APECS is also present at non-polar events. On January 9th and 10th, Fernanda Quaglio from APECS Brazil attended the Seminar on Future Earth sponsored by the ICSU ROLAC (International Council for Science, Regional Office of Latin America and Caribbean) Meeting in Varadero, Cuba. ICSU is a non-governmental organization with a global membership of national scientific bodies and International Scientific Unions (www.icsu.org). Its main vision is to encourage international science for the benefit of society. The event was attended by members of the ICSU ROLAC, as well as other international representatives not yet associated with ICSU from 18 countries, including APECS-Brazil (see photos below).
The meeting addressed especially how to attract the associate institutions to develop scientific projects in the context of the ICSU program "Future Earth" (http://www.futureearth.info/). This is a decadal initiative of international research to study several scientific branches related to global environmental change and thus provide information on global sustainability for the next decades. The program involves any scientific field, such as medicine, humanities, chemistry, nutrition, ecology and conservation, engineering, physics, astronomy, paleontology, etc.
