Funding

The IGBP Secretariat, our Scientific Committee (SC-IGBP) and some project activities are financed primarily by contributions from around forty countries. Since the year 2000, these national contributions have been relatively steady at about US$1.5M per year. Financial contributions for 2007 were received from 37 countries:

The national contributions typically represent 60–70% of the total central income. The remaining fraction of the income comes from specific grants to support IGBP projects (where funds are simply administered by the Secretariat), research activities and conferences.

Typically, around one-third of the unencumbered income is spent on Secretariat salaries (a significant fraction of which directly supports scientific activities), and around half is spent on non-salary scientific and communication activities. About 10% of the income covers Secretariat operating expenses, and the remainder (around 5%) funds IGBP publications and the IGBP website. The scientific activities funded include project activities, workshops and conferences, meetings, contributions to ESSP, GEO and IGOS and other partners, and integrative research efforts.