases. But this technique must be used with care.
A conference event has been held to discuss widely the relationships between research, technology and innovation.
China’s First Facility Exploring Earth System Interactions has been launched.
The SKA Observatory saw its Member States approve the start of construction of the SKA telescopes in Australia and South Africa.
ICIAM, a founding union of IYBSSD, produced a directory about how mathematics help to fight the COVID-19.
Using low-cost equipment would boost research and education, especially in developing countries.
Sustainable development, research and Green Education: a Summer School in Venice, Italy is dedicated to green chemistry.
Art education and development is necessary for a knowledge society.
The Commission for Developing Countries of the International Mathematical Union develops programmes to support mathematicains in need for support.
Climate and biodiversity experts worked together to determine the best measures to advance the SDGs in both areas simultaneously. Unprecedented changes in climate and biodiversity, driven by human activities, are synergistically and increasingly threatening nature, human lives, livelihoods and well-being worldwide. Biodiversity loss and climate change are both driven by human economic activities and reinforce…
A new platform gives a better access to climate science for everyone.
A Nature ‘Working Scientist’ podcast series featuring voices from the ISC’s network on the topic of diversity.
Bioimaging technologies must be expanded for global health.
A panel and a lecture series to improve education.
Put this meeting on your schedule to discuss the role of women in mathematics.
A conference to highlight maths contributions to the fight against COVID-19
You could organise an event next year to link scientists at both local and international levels.
A survey of 10 African countries found that a lack of intensive care beds and medical resources led to worse outcomes associated with COVID-19 in Africa than in the rest of the world.
Videos production to explain the energy transition.
Disruptive technologies can help with natural hazards.
It is time to decide the theme of the 2022 International Day of Mathematics.
SKAO Chairperson, Dr Catherine Cesarsky, and SKAO Director-General Prof. Philip Diamond tell about the new international observatory and its purpose.
Scientists seeking to establish fair collaborations
Biotechnology knowledge must be used for the benefit of the economy and of populations.
The Science in Exile project is building momentum.
Chemistry is not merely useful, it is also beautiful.
The IUPAP Commission on Magnetism annouced the laureates of its 2021 awards.
Africa shouldn’t try to adopt the scientific system from the global North without criticism.
Bringing more equity in education, information, and gender balance
Physicists reveal a surprising relationship of a fundamental and universal nature between free choice and local realism.
3718 species newly recorded in Yunnan over past 30 years
A new paleoscience magazine for teenagers and young adults.
Tokenism, top-down management and inequality still plague African research collaborations with the developed world.
How to put more science in health policy and planning
Discover IAP’s new communication and outreach tools and use them to explain how vaccines work
Fellowships for mathematicians from developing regions.
A new study explored options for empowering citizens as a driver for moving from awareness about the need to transform energy systems to action and participation.
Thanks to an inventory of over 6 million trees across five countries, scientists have produced the first continuous maps of the floristic and functional composition of the tropical forests of Central Africa, allowing them to identify the most vulnerable areas to climate change and human pressure.
A promise for shorter and less expensive treatments
Colombian academy of sciences prepares proposals for the sustainable development of the country.
The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Global Young Academy (GYA) lay out recommendations to mitigate the harms of COVID-19 and seize on the opportunities to improve higher education systems around the world.
An interview with Laure Saint-Raymond and Arnaud Guillin, director and executive director of the new institute.
To keep their academic freedom, scientists must be accountable to society.
Open access and new kind of partnerships are ways to develop science all over the world.
Torsten John, Ph. D. Candidate Leipzig University, Germany, is Lead.
There are not enough scientists in developing countries. It must change.
Victor Sabanza, Undergraduate Student, University of La Rioja, Spain, is Meitnerium.
Scientists must accept to engage in partnerships with all parts of society for their work to be used.
Lori Ferrins, Research Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, United States of America, is Nickel.
All knowledge that could help to achieve SDGs should be shared.
Research projects in the global South should brace for funding restrictions as the UK government announced it would slash overseas assistance to £10 billion next year, say academics.
The future of the Gender Gap in Science project and the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science
João Borges, Research Fellow, University of Aveiro, Portugal, is Rubidium.
New relationships between science, policy making and society could help to achieve the SDGs.
The dynamics of earthquakes are better understood thanks to three-dimensional modeling of fault sliding.
The first genetic evidence of a Denisovan population outside Denisova
Specially outfitted drones are helping scientists get close to active volcanoes in a quest to measure and better understand their carbon dioxide emissions.
Recommendations for scientific unions
Marian Asantewa Nkansah, Senior Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana is Neodymium.
Education is one of the roots of sustainable development. And it is not only for the younger ones.
A new grant from the European Research Council will fund an international research project on negative emissions technologies.
An international team of researchers has compiled and verified newly available data on the country’s CO2 sink, and, for the first time, they have quantitatively estimated the effect of China’s carbon mitigation efforts.
Community engagement, open access will strengthen science research in developing countries, writes Nyovani Madise.
Recommendations to instructors and parents and for local organizations
Fun Man Fung, Assistant Director (Education) & Chemistry Instructor, National University of Singapore is Fluorine.
Basic sciences are a common good, and as such must be accessible to everybody.
No climate benefit from hydrogen unless EU stops subsidies for fossil fuels, says EASAC.
UN Secretary-General appoints 15 independent scientists to draft the second quadrennial Global Sustainable Development Report.
“Wheat blast” appeared in fields in Zambia. Fear is that it spreads in other countries.
The data base of good practices
Cynthia Ibeto, Senior Lecturer, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria is Argon.
Structures are important to define the way you do science, and the kind of science you can do.
In Colombia, the “Mission of Wise Men and Women” discussed, and made proposal, about the future of the country, with a lot of science.
Publication patterns (Part 2)
Sadhna Mathura, Lecturer and Academic Coordinator, University of the Witwatersand, South Africa, is Cobalt.
The international secretariat of IYBSSD 2022 received the following letter of support from the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Publication patterns (Part 1)
Xuefeng Jiang, Professor, East China Normal University, China, is Sulfur.
Scientists in Africa meet more or less the same challenges as their colleagues in other parts of the world.
Sustainability is also a serious matter for open access electronic publications.
Dang Thuy Binh, a scientist who studies river biodiversity in Vietnam tells about her work, and being a woman in science.
The Global Survey of Scientists (Part 2)
Jovana Milic, Scientist, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, is Dubnium.
Gender equality in science (as elsewhere) will lead to substancial gains.
AAS is pushing for Open Access publishing of scientific results.
A prize for mathematicians from developing countries.
Folakemi Odedina, the founder and principal investigator at the Prostate Cancer Transatlantic Consortium, tells how she is turning brain drain into “brain gain” for Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Global Survey of Scientists (Part 1)
How young chemists mobilized for the International Year of the Periodic Table 2019
Some transformations to harness basic sciences for sustainable development may be controversial. What are the main points to be discussed?
Excellent research in Africa is mainly related to biology and health.
An online seminar and discussion to learn more about the future of sea food.
Water demand will continue to increase as its quality goes lower, espacially because of vegetation losses.
What is the Gender Gap in Science Project?
How can indigeneous knowledge and science cooperate for sustainable development?
Discovering new knowledge in the African context is good for Africa, and for the world.
Thanks to the EBARA company a new IUVSTA award has been introduced, in 2018.
An hydrological model reveals new zones where malaria may develop due to climate change.
Many academies are already engaging with the SDGs.
Some ideas about how tho use the Recommendation.
What is sustainability science?
A perspective on African research by two members of the secretariat of the African Academy of Sciences.
To survive, the modern civilization must never ever “forget how to tend the soil”.
Research funding for emerging infectious diseases rarely reaches the countries where such diseases do the most harm.
The many ways in which academies can advance SDGs.
Applying and using the Recommendation.
For the development of a new kind of science.
Without ambitious, integrated action combining conservation and restoration efforts with a transformation of the food system, turning the tide of biodiversity loss by 2050 or earlier will not be possible.
IUGG, which is a founding union of IYBSSD 2022, is mobilized toward SDGs. Here is the first mapping of their activities that are useful to tackle the goals.
The reception of a satellite ground receiving station prefigures the mastery of space techniques for Earth observation.
