Scientific Advisory Council to the United Nations
The Scientific Advisory Board of the United Nations ( UN Scientific Advisory Board, SAB) is an advisory body set up in 2013 and made up of 26 scientists to advise the UN Secretary General of the United Nations and the heads of the UN specialized agencies . The UNESCO provides the Secretariat. The establishment of the advisory board was proposed in January 2012 by the “UN High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability”. The body will have its first meeting in Berlin at the end of January 2014 . The first meeting is organized by UNESCO, in cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office and the German UNESCO Commission .
The tasks of the committee include:
- strengthen the link between science and politics;
- ensure that the UN system takes appropriate account of current scientific knowledge in its political discussions and decisions;
- Develop advice in coordination and cooperation with relevant UN organizations related to technology , the natural sciences , engineering and the humanities , how these organizations can work together more effectively in the field of sustainability and how creeping expansion of responsibilities, overlaps and counterproductive competition between the individual organizations can be avoided can be;
- Formulate recommendations to the UN Secretary General on which priorities in the field of science for sustainability should be initiated or supported by the UN system, also within the framework of the “Post-2015 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.
The members of the committee are appointed for two years each with the option of one extension.
Web links
- UNESCO website (multilingual, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ GSP report
- ↑ tasks. ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) sab-2014-berlin.de