IPY-5 will:

  • Provide a unique and essential opportunity for strengthened international cooperation and partnership to advance polar research and knowledge production. 

  • Allow researchers and knowledge holders to build on the outcomes of previous IPYs, including by: expanding integrated and coordinated observations of accelerating changes; supporting modelling efforts; deepening understanding through transdisciplinary syntheses studies; and expanding the long-term monitoring of current conditions required to understand deeply integrated Earth systems and inform predictions of future impacts of climate and environmental changes.

  • Build specifically on the methodological, technological, educational, and epistemological advancements of the 4th IPY, including major shifts toward working across knowledge systems and transdisciplinary research with specific emphasis on equitable and ethical engagement with Indigenous Peoples and their knowledge systems.

  • Support, connect and extend networks of Indigenous Peoples, academics, local leaders, and early career and community researchers to understand the human and environmental links, impacts and feedbacks with the polar regions and beyond.

  • Provide a comprehensive assessment of the operation and evolution of polar ecosystems enabling a more holistic understanding of the Earth’s interconnected living systems and their trajectories in a changing climate.

  • Document, understand, and amplify experiences and knowledge held by Indigenous Peoples and the societies in the Arctic in the context of rapidly changing interconnected natural and human systems. 

  • Produce education and outreach opportunities to engage the wider community with open and accessible communication strategies, platforms and co-developed content, including by identifying new ways to communicate research and engage communities worldwide to seek solutions and act. 

  • Support education, recruitment, and capacity-building for the new generation of experts needed to understand Arctic and Antarctic changes as well as their global implications.

  • Inform and support local to global evidence-based mitigation and adaptation solutions and progress towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including by supporting enhanced science- and knowledge policy interfacing.

 

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