Implementation at national level depends… on the specific nation. However, a common reporting system has been set up by the United Nations.
Inclusive access to science and human capital.
A dialogue with society, more funding, and more women in science are keys for sustainable development.
A new public portal to access satellite imagery for research and service delivery.
The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) recommends a set of actions and urges politicians and all stakeholders to join forces and solve the urgent issue of falsified and substandard medical products.
In an interconnected world, with pandemic or climate change, development funding must also go to research.
Several groups, panels and forums are sharing the responsibility to follow the implementation of SDGs in the UN system.
Promises and risks of the digital revolution for sustainable development.
Knowledge about prehistoric farming cultures can be used to provide insights on human societal responses to climate change.
Nominate scientific breakthroughs before 7th September.
Locally emerging resistance to treatment is major health threat in sub-saharan Africa.
There are two good reasons for science academies to work on SDGs.
The SDGs must be a compass, but which direction is not fixed once and for all.
A partnership will help more countries to use a well proven technology to have more informations about their crops.
Listen to women scientists!
An example of a worsening retroaction between two SDGs : climate action (SDG13) and zero hunger (SDG2).
Why a guide about SDGs for science academies?
What are the key messages of the recommendation?
Several international scientific assessments are today produced on a more or less regular basis. How can they really inform, and influence, policies?
Hollow nanoparticles and trace elements in the environment were rewarded.
An online meeting that may interest scientists beyond chemistry.
In remote villages of the Peruvian Andes, a robot has taken over the classrooms.
As per its title, this recommendation has two concerns: science, and those who make it.
Some organizations that are already leading the action of linking science and technology with society.
Nominate a scientist, a team or even an organization that should be honored for their contribution and innovations towards solving problems in the tropics through science and technology.
Do people who got Ebola in Guinea in 2013 – 2016 and survived have long term health conditions? Yes, answers a new study, that show that research must be made even when ther is no urgency any more.
The Cameroonian government has decided to create logging concessions in a biodiversity sanctuary.
The president of the Clay Mathematics Institute, a major research center in the US, shares his thoughts about how research meetings and interactions could go on during the pandemic. A question that doesn’t concern only mathematicians. Leave your comments!
Some background before we go into this UNESCO recommendation.
Some means to articulate science and the needs of societies, expressed by SDGs.
The inventors of two mathematical theories that have transformed signal processing have been honored.
The Turkish Academy of Sciences just published a report about climate change and its impact on health.
Scientists have identified genes in local maize varieties that can fight off stemborers by summoning their natural enemies, raising hopes for pest-resistant varieties for African smallholders.
Why not producing drugs directly where it is needed in a living body, and with the right shape?
The United Nations organization in charge of science produced a text in 2017 which, without having the status of law, should inspire States, as well as researchers, around the world.
How can we articulate curiosity driven science and the solving of problems that we have today, or that we already foresee for tomorrow?
The flagship educationnal tool of IUPAC is talking to more people worldwide.
A new paper about taxonomy comes out of a IUBS supported workshop.
Growing trend towards science research from global South given boost by COVID-19 interruptions.
Better batteries thanks to improved stack technology.
Paul Woafo, professor at the University of Yaounde 1, receives the 2020 IUPAP Medal for Outstanding Contributions to the Enhancement of Physics in Developing Countries.
An evaluation of scientific success based on interactions with societies.
Could the COVID-19 crisis help to have more balanced research collaborations between the Globla North and the Global South? Some insights from Africa.
A new large-scale, open source hydrological and water resources model will support different stakeholder groups and scientific communities investigations.
Protecting wildlife on land and in the sea (SDGs 14 and 15) would have favorable economic consequences, improving several other SDGs.
Biomass pyrolysis produces coal, an energy vector, but also nanomaterials.
The five recommendations from the science academies are also part of IYBSSD 2022 programme.
We definitely need interdisciplinary science to take the challenges that humanity faces today, that are highlighted by SGDs.
How can SDG 17 “Partnerships for the goals” be implemented? IUVSTA recently took an initiative.
In Malawi, a project that used football to attract the youth and educate them on HIV/AIDS increased testing for HIV by about 30 per cent within this population.
