Global science funding must be redesigned to succeed on SDGs
- July 29, 2023
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Global science funding must be redesigned to succeed on SDGs
Subject : International Relations
Section: International Organisation
Context:
- The current science around sustainability or sustainable science model requires a fundamental revamp to keep up with the pace and intricacy of climate challenges, argued a high-level Global Commission on Science Missions for Sustainability (GCSMS).
Global Commission on Science Missions for Sustainability (GCSMS):
- GCSMS was established in 2021 by the International Science Council (ISC), a non-profit.
- The ISC was created in 2018 as the result of a merger between the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC).
- It works at the global level to catalyze and convene scientific expertise, advice and influence on issues of major concern to both science and society.
- Report published by it is “Flipping the Science Model: A Roadmap to Science Missions for Sustainability”.
- The commission recommended establishing an ambitious $1 billion per year mission science network of Regional Sustainability Hubs across the world to rectify the issue.
- These hubs would address context-specific and complex issues — from climate change and malnutrition to water security and clean energy — through a systematic engagement process.
Slow progress on SDGs:
- Almost halfway to meeting the 2030 deadline, countries remain far from achieving poverty eradication goals, according to the latest UN SDG progress report.
- Nearly 1.1 billion of the 6.1 billion people across 110 countries are poor, noted the UNDP’s latest multidimensional poverty estimates.
- Global hunger is back to 2005 levels and nearly 600 million people will remain mired in extreme poverty by 2030.