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Determining the Credibility of Commitments in International Climate Policy

Determining the Credibility of Commitments in International Climate Policy

The success of international climate cooperation relies on whether national commitments are believable under the Paris Agreement. What determines the credibility of these commitments?

EU Called Out for Bureaucratic Obstacles to Cross-Border Researcher Mobility

EU Called Out for Bureaucratic Obstacles to Cross-Border Researcher Mobility

The lifting of pandemic restrictions on travel and increased requirements in EU research programmes for researchers to spend time abroad is drawing renewed attention to the way in which blanket EU rules for managing labour flows are getting in the way.

New WHO Policy Requires Sharing of All Research Data

New WHO Policy Requires Sharing of All Research Data

Science and public health can benefit tremendously from sharing and reuse of health data. The Research for Health department has helped spearhead the launch of a new policy from the Science Division which covers all research undertaken by or with support from WHO. The goal is to make sure that all research data is shared equitably, ethically and efficiently.

Mapping ERC Frontier Research

Mapping ERC Frontier Research

The ERC funds curiosity-driven research without predetermined thematic priorities. Even so, ERC grantees often tackle global challenges in their research, offering innovative and sustainable solutions. With the intention to map the breadth and diversity of the research it supports, the ERC analysed the content of the projects funded under the Horizon 2020 framework programme for research and innovation. The analysis gives a comprehensive picture of ERC frontier research across scientific fields, including interdisciplinary crossovers and collaborations.

The Fraught Quest to Account for Sex in Biology Research

The Fraught Quest to Account for Sex in Biology Research

Funders and publishers are increasingly asking researchers to account for the role of sex in experiments - a requirement that's contentious and hard to get right.

Opinion: Feminist Science Is Not an Oxymoron

Opinion: Feminist Science Is Not an Oxymoron

Feminists have generated a set of tools to make science less biased and more robust. Why don't more scientists use it?

UK Science Advice 'lacks Autonomy and Transparency'

UK Science Advice 'lacks Autonomy and Transparency'

Researchers examined Covid-19 response and recommended the nation separates science advice from government

New Scheme Will Allow Thailand-based Researchers to Join European Research Council Teams

New Scheme Will Allow Thailand-based Researchers to Join European Research Council Teams

Thailand and the EU last week signed off a new scheme allowing researchers from Thailand to join European Research Council-funded projects. ERC already has a number of such arrangements with countries including Australia, Brazil, China, India and the US, but this is the first time it has cooperated with Thailand's National Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Policy Council.

Inside the US Supreme Court's War on Science

Inside the US Supreme Court's War on Science

A new ultraconservative supermajority on the United States' top court is undermining science's role in informing public policy. Scholars fear the results could be disastrous for public health, justice and democracy itself.

World Heading into 'uncharted Territory of Destruction', Says Climate Report

World Heading into 'uncharted Territory of Destruction', Says Climate Report

Governments and businesses failing to change fast enough, says United in Science report, as weather gets increasingly extreme

A Double-edged Eco Sword

A Double-edged Eco Sword

Climate change affects us all yet not equally. The plight of those forced to migrate as a result - often called 'climate refugees', though not officially - has become contested ground between human rights/environmental activists and anti-asylum lobbyists. Could 'ecologically displaced', avoiding racialization, xenophobia and division, be a viable alternative?

The Ozone Layer is Slowly Getting Healthier

The Ozone Layer is Slowly Getting Healthier

Ozone-killing materials in Earth's stratosphere fell over 50% to levels seen before the ozone hole became a problem, scientists say. But there's still a way to go. Here's why we need a healthy ozone layer.

Empirically Grounded Technology Forecasts and the Energy Transition

Empirically Grounded Technology Forecasts and the Energy Transition

Decisions about how and when to decarbonize the global energy system are highly influenced by estimates of the likely cost. Here, we generate empirically validated probabilistic forecasts of energy technology costs and use these to estimate future energy system costs under three scenarios. Compared to continuing with a fossil fuel-based system, a rapid green energy transition is likely to result in trillions of net savings, even without accounting for climate damages or climate policy co-benefits.

More Research Will Be Publicly Accessible Sooner

More Research Will Be Publicly Accessible Sooner

Research manuscripts and the associated scientific data generated for projects that are funded by federal agencies in the United States will need to be made publicly available immediately on publication.

Who'll Pay for Public Access to Federally Funded Research?

Who'll Pay for Public Access to Federally Funded Research?

The White House painted an incomplete economic picture of its new policy for free, immediate access to research produced with federal grants. Will publishers adapt their business models to comply, or will scholars be on the hook?

African Ministers Back Science and Education Fund

African Ministers Back Science and Education Fund

Government representatives welcome novel mechanism but do not commit funding

Climate Council Releases Science-backed Plan to Turbocharge Australia's Race to Zero Emissions

Climate Council Releases Science-backed Plan to Turbocharge Australia's Race to Zero Emissions

THE CLIMATE COUNCIL has unveiled 10 game-changing actions Australian governments can immediately get cracking on to fast-track emissions reductions, tackle the energy and cost-of-living crises, and create tens of thousands of new jobs.  

How to Stop Cities and Companies Causing Planetary Harm

How to Stop Cities and Companies Causing Planetary Harm

Researchers must help to define science-based targets for water, nutrients, carbon emissions and more to avoid cascading effects and stave off tipping points in Earth's systems.

Good Health Policy Requires High-Quality Evidence

Good Health Policy Requires High-Quality Evidence

In the health spending debate, what policy makers need most is an honest, realistic, and evidence-based discussion. Unfortunately, many studies in the public arena fall far short.

New U.K. Prime Minister Brings Worries About Research Funding and Climate Measures

New U.K. Prime Minister Brings Worries About Research Funding and Climate Measures

Liz Truss may not honor promises by outgoing leader Boris Johnson to make the United Kingdom a "science superpower".

Liz Truss Must Value Science, Not Fear It

Liz Truss Must Value Science, Not Fear It

Populist slogans won't cut it: the new UK government has nothing to lose and everything to gain by working constructively with scientists and universities.

Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

Climate tipping points are conditions beyond which changes in a part of the climate system become self-perpetuating. These changes may lead to abrupt, irreversible, and dangerous impacts with serious implications for humanity.