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This report summarizes the activities of the Science Diplomacy Center (SDC) Steering Committee during the 2022-2023 intersessional period. It details two primary meetings held in Uruguay and the United States to define the SDC's vision, mission, and goals, and to identify priority activities aimed at strengthening the science-policy interface across the Americas.

• The Science Diplomacy Center (SDC) is designed to strengthen the science-policy interface in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region by providing policy makers with scientific information to support decision-making for complex regional challenges.
• The SDC's revised mission is to enhance the capacity of IAI member states to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and the IAI Strategic Plan by establishing a science diplomacy knowledge hub and strengthening the interface between science and policy.
• Climate action has been identified as a local and regional priority for IAI Parties, with potential sub-focus areas including ocean, food security, and disaster risk reduction and management.
• The SDC intends to develop a science diplomacy knowledge hub to provide resources such as national strategies, policy papers, and regional case studies, potentially using the REDD+ digital platform as a template.
• Proposed flagship activities for the SDC include conducting a landscape analysis of how scientific information is integrated into government policy and a scoping exercise on organizations that synthesize climate action information for the Americas.
• The SDC aims to leverage the IAI Science, Technology and Policy (STeP) Fellowship Program to nurture science diplomacy expertise and use the projects of STeP fellows as resources to demonstrate tangible results.
• Funding strategies for the SDC include exploring grants, donations, endowment funds, and a matching fund structure, as well as collaborating with the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy and Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.

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@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearchndiaicop3113bien22fcc008b2da4132pdf, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{iai-cop-31-13-b-i-en-22fcc008b2da4132.pdf}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, url = {https://archive.iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI-CoP-31-13-b-i-en.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }