White House · Sunday, October 4, 2026
United States and 16 countries endorse a Kyoto science declaration
The File desk · Oct 4, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC
Status
Confirmed (White House release, Oct. 4, 2026)
In Kyoto on Sunday, the United States and 16 other countries endorsed a joint declaration, the Legal instrument A joint declaration the United States and 16 other countries endorsed on Oct. 4, 2026, at the Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto. The White House says it calls for new ways to fund labs, wider use of super intelligence in research, and more training.Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science
The White House posted the endorsement on Oct. 4, 2026. The meeting is the 23rd annual gathering of the Science and Technology in Society Forum.
The countries named on the release, besides the United States, are Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
The declaration asks governments to change how they fund labs. The release says ministers noted long awards, fast grants, and prizes, and said they welcome tests of new kinds of research institutions. It also welcomes metascience, meaning research on how science itself is organized.
A second section is about super intelligence in science. Ministers said it speeds work scientists already do and opens kinds of experiments they could not run before. They pledged wider access to those tools, to scientific data, to computers, and to labs.
A third section is about people. Ministers said they will back students and early-career researchers, train people who run instruments, and expand fellowships and doctoral programs that cross from universities into other workplaces.
Kratsios said: “The way we make scientific discoveries has changed, and the Legal instrument A joint declaration the United States and 16 other countries endorsed on Oct. 4, 2026, at the Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto. The White House says it calls for new ways to fund labs, wider use of super intelligence in research, and more training.Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science
The same release says that in July 2026 he gave President Trump a report titled Science: A New Golden Age. The White House calls that report the broadest rethink of the American research system in eight decades. This story does not reopen that report.
What is still unknown or disputed
- Whether any of the 16 countries attached a reservation. The release does not mention one.
- The line-by-line text of the PDF. This story uses the White House release.
Primary sources
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Source 1
U.S. leads international coalition to endorse Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science
The White House · October 4, 2026
Oct. 4, 2026, Kyoto. The United States and 16 countries endorsed the
at the 23rd Science and Technology in Society Forum. Led by Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios. Named countries: Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States.Legal instrument
Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science
A joint declaration the United States and 16 other countries endorsed on Oct. 4, 2026, at the Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto. The White House says it calls for new ways to fund labs, wider use of super intelligence in research, and more training.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/10/us-leads-international-coalition-to-endorse-kyoto-vision-for-a-golden-age-of-science/