Nanostructured black phosphorus has been introduced as electrode material for ammonia photoelectrochemical synthesis.
More public money is needed for basic research.
A vademecum to associate scientific research and the SDGs.
In 2019, the report of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) recalled the extent of biodiversity loss worldwide. In this context, the improvement of biodiversity exploration techniques is essential to implement targeted actions to protect ecosystems.
Luiz Eugenio Mello, who has recently been appointed as the scientific director of one of Brazil’s major research funding agencies shares his vision for this agency and for science.
A few examples of how basic sciences changed our everyday lives (and other things too).
Scientists shouldn’t be afraid of working for and with society.
An initiative that gives a voice to science experts.
In arid and semi-arid environments, the land is vulnerable, densely populated and exposed to the wind. In these regions, wind erosion must be taken into account to the same extent as water erosion to anticipate soil changes for agriculture.
Scientists fear a new Ebola strain might emerge in the Democratic Republic of Congo if two versions of the disease mix together to form a new, potentially deadlier version.
The Science Council of Japan made the very interesting exercise of classifying the resolutions it adopted in the period 2014-2017 according to the SDGs. Let’s have a look at SDG16 and SDG17.
Some developments about why we need basic sciences to achieve the SDGs.
Difficulties on the road toward SDGs depend both of the state of the scientific knowledge and social and political agreement.
Informal economy is not black or illegal economy: it corresponds with unreported precarious jobs, which in some countries account for the overwhelming majority of jobs. Hence the importance of quantifying it.
The signature of a MoU between IUPAC and IUPAP about IYBSSD 2022.
Climate Smart Agriculture helps to preserve the environment together with food security in Malawi.
The Science Council of Japan made the very interesting exercise of classifying the resolutions it adopted in the period 2014-2017 according to the SDGs. Let’s have a look at SDG14 and SDG15.
Why is basic research needed today? Some historic arguments.
It is always good to remind some statements that may seem obvious. For instance, that sciences are at the base of sustainable development.
Are you a young scientist from a developing country who wish to get a PhD in natural sciences? South Africa may be your next home.
Carrying diseases such as chikungunya or dengue fever, the tiger mosquito is found in French overseas territories but also in the south of France. It is therefore essential to control this species, which raises new issues about control methods.
In Ghana, a huge amount of electronic waste is imported from the Global North. It is pollution, but it also can be used as a ressource for new devices.
The Science Council of Japan made the very interesting exercise of classifying the resolutions it adopted in the period 2014-2017 according to the SDGs. Let’s have a look at SDG12 and SDG13.
Fourteen science academies call for a better funding of basic sciences.
Science diplomacy deserves a special attention, as more and more issues of national concern can only be treated at an international level, with the help of science.
Technological innovation is rooted in basic sciences research, which produces knowledge without emergency. “Finders” need researchers.
In the 1980s, the development community realised that many initiatives in favour of Global South countries were partial successes, sometimes even blatant failures.
The importance of oceanography is massively underestimated in Africa, according to Rondrotiana Barimalala, the only woman from francophone Africa to be named a 2020 fellow of the Future Leaders-African Independent Research (FLAIR) programme.
The Science Council of Japan made the very interesting exercise of classifying the resolutions it adopted in the period 2014-2017 according to the SDGs. Let’s have a look at SDG10 and SDG11.
Hydropower electricity generation would benefit more from a 1.5°C than a 2°C global climate warming scenario, shows a case study in Sumatra.
Pathways to transformation related to the global environmental commons also need more science.
How do young chemists envision sustainability in chemical education?
Since the 1950s, the number of deaths caused by floods in Africa has increased fivefold. Human and cimatic factors are responsibles.
As coronavirus emergency requires accurate and reliable information, more media outlets should have journalists trained in science.
The Science Council of Japan made the very interesting exercise of classifying the resolutions it adopted in the period 2014-2017 according to the SDGs. Let’s have a look at SDG9.
Some interesting reading about carbon neutral european cities.
We continue to read the SDGs science report, and come to the Science and technology part about Global environment commons.
A new working group of the Earth Commission, with renowned scientists from institutions around the world including IIASA, will investigate future pathways of how humanity might develop sustainably to ensure a safe and just world for all.
