Documento de antecedentes para la 20a Conferencia de las Partes

This briefing document outlines the operational principles of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) regarding scientific synthesis and decision-making. It emphasizes the need to expand the IAI's capacity to integrate scientific results for policy-making, while maintaining a non-hierarchical, flexible management structure to ensure adaptability and efficiency in interdisciplinary research.

• The IAI is mandated to process and synthesize scientific data from its funded projects to provide accurate information and analysis on the causes and impacts of global change for government policy-making.
• External evaluations by the AAAS External Review Commission (ERC) found that the IAI's scientific advances were not sufficiently translated into policy-relevant discourse and that the organization struggled to communicate achievements effectively to social actors and decision-makers.
• The OECD evaluation identified the IAI's primary challenge as the ability to present complex conclusions in a comprehensible and applicable format, suggesting improvements in data interconnectivity, shared data protocols, and the development of an interdisciplinary thesaurus.
• The IAI's Strategic Plan promotes a dual approach to research: a 'top-down' approach where project themes are defined by member country needs and scientific synthesis, and a 'bottom-up' approach through open calls to leverage scientific creativity.
• The IAI maintains that a non-hierarchical, flexible, and consultative management structure is essential for its success in interdisciplinary science; the document explicitly argues against a proposed Brazilian model for a tripartite Executive Directorate that would introduce a scientific director with broad powers, claiming it conflicts with the IAI's consensus-based governance.
• The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) is tasked with providing recommendations on the Scientific Agenda, managing the peer-review system, creating specific scientific committees, and evaluating the Institute's scientific results.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (n.d.). Documento de antecedentes para la 20a Conferencia de las Partes. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-20-iai-principles-of-operation-s.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Documento de antecedentes para la 20a Conferencia de las Partes. n.d. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-20-iai-principles-of-operation-s.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearchnddocumento, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Documento de antecedentes para la 20a Conferencia de las Partes}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, url = {https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-20-iai-principles-of-operation-s.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }