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.
Current LoAs and MoUs
(Letters of Agreement and Memoranda of Understanding)
pdf MoU between the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) and SCAR (163 KB) , signed 25 June 2021
pdf MoU between the European Polar Board (EPB), International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and SCAR (139 KB) , signed 24 March 2021
pdf LoA between SCAR, the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and the International Association of Crysopheric Sciences (IACS) (118 KB) , signed 6 January 2020.
document MoU between SCAR and the International Polar Heritage Committee (IPHC) (152 KB) , signed 17 April 2019.
pdf MoU between SCAR, the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) (705 KB) , signed 12 April 2019.
pdf LoA between SCAR and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) (338 KB) , signed 26 August 2016.
pdf MoU between the Asian Forum for Polar Sciences (AFoPS), IASC and SCAR (316 KB) , signed 26 August 2016.
folder Full list of Agreements, past and present
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
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: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 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