According to Alicia Duran, Research Professor CSIC and President of the ICG, plans for the promotion of United Nations International Year of Glass for 2022 are progressing well.

The aim is to underline the scientific and economic importance of glass, the unseen heart of so many technologies and a facilitator of just and sustainable societies as they face the challenges of globalisation.

A formal presentation was streamed worldwide last December via the CSIC channel on YouTube. It soon clocked up 3500 direct hits, with many more through LinkedIn and Google.

New letters of endorsement arrived, adding to the 1250 previously received from 77 countries.

This February, the Spanish mission to the United Nations, with the support of the Egyptian delegation, initiated the process of delivering the Resolution to the General Assembly (GA).

They received support from UNIDO, the UN body focused on Industrial Development who are now editing a final draft of the Resolution.

Now, the proposal needs the official support of as many countries in every continent as possible to accelerate the process and guarantee a unanimous vote at the next UN meetings of the GA in March-April.

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