Knowledge of river flow, which is crucial information for agriculture, research or power generation, is not available everywhere from the ground. Satellites can remedy this.
The first cohort of awardee for FLAIR AAS Fellowship has been presented.
The Science Council of Japan made the very interesting exercise of classifying the resolutions it adopted in the period 2014-2017 according to the SDGs. Let’s have a look at SDG7 and SDG8.
The important congress about research and innovation for sustainable development has a new date, one year later.
The governance of the global environmental commons is based (in principle) on results of basic science.
Light sciences can help to achieve the SDGs, found the International Year of Light some years ago. Let’s have a look at SDG7 and SDG13.
IRD has made public and free data gathered in West Africa’s estuarine, lagoon and continental ecosystems.
Data collection and processing will help to fight the COVID-19 in Africa, and to tackle other sustainable development issues on the long term.
The Science Council of Japan made the very interesting exercise of classifying the resolutions it adopted in the period 2014-2017 according to the SDGs. Let’s have a look at SDG5 and SDG6.
The results of a new study show that achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement will require a deep reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions, ideally by around 40% to 50% by 2030.
Cities are places were science is produced. They also need new scientific knowledge to improve.
Light sciences can help to achieve the SDGs, found the International Year of Light some years ago. Let’s have a look at SDG6.
Every year, 16th May is the day to celebrate light all over the world.
Interruptions to vaccination programmes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could result in new waves of measles or polio outbreaks, health experts warn.
The Science Council of Japan made the very interesting exercise of classifying the resolutions it adopted in the period 2014-2017 according to the SDGs. Let’s have a look at SDG4.
The SDGs compliant university ranking.
There is a double challenge, to change competely global energy production so that everybody get enough without adding greenhouse gases emissions.
Light sciences can help to achieve the SDGs, found the International Year of Light some years ago. Let’s have a look at SDG4, SDG5 and SDG10.
A report synthesize the current knowledge from oceanic and atmospheric sciences about the El Niño -Southern Oscillation, one of the most influential weather phenomenon over the world.
African institutions are full members of a worldwide coalition to fight COVID-19.
The Science Council of Japan made the very interesting exercise of classifying the resolutions it adopted in the period 2014-2017 according to the SDGs. Let’s have a look at SDG3.
A combination of a new satellites data processing and economical modelling helps to evaluate the possibility to achieve one of the SDG7 target in sub-Saharan Africa: universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services.
Genetically Modified Organisms and Information Systems to the rescue of sustainable agriculture.
Light sciences can help to achieve the SDGs, found the International Year of Light some years ago. Let’s have a look at SDG1, SDG2 and SDG3.
The use of antibiotics in aquaculture is likely to increase with climate change, leading to the emergence of more resistant bacteria.
It is a wonder all we can do with satellites for development.
The Science Council of Japan made the very interesting exercise of classifying the resolutions it adopted in the period 2014-2017 according to the SDGs.
Education reduces the vulnerability of populations toward climat change, but also can increase slighlty greenhouse gases emissions.
Can we produce enough food, in a sustainable way, at affordable prices? Agriculture is one of the nexus of SDGs.
How can marine areas to be protected be most effectively defined by reconciling several SDGs?
In this opinion piece, Fazlun Khalid gives his view about what we should aim after the COVID-19 pandemics. Scientific research is in the programme, and not only for vaccines
Low-carbon technologies that are smaller scale, more affordable, and can be mass deployed are more likely to enable a faster transition to net-zero emissions.
Recognising exemplary contributions to chemistry outreach.
How can science help to progress toward economics systems that would be more sustainable (and more fair)?
We already told you about TROP-ICSU (aka Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding), lead by IUBS and the International Union for Quaternary Science. ISC three-year funding ended at the end of 2019, and a recent blog post by ISC (a partner of IYBSSD 2022) reports on the main results. Three achievements…
A recent work shows that the total water stock in Lake Chad has been increasing over the past 13 years. This is encouraging because the lake concentrates environmental, economic and political issues.
Satellite technology is being increasingly seen as a tool to reduce inequalities in the crucial development decade to 2030.
The International Science Programme at Uppsala University supports IYBSSD 2022. Let’s have a look at their vision on the relationships between basic sciences and sustainable development.
