{"id":61282,"date":"2023-04-14T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.science\/?page_id=61282"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:20:14","slug":"group-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/council.science\/global-policy-impact\/group-of-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Group of Friends to champion Science for Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most if not all the challenges on the multilateral agenda are urgent, complex, and interconnected, requiring a much stronger and agile interface between science, policy and society. Now is the time to change how we work with science and knowledge to inform decision-making and action at multiple levels and steer action towards desired outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The establishment of a coalition of a Group of Friends on Science for Action provides an important and complementary impetus to on-going efforts to build a stronger role of science in decision-making and implementation at the global level:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It provides an <strong>informal forum for debate, open exchange between countries<\/strong> that are taking leadership in using science in policy and decision-making to support peer-learning, exchange of good practices, and create opportunities for bilateral collaborations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It provides an <strong>informal forum for dialogue with scientists<\/strong> on issues where scientific information, synthesis and advice are needed and create a demand-led scientific engagement with policy- and decision-makers.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It provides an <strong>entry point for the ISC to support<\/strong> a better and more targeted mobilization and engagement of the broad scientific community based on the needs and priorities identified by\u00a0 participating countries.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It provides an <strong>informal forum for discussing and deliberating on joint activities and positions of relevance<\/strong> to all UN member states.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The creation of the Group of Friends on Science for Action was announced at an informal plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly on Science-based Evidence in support of Sustainable Solutions on 12 April 2023 in New York by high-level representatives of Belgium, India and South Africa. All UN Member States have been invited to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n    <section class=\"section section--profile block\">\n        <div class=\"row\">\n                            \n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-6 card card--people\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/profile\/morgan-seag\/\" class=\"card__img-wrapper\">\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/council.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Morgan-Seag-225x300.jpg\" class=\"card__img\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/council.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Morgan-Seag-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/council.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Morgan-Seag-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/council.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Morgan-Seag-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/council.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Morgan-Seag-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/council.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Morgan-Seag-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/council.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Morgan-Seag-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/council.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Morgan-Seag-272x362.jpg 272w, https:\/\/council.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Morgan-Seag-407x542.jpg 407w, https:\/\/council.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Morgan-Seag.jpg 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>                <span class=\"visually-hidden\"> Morgan Seag<\/span>\n    <\/a>\n    <div class=\"card__content\">\n        <h2 class=\"card__title\"> Morgan Seag<\/h2>\n        <div class=\"card__meta\">\n                      <p>ISC Senior Representative to the UN System<\/p>\n                                <p>International Science Council<\/p>\n                  <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/profile\/morgan-seag\/\" class=\"link link--absolute\"> Morgan Seag<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of countries supporting science and actionable knowledge has been set up to provide an important and complementary impetus to ongoing efforts to build a stronger role of science in decision-making at the global level led by Belgium, India and South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":64737,"parent":83147,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61282","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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