SCAR’s Sixtieth Anniversary and the Role of SCAR in Providing Scientific Advice to Support the Work of the Antarctic Treaty System
The Representatives,
Recalling the role of Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (“SCAR”) in initiating, developing and coordinating high quality international scientific research on Antarctica and the Southern Ocean as well as the role of the Antarctic region in global systems;
Acknowledging the significant and longstanding contribution that SCAR has made to support the Antarctic Treaty system;
Warmly congratulating SCAR on its sixtieth anniversary;
Recalling that the Antarctic Treaty promotes freedom of scientific investigation in Antarctica and cooperation toward that end;
Recalling also the designation of Antarctica as a natural reserve devoted to peace and science;
Acknowledging the unique opportunities Antarctica offers for scientific monitoring of and research on processes of global as well as regional importance;
Recognising also the fundamental importance of scientific research to support the work of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (“ATCM”) and the Committee on Environmental Protection (“CEP”);
Recommend that their Governments:
1. acknowledge with gratitude SCAR’s enduring and crucial role in providing objective and independent scientific advice to support and inform the work of the ATCM and the CEP;
2. promote to their nations the extraordinary benefit to humankind from science in, from and about Antarctica and the Southern Ocean;
3. reaffirm their support for scientific investigations in the region, including through the development of an appropriately-resourced scientific workforce for the future;
4. continue to encourage, facilitate and support scientific exchanges and open access to scientific outcomes and data;
5. enhance collaborations with SCAR in its important facilitation role for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science, and provider of scientific advice to the Antarctic Treaty system and disseminating Antarctic science to other international fora; and
6. encourage the ATCM and the CEP to continue its cooperation with SCAR on issues related to the protection of the Antarctic environment, including, but not limited to, Antarctic biodiversity, area protection and management and the implications of climate change for Antarctica.
The Representatives,
Recalling the role of Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (“SCAR”) in initiating, developing and coordinating high quality international scientific research on Antarctica and the Southern Ocean as well as the role of the Antarctic region in global systems;
Acknowledging the significant and longstanding contribution that SCAR has made to support the Antarctic Treaty system;
Warmly congratulating SCAR on its sixtieth anniversary;
Recalling that the Antarctic Treaty promotes freedom of scientific investigation in Antarctica and cooperation toward that end;
Recalling also the designation of Antarctica as a natural reserve devoted to peace and science;
Acknowledging the unique opportunities Antarctica offers for scientific monitoring of and research on processes of global as well as regional importance;
Recognising also the fundamental importance of scientific research to support the work of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (“ATCM”) and the Committee on Environmental Protection (“CEP”);
Recommend that their Governments:
1. acknowledge with gratitude SCAR’s enduring and crucial role in providing objective and independent scientific advice to support and inform the work of the ATCM and the CEP;
2. promote to their nations the extraordinary benefit to humankind from science in, from and about Antarctica and the Southern Ocean;
3. reaffirm their support for scientific investigations in the region, including through the development of an appropriately-resourced scientific workforce for the future;
4. continue to encourage, facilitate and support scientific exchanges and open access to scientific outcomes and data;
5. enhance collaborations with SCAR in its important facilitation role for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science, and provider of scientific advice to the Antarctic Treaty system and disseminating Antarctic science to other international fora; and
6. encourage the ATCM and the CEP to continue its cooperation with SCAR on issues related to the protection of the Antarctic environment, including, but not limited to, Antarctic biodiversity, area protection and management and the implications of climate change for Antarctica.
