News
- Some 20 experts from around the world met in Trieste at the IAP headquarters to discuss IAP's water programme. For full details on the discussions which took place, see link on left to water research and management programme.
- The Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) and the science academies of the G8 countries issued a joint statement on science and technology for African Development. The statement was released to the media on 8 June as a prelude to the G8 Summit in Scotland in July. NASAC members will transmit the statement to African government ministries and national academy members will issue their own press releases for media within their own countries. For more information, contact: Laura.van.Veenendaal@bureau.knaw.nl
- Natural Disaster Mitigation. Two working group meetings for the newly launched IAP natural disaster mitigation initiative took place in June in China and Indonesia. The purpose of the meetings was to discuss the document, "Global Natural Disaster and Disaster Reduction", drafted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the initiative's lead academy. A third working group meeting is scheduled to take place later this year. For more information, contact: zywang@cashq.ac.cn