The coronavirus pandemics should remind governements that supporting science and scientist is an important long term effort. The case for Nigeria.
The current pandemics gives a peculiar look to some content of the report published in September 2019.
Open access of scientific results will be an important topic during IYBSSD 2022. GYA, one of our supporters, is involved in this field.
Appropriate agricultural practices reduce greenhouse gas emissions and store carbon in the soil.
An annual meeting organized in Japan talked about the need for basic research.
Unions are already working for sustainable development.
The SDGs science report “The Future is Now” talks about inclusivity.
A project intend to fill the global leadership vacuum in order to address the complex and pressing challenges confronting humanity.
Indigenous communities around the globe are closing borders in an effort to avoid a potentially devastating coronavirus outbreak in their territories.
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the globe, IIASA researchers are working to visualize key demographic and socioeconomic information to help inform decisions by health professionals, governments, and policymakers.
As Africa braces for the full impact of the novel coronavirus, two TWAS Fellows who are experts in contagious diseases say key challenges include coordination, capacity and public hygiene.
As light sources push the limits of research and innovation, it’s important not to leave any regions in the dark. One effort to increase access to these rare and complex facilities is LAAAMP—Lightsources for Africa, the Americas, Asia and Middle East Project.
We are continuing our reading of the SDGs science report “The Future is Now”.
A new numerical model of the tropical Atlantic, integrating for the first time the significant role of tides on the Amazon plume, will provide a better understanding of the river’s impacts on oceanic circulation and on climate.
On 14th March 2020, the first International Day of Mathematics took place around the world.
“Global sustainable development, implying the environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainability, as well as the need to face the challenges of growing complexity, requires intense research efforts, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches.” This quote could be from the UNESCO resolution for IYBSSD 2022. It comes in fact from the final declaration of the 2013 Rio…
A recent paper by Physics World explains how physicists help fight the COVID-19.
Who ever said that SDG research should be boring? Enjoy the presentation that Samuli Junttila, from University of Helsinki, Finland, made about his research on health condition of trees in the context of climate change.
Despite their dramatic consequences, the Ebola epidemics in West and Central Africa have contributed to capacity building in affected countries.
The Global Young Academy (GYA) gathers 200 young scientists from all over the world (each member is elected for a 5 years period). They are all selected because they are brilliant scientists, but also because they want to enhance the role of science on the planet. Their programme is then totally coherent with IYBSSD 2022,…
The 15 authors of the report Our Future is Now made an alarming evaluation of the pathways that we are collectively following relatively to the SDGs.
In a recent editorial piece published by Research, Linda Nordling explains why the planned “decade of science and technology” in Africa didn’t happen. However, situation has changed.
ISC Presents is a podcast by the International Science Council. It discusses the challenges, stories, and celebrations of science while seeking to encourage international action on concerns to both science, and society.
Together with the International Union for Quaternary Science (INQUA), IUBS is the leading scientific organisation in this project funded by the International Science Council for Science (ISC). Importance Understanding the dynamics of Earth’s ecosystem and identifying measures to sustain it for the future requires immediate action with multidisciplinary approaches. Research efforts to identify key factors…
A newly described atmospheric mechanism explains the recent evolution of the rains falling on the heights of Peru and Bolivia and shows that damage to the Amazon rainforest could affect the Andean rains.
A biofilm developed in Brazil could extend the shelf life of eggs in the world’s poorest and hottest regions, where they spoil faster and are vulnerable to germs.
If we want to reach the 17 SDGs in 2030, as the UN General Assembly decided in 2015, we must know where we are regarding to the goals, and to the detailed targets, and on which trajectories we are. The report The future is now, published in september 2019 gives an evaluation. In some fields,…
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology has launched a new initiative to develop basic sciences in Egypt.
The Executive Board of IYBSSD 2022 is pleased to announce the involvement of the online media SciDev.Net, which focuses on the relationships between science and sustainable development. The news section of our website will regularly (once a week hopefully) publish articles written worldwide by SciDev.Net journalists. Anyone who is interested in the contribution of science…
IAP outlines a set of measures to protect forests and fight climate change in response to the ongoing global crisis surrounding deforestation and forest burning
Methane is a gas that deserves more attention in the climate debate as it contributes to almost half of human-made global warming in the short-term. A new IIASA study shows that it is possible to significantly contribute to reduced global warming through the implementation of available technology that limits methane release to the atmosphere.
