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.
Not exact matches
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.