Sentences with phrase «potential impact on societies»

The guide also highlights many other responsibilities of scientists, including minimizing the risks of their research both within the lab and beyond and anticipating their work's potential impacts on society.

Research into the theory and physics of the Higgs Boson for example, doesn't have the same obvious potential impacts on society as what might happen to humanity if we don't reduce our GH gas emissions.

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The Need To Develop It remains strange that so many of the Church's leaders seem incurious to the opportunity of science for the Faith, as the potential impact of science on society (for good and ill) becomes ever more important with each passing year.

«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.

Significant actual and potential negative impacts on society in the supply chain and actions taken.

Breastfeeding has a positive impact on the infant, mother, parents and the health - care system; it also reduces the costs to society of raising healthy children who reach their full potential.

focused public attention on important potential impacts of science and technology on society by their responsible participation in public policy debates; or

An international team of scientists investigating the effects of six planned or potential Andean dams on the Amazon river system has found that major negative ecological impacts can be expected both above the dams and throughout the lowland floodplains and the Amazon Delta, according to WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, and other groups.

Meanwhile, the committee says, the government should commission a study of the associated costs, as well as the potential impact on scientific societies, which often publish their own journals and plow any profits back into other society activities.

«The potential impacts of climate change on the biodiversity of Norfolk Species» is published in Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists» Society.

Before such strategies are implemented, their potential impact on environment, economy, and society needs to be tested.

As a materials chemist, however, I think some of the scientific discoveries with the potential for the greatest impact on society will come from the development of new materials.

FET Flagships represent a new model for research and innovation in Europe: they are large scale, long term, science - driven and roadmap - based initiatives that are supposed to have the potential to bring transformational impact on science and technology, as well on economy and society at large.

There's a pattern to how scientists describe the potential impact of stem cells on the economy and society at large.

But no business has a time horizon of this scope and the potential to have the sort of impact on society that education does.

A group of researchers that includes Johannes Lehmann of Cornell University, the closest thing biochar has to a spiritual father, has attempted to calculate just how much impact the technology could have on climate change if societies all over the world transformed their waste streams into biochar production facilities - «the maximum sustainable technical potential of biochar to mitigate climate change».

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

There is a responsibility to inform and help frame the conversation around such possibilities in a way that civil society can understand and question the effectiveness as well as potential impacts on people and the planet.

The polar regions are experiencing unprecedented environmental changes that have significant potential impacts on global climate, ecosystems, and society.

A last comment: It is understandable, not new and natural that Politics and the Media spoil Science fields that have the potential of delivering results of high impact on politics and the society.

Transitioning to renewable energy, capitalizing on new financial mechanisms such as green bonds and overhauling metrics used to measure the impact of businesses on society are all potential opportunities for savvy companies to get ahead of institutional investors, regulators and shareholders demanding more accountability.

I would simply say that IPCC is a political organization whose charter is to investigate and report the» scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation», IOW to evaluate the risk of human - induced climate change and any negative effects it may have on our society and environment.

On the other hand, at a more detailed scale, from a small region to a small country, many specific localities, sectors and societies can be highly vulnerable, at least to possible low - probability / high - consequence impacts; and potential impacts can amount to very severe damages.

Because two of the three legal aid sources are predominately supported by lawyers, decision makers should consider the potential impact on access to justice if lawyers were to dramatically reduce their time / financial support of pro bono services and legal aid programs, which is likely as competition increases and the social contract under which lawyers and society have operated Vis a Vis the state sponsored monopoly continues to unwind.

Too many newspaper editors have fallen prey to the propaganda campaigns of insurance companies who try to poison the perception of the public — and potential jurors in our community — about the impact of litigation on our society.

ESG factors focus on activities that have actual or potential impact on the environment, human health, and, more broadly, society.

Second, this book seeks to articulate the benefits and costs of these privatizing initiatives, particularly including their potential negative impacts on the way we publicly regulate ourselves in modern democratic societies.

Appropriate services supporting all of our young children, their families and their communities, have the potential to make a huge impact on our society, and we can no longer hide from our responsibilities and avoid providing such services.