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The Health Argument for Climate Action. The 10 recommendations in the COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health propose a set of priority actions from the global health community to governments and policy makers, calling on them to act with urgency on the current climate and health crises. The recommendations were developed in consultation with over 150 organisations and 400 experts and health professionals. They are intended to inform governments and other stakeholders ahead of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and to highlight various opportunities for governments to prioritise health and equity in the international climate movement and sustainable development agenda. Each recommendation comes with a selection of resources and case studies to help inspire and guide policymakers and practitioners in implementing the suggested solutions.
Study of Swiss agency is among the first to examine how proposals by unorthodox scientists fared.
Species was direct ancestor of early humans in Africa and discovery has led to reassessment of epoch
The Swiss research landscape suffers from a chronic underrepresentation of women. This can also be seen in the share of women applying for funding at the SNSF. But how did this share evolve over time? And have women been less successful to raise funds?
Four junior researchers with disabilities describe their career experiences to date, and how colleagues can act as allies.
Studies suggest that a reversal of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision would be detrimental for many.
In over five years, Bornmann, Stefaner, de Moya Anegon, and Mutz (2014b) and Bornmann, Stefaner, de Moya Anegón, and Mutz (2014c, 2015) have published several releases of the www.excellencemapping.net tool revealing (clusters of) excellent institutions worldwide based on citation data. With the new release, a completely revised tool has been published. It is not only based on citation data (bibliometrics), but also Mendeley data (altmetrics). Thus, the institutional impact measurement of the tool has been expanded by focusing on additional status groups besides researchers such as students and librarians. Furthermore, the visualization of the data has been completely updated by improving the operability for the user and including new features such as institutional profile pages. In this paper, we describe the datasets for the current excellencemapping.net tool and the indicators applied. Furthermore, the underlying statistics for the tool and the use of the web application are explained.
Signatories include scientists from US, EU, India and African and South American countries.
The new president of the European Research Council (ERC) wants to see the budget doubled to increase its ability to fund excellent science and says the agency must remain independent.
Minister 'quite concerned' about delay to finalising UK's participation in €80bn Horizon Europe scheme
The mystery of COVID's origins has reignited a contentious debate about potentially risky studies and the fuzzy terminology that describes them.
Cutting-edge microscopy techniques are allowing researchers to spy on the innards of cells in all their crowded glory.
Kids under 12 years generally can't get a COVID vaccine. US authorities will rule on emergency approval for the BioNTech-Pfizer jab for 5- to 11-year-olds.
Make language inclusive and agree on your aims in advance.
Saturn-sized planet candidate has been identified in Whirlpool Galaxy 28m light years away
Results from some of the innovative EU-funded research that help us to better understand the major political issues of the day and provide recommendations for policymakers, citizens and other organisations to better respond to the threats facing European democracy.
Behind the struggle to stop governments propping up the coal, oil and gas industries.
To combat COVID and future pandemics, governments need to heed the lessons of social interventions and not just the technological ones.
Study shows collaboration between civil society and academia achieving progress toward the goals of the UN Ocean Decade
Rather than causing a backlash, vaccine mandates promote vaccination uptake, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania.
The EU has wrapped up Horizon Europe negotiations with Israel and hopes to sign it up as an associated country before the end of the year, despite pressure from pro-Palestinian academics and objections in Brussels to the country's settlement policies. While the association was expected, the breakthrough comes as uncertainty clouds the status of the UK and Switzerland, two other major potential partners of the research framework.
Since 1996, the Internet Archive has been capturing the World Wide Web but also doing so much more to preserve our digital world behind the scenes.
The scholar-led.network is an alliance of Open Access stakeholders that was constituted at the beginning of 2021 as a “digital focus group” in the context of the project “open-access.network”.
The OECD has published a study that makes nine recommendations to improve the situation of academic careers.