Montreal has been selected as one of five global hubs for a new United Nations environmental science committee known as Future Earth, it has been announced.
The committee aims to establish guidelines for global sustainability and will also sit in Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm and Boulder, Colorado.
The rotating hosts are described as a “globally distributed permanent secretariat.”
The project is slated to last 10 years and aims to unite research on the environment as a means to encourage sustainable development.
About 20 locations reportedly bid to become one of the hubs, which were announced on June 2.
"The consortium will work with tens of thousands of scientists already engaged in excellent global environmental change research, attract new communities, and build new partnerships to achieve the goals of global sustainability,” said Yuan-Tseh Lee, President of the International Council for Science (ICSU), in a press release.
The body joins the International Civil Aviation Organization as a Montreal-based United Nations organization.
Certain delegations had been supporting an initiative to move ICAO to Qatar in recent years.
