Prof. Dr. Rafia Azmat

Chief Organizer

I am pleased to invite the global scientific community to strengthen Human Earth Coalitions (EHC) at the ICCRS-IV edition, organized under the provision of IUPAC, UNESCO, and EHC. The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2024-2033 as the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD) and this declaration of the International Decade of Sustainable Development (2024-2033) is a vital outcome of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSS 2022-2023) that put decade is under the aegis of UNESCO, building on the success of events of ICCRS like IYC -2011, IYPT-2019, and IYBSSD-2022. Now, ICCRS-IV provides a forum for interaction and exposure to complex challenges. Implementing sustainable development in all dimensions requires a more effective and inclusive approach based on synergistic cooperation across all scientific fields, basic and applied sciences, social and human sciences, and traditional knowledge. This collaboration will enable the development of technology, innovation, and education. The coalition aims for the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD 2024-2033) are as follows.

• CO-CREATE a global network of thousands of transdisciplinary centers active at local, national and global levels to address the existential challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.
• SUPPORT the emergence of a new culture of well-being based on cutting-edge science and traditional and local wisdom.

PROMOTE the reframing of funding agendas and instruments so that they reflect and facilitate the new, integrative role of science.

It was a pleasure to count you among our IYBSSD-2022 subscribers, and we would like the same for “The Earth-Humanity Coalition.”

ICCRS-IV trusts that every scientist and citizen should get involved in IDSSD (2024-2033) and join the ICCRS-IV platform to support IDSSD (2024-2033).

Primarily, ICCRS-IV will focus on the aims and objectives of EHC in creating and networking among thousands of transdisciplinary hubs worldwide at local, national, regional, and global levels to implement the IDSSD (2024-2033) goals in permanent coordination and synergy with UNESCO and a constellation of other partners.

I hope every citizen of the Planet is driven to transform how science and knowledge operate to participate in sustainable development. The Earth-Humanity Coalition (EHC) is the tool that will enable these transformations for a better life for everybody on a healthy planet.