Research in the global South is frequently underfunded and overlooked, but a new initiative is boosting a range of studies, from sustainable development, to soil salinity, and care for the elderly suffering chronic diseases.
As we wrote in a previous post, we post here some content from the science report about SGDs The Future is Now. A first point made by the report may seem obvious but is worth saying again : SDGs are all interconnected. The figure that opens this post gives a summary of these interconnections, and…
A workshop report on interdisciplinary research in epidemic preparedness, a topic of high relevance as the world watches the outbreak of the novel coronavirus unfold has just been launched by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Medical Research Council.
In September 2019, a group of 15 independent scientists co-chaired by Peter Messerli, University of Bern, Switzerland, and Endah Murniningtyas, National Development Planning Agency, Republic of Indonesia, submitted the first scientific report about SDGs to the United Nations Secretary General. They gave this report the title The Future is Now – Science for Achieving Sustainable…
The International Mineralogical Association will celebrate mineralogy throughout the world in 2022. These celebrations will be within IYBSSD 2022. 2022 will be the bicentennial of the death of René Just Haüy (born 1743) who is a father of modern mineralogy and crystallography. 1822 is also when Haüy’s Traité de minéralogie and Traité de cristallographie were…
Low- and middle-income countries could see an 80 per cent rise in cancer over the next 20 years if treatment and prevention services are not stepped up, according to the latest World Cancer Report. The report, compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO), warns that cancer prevention is taking a back seat in poor countries,…
Last year, Marie Korsaga became the first female astrophysicist in West Africa after completing her PhD in astrophysics at South Africa’s University of Cape Town on the theme ‘The distribution of dark and visible matter in spiral and irregular galaxies’. It was the culmination of seven years of intense research. The Burkinabe says she had…
On November 26th 2019, the 40th session of the General Conference of the UNESCO proclaimed March 14th as the International Day of Mathematics. The first official celebration will be on 14th March 2020 with the theme “Mathematics is everywhere”. The International Day of Mathematics (IDM) is a worldwide celebration. Each year on 14th March, all…
Michel Spiro, President of the Steering Committee of IYBSD 2022, gave the following comment during the official celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science In New York United Nation Headquarters on 11th February 2020. “On behalf of IUPAP (the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) and, I am sure I…
The Sustainable Research and Innovation 2020 Congress (SRI2020), of which IRD is a partner, will be held from 14th to 17th June 2020 in Brisbane, Australia. The call for papers is now open. On this occasion, “popcorn sessions“ and “demonstration sessions“ will be organised to allow different audiences to learn and exchange on the latest…
The 11th February 2020, we will celebrate the 5th International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This annual celebration is particularly important as we are preparing IYBSSD 2022: the suppression of the gender gap in any field is the SDG n.5, and it is particularly important in science. On this occasion, Michel Spiro, president…
The first Memorandum of Understanding for the organization of IYBSSD 2022 was signed in Paris on Thursday 16th January 2020 by Jean-Paul Moatti, President and CEO of IRD, and Michel Spiro, President of IUPAP. This signature took place after a lunch with some French science journalists, who had confronted transport difficulties in the French capital.…
“We acknowledge that scientific freedom can only be respected by society if it is based on strict ethical principles. We call on the international scientific community to develop new standards for the fulfilment of academic freedom, and to create tools to describe, monitor and measure its integral conditions. We acknowledge the vital nature of curiosity-driven…
“What a wonderful time it is to be discussing this topic, as we celebrate the designation by the current UNESCO General Conference of 2022 as International Year of Basic Sciences for Development. Jordan was proud to champion this initiative with several partner nations, and many individuals who made this dream a reality are in this…
How can basic sciences infrastructures contribute to sustainable development? This question was at the center of what can be seen as the first pre-event of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development. The exact title of the session organized and moderated by Michel Spiro, President of IUPAP and of IYBSSD steering committee, and…
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