The Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) was established by the 10th meeting of the Executive Committee of the

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(ICSU) in 1969. SCOPE's members include 38 national science academies and research councils, and 22 international scientific unions. The current president is

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(

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). The secretariat is located in the Netherlands. SCOPE exists primarily to develop scientific reviews of key environmental issues around the themes of managing societal and natural resources, ecosystem processes, and biodiversity, health and environment. In 2012, SCOPE and

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established a quarterly

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, '' Environmental Development''. In 2019 SCOPE became an affiliated member of the

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SCOPE-Zhongyu Environmental Awards

The SCOPE-Zhongyu Environmental Awards were introduced in 2010. They include three categories of annual Young Scientist awards (

environmental sciences Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geo ...

environmental technologies Environmental technology (envirotech) or green technology (greentech), also known as '' clean technology'' (''cleantech''), is the application of one or more of environmental science, green chemistry, environmental monitoring and electronic devi ...

, and

environmental management Environmental resource management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment. It is not, as the phrase might suggest, the management of the environment itself. Environmental resources management aims ...

). Every second year the Lifetime Achievements Award is given to two scientists with major contribution to the environmental sciences.

SCOPE-Zhongyu Environmental Forum

The SCOPE-Zhongyu Environmental Forum is an annual event first organised in

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in 2011. It addresses current environmental issues, trying to bring scientists from different fields together with policy makers.

United Nations

SCOPE has through the years developed a close collaboration with

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organizations, in particular

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and

UNEP The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on th ...

. SCOPE is a major contributor to UNEP's yearbooks and publishes a policy brief series together with UNESCO and UNEP.

Presidents

The following persons have been president of SCOPE:

References

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