Vision and values
Convinced that safeguarding a heritage of ice coming from glaciers in danger of disappearing highlights the responsibility held by today’s generation, the international, scientific and institutional community has decided to take action.
Our vision
Glaciers are known to contain the memory of past climate and environment.
The Ice Memory initiative aims to collect, save and manage ice cores from selected glaciers currently in danger of degradation or disappearance, with their yielded information for decades and centuries to come.
Safeguarding these ice cores is key to provide scientific advances and knowledge, that will ultimately contribute to the well-being of humanity.
The Ice Memory Foundation federates the scientific and institutional communities in order to create, under international governance, an Antarctic repository of heritage ice cores. Future generation of scientists will therefore have access to high-quality ice cores in order to pursue their research.
Our values
Ice Memory is an international initiative, based on strong common values:- Trust in science
- Disinterested cooperation
- Confidence in future generations
- Independence
Verbatim
"In the coming decades, or even the coming centuries, these samples will be invaluable, be it for entirely unprecedented scientific discoveries or for understanding local changes in the environment. This programme has my full support.”Jean Jouzel
Climatologist, Vice-Chair of the IPCC (2002–2015), Nobel Peace Prize 2007 and Member of the Académie des Sciences
Published on October 11, 2019
Updated onJanuary 11, 2022
Updated onJanuary 11, 2022
