ICES Foundation

The ICES Foundation is an independent, non-political and non-commercial Geneva-based Swiss Foundation that was created in the month of January 2010 for the purpose of attracting finances to build and operate a Swiss-based International Centre for Earth Simulation (ICES), and to build a global network of partner activities to support it. The mission of ICES is to integrate the vast pools of knowledge contained within today's multitude of scientific and socio-economic specializations and to develop next generation 'holistic' modeling, simulation and visualizations that accurately depict the medium and long term future direction of planet Earth. ICES is a project for the common good that will provide enhanced decision support and improved scientific underpinnings to our current and future policy makers, especially with respect to the effects of climate change, extreme weather, geoengineering, resource depletion, fresh water availability, food security, public health & safety, earthquake, tsunami, landslide, volcanic and other hazard reduction and mitigation. The ICES Foundation has been formed as a Public-Private-Partnership and will actively seek close cooperation between multiple domains of society: government, academia, industry, NGOs, and all public and private enterprise.