Partnerships with organisations with complementary skills, technologies and interests bring added value to SCAR’s activities. SCAR partners with ISC bodies, advisory bodies to the Antarctic Treaty System, organisations with a polar mission, and global programmes with polar interests. Partnerships support SCAR’s goals to provide authoritative scientific advice to policy makers, expand its advisory sphere of influence on global issues, develop the capacity of students and early-career scientists, and encourage cooperation with Arctic counterparts.
Partners
Current LoAs and MoUs
(Letters of Agreement and Memoranda of Understanding)
- MoU between the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) and SCAR, signed 25 June 2021
- MoU between the European Polar Board (EPB), International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and SCAR, signed 24 March 2021
- LoA between SCAR, the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and the International Association of Crysopheric Sciences (IACS), signed 6 January 2020.
- MoU between SCAR and the International Polar Heritage Committee (IPHC), signed 17 April 2019.
- MoU between SCAR, the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), signed 12 April 2019.
- LoA between SCAR and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), signed 26 August 2016.
- MoU between the Asian Forum for Polar Sciences (AFoPS), IASC and SCAR, signed 29 October 2021.
Partner Organisations
- ACAP – Advisory Committee to the agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
- AFoPS – Asian Forum for Polar Sciences
- APECS – The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
- ASOC – Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition
- ATS – Antarctic Treaty System
- CCAMLR – Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
- CliC – Climate and Cryosphere Project
- CLIVAR – Climate and Ocean – Variability, Predictability and Change
- COMNAP – Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs
- EPB – European Polar Board
- Future Earth
- GBIF – Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- IAATO – International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators
- IACS – International Association of Cryospheric Sciences
- IASC – International Arctic Science Committee
- ICCI – International Cryosphere Climate Initiative
- IGOS-P – Integrated Global Observing Strategy Partnership
- IOC – Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
- IPA – International Permafrost Association
- IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- IPHC – International Polar Heritage Committee
- ISC – International Science Council (SCAR’s parent body)
- IWC – International Whaling Commission
- MBON – Marine Biodiversity Observation Network
- PAGES – Past Global Changes (co-sponsor of IPICS – International Partnership in Ice Core Sciences)
- SCOR – Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
- SCOSTEP – Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics
- SCAR Representative in the SCOSTEP Bureau: Lucilla Alfonsi, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy
- SCOSTEP Newsletters
- Space Science Comic Books
- VarSITI Newsletters
- SPRI – Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
- UNFCCC – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- WCRP – World Climate Research Programme
- WMO – World Meteorological Organisation