Archive for March 2026

The 5th International Polar Year (IPY-5) 2032-2033 has been planned since 2023 with ramp-up, implementation and legacy stages – “striving for holistic, systemic, transdisciplinary research approaches” to foster the “widest possible international collaboration to produce knowledge for action with direct societal relevance”.  These are important, perhaps even sufficient goals for humanity, but are hollow without…