Trieste, 20-21 November 2004

Participants:

PRESENT: MEMBERS: Co-chair - Y. Quéré (Académie des Sciences), Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (M. Shamsher Ali), Brazilian Academy of Sciences (E. Krieger), Cuban Academy of Sciences (I. Clark Arxer), Indian National Science Academy (S. Sivaram), Science Council of Japan (A. Abe), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (E. Vesentini), The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (W.J.M. Levelt), Nigerian Academy of Sciences (G.B. Ogunmola), Académie des Sciences et Techniques du Sénégal (A. Dialy Ndiaye), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (G. Öquist), US National Academy of Sciences (M. Clegg), IAP Secretariat (J. Lacey)

EX OFFICIO: Third World Academy of Sciences (M.H.A. Hassan)

OBSERVERS: InterAcademy Council (A. Koers), The Royal Society, UK (P. Collins)

OTHERS: Zhuang Yan, Ling Thompson (Chinese Academy of Sciences), J. Boright (US National Academy of Sciences), J. Fröchen (Académie des Sciences), P. de Goes (Brazilian Academy of Sciences), S. Pastrana (Cuban Academy of Sciences), A. Moitra (Indian National Science Academy), M. Hoshi (Science Council of Japan), J. Allende (Chilean Academy of Sciences), D. Schaffer (TWAS).

UNABLE TO ATTEND: Co-chair Chen Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), ICSU (T. Rosswall).