Building Initiatives

We invent, launch, and manage ambitious initiatives that improve the science communication tools, practices, policies, and systems needed to tackle grand challenges.

Convening Communities

We bring scientists together with governments, institutions, funders, and other stakeholders to share knowledge, bridge perspectives, and work toward common goals.

Advancing Solutions

We help these communities turn knowledge and collaboration into practical strategies, stronger policies, and sustained progress on challenges no one sector can solve alone.

2026 Priorities

Carbon Dioxide Removal

Stopping global warming will require removing enormous amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. SCI created the Carbon Dioxide Removal Action Network (CDRANet) to address this challenge. CDRANet authored the Vancouver Declaration and launched the Vancouver Process, bringing governments together to develop the policies and cooperation needed to scale CDR.

Disinformation

Disinformation is one of today’s most difficult science communication challenges. SCI is exploring how researchers, educators, communicators, policymakers, and other experts can better understand the forces driving disinformation and develop practical ways to respond, including new approaches to public education, awareness, collaboration, and media literacy.

Open Science

For 10 years, SCI’s Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) brought together researchers, universities, publishers, funders, governments, and other stakeholders to improve scholarly communication and open science. This work produced extensive research and recommendations aimed at building a more effective, sustainable, evidence-based, and globally equitable system for sharing research.

Newest articles

When 10 gigatons isn’t enough

Most policymakers agree we’ll need to start removing around 10 billion tons of CO2 from the Earth’s atmosphere soon, annually....

The climate policy mirage

Governments have worked for decades on climate policy, yet temperatures continue to rise. What went wrong, and what does more...

The hate parasite

There are many dynamics that affect the nature of truth and discourse in modern society. Hate is among the most...

Bill Gates is wrong about climate change

The world owes Bill Gates its heartfelt thanks a billion times over for his decades of humanitarian work through the...

Is the Republican Party a cult? When our belief bubbles become cages

We live in an era of disparate realities. We already know these realities aren't benign, but are some of them...

When everything sounds true: Free speech and the fracturing of reality

Freedom of speech is vital to democracy. But in the Information Age, this freedom also creates a cacophony of disinformation...

All hail liberalism

Liberal has become a four-letter word. But if you look at what the word actually means and it’s long and...

Greenland in the news for all the wrong reasons

Greenland has suddenly become synonymous with rare earth mineral deposits and geopolitical influence. But these aren't the real reasons the...

The substitution of science

The Trump Administration's attacks on science have kicked into high gear. What does this mean for science, our future, and...

At a loss for words

So much of what we’ve written about over the years pales in comparison to the carnage happening today. In one...