UN and global policy processes

The nature of our work

Drawing on its diverse networks of Members, Affiliated Bodies and partners, the Council’s work on science for policy focuses on three areas:

• Providing scientific advice, coordinating and facilitating the participation of scientists in policy processes and international conferences.
• Providing advice on how policy processes should be created or modified to best receive and utilise available scientific knowledge.
• Creating scientific research programmes that will improve collaboration between scientists, policy-makers and other stakeholders in the generation of scientific knowledge.

New York Liaison Office

The ISC has a liaison office for the United Nations in New York, and regularly engages in UN policy processes working with New York-based multilateral institutions and countries’ representations to advance the ISC’s work at the global science-policy interface.