Launch of the UNESCO Science Report 2010 by Mrs Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO.
As a part of the Interparliamentary Forum programme the UNESCO Science Report will be presented.
The Science Report was written by a team of international experts.
The UNESCO Science Report depicts a rapidly changing landscape.
This is especially important given the findings of the UNESCO World Social Science Report 2010, revealing the marginal presence of South Asia in the domain of international social science research and its limited impact on policy making.
It should be noted that the Summary was published before the WG1 report and the editors of the Summary , incredibly , asked the authors of the Science report to make their reports conform to the Summary rather than the other way around.
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Written by a team of independent experts who are each covering the country or region from which they hail, the UNESCO Science Report 2010 analyses the trends and developments that have shaped scientific research, innovation and higher education over the past five years, including the impact of the current global economic recession.
The disclosure was included in a Defense Science Board report released earlier this year, meaning U.S. officials knew of it before planning for the summit began.
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Prepared by distinguished leaders in business, academia, and science, this report recommends a strengthened partnership between American business and the federal government to step up to the global energy and environmental challenges of the next century.
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The science group said in the report that although global warming is getting worse, it is not clear how much of the problem is caused by human activity.
It also referred to Minister for Learning and Science Alasdair Allan's response to the report, calling for a teacher workforce which was skilled and confident in delivering stimulating science learning.
The Ad Hoc Group was charged with addressing the science-related recommendations of the report.
Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary-General, tasked Irina Bokova to convene an Ad Hoc Group to advise him on the science-related recommendations of the Report.
The Secretary-General tasked Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, the UN specialized agency with a mandate for science, to take the lead on following up on the science-related recommendations of the report.
Just last week, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story that referenced a report from the National Science Board showing that in all but seven states, funding for major public research universities has been cut.
However, BBC News Online science editor David Whitehouse said a report due next week on the loss of the spacecraft would be one of the most damning in Nasa's history, and was likely to catalogue many failures.
As a result, the report recommends a "science and technical education act" offering loans to college students studying science, math and engineering, with the loans being forgiven if the student agrees to work for the government for a given number of years.
The Director-General also informed the President about the new assignment given by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to UNESCO in the field of a new UN-systemwide science initiative for sustainability, in the wake of the High level Report on Global Sustainability, and the formation of a new Science Advisory Board, to be hosted and managed by UNESCO.
That outbreak was associated with 1, 850 reported illnesses, according to a report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
On Monday, Mr Darling published a Cliffe birdstrike report commissioned by the Central Science Laboratory and the British Trust for Ornithology.
Associated Press Science Writer Seth Borenstein contributed to this report from Washington.
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