The current status of biofuels in the European Union, their environmental impacts and future prospects
As part of its strategy to combat global warming by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases, the European Union (EU), in 2009, agreed the Renewable Energy Directive with ambitious targets...
A Policy Report
Forging an international consensus on responsible conduct in the global research enterprise.
The contributions that scientific and scholarly research makes to economic growth, to improved health, and to addressing many other societal needs are widely appreciated around the world. As...
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing for health-related purposes in the European Union: the view from EASAC and FEAM
Until recently, human genetic testing was mainly confined to specialist medical genetic services, traditionally focusing on the relatively rare inherited disorders. However, the rapid pace...
Disasters impose huge social and economic costs on societies. By reducing exposure and adopting new strategies to increase resilience, these costs can be reduced. While experience from...
Challenge to a Sustainable Future
Needs for affordable and clean energy, for water in adequate quantity and quality, and for food security will increasingly be the central challenges for humanity: these needs are strongly...
Most countries have made commitments to limit human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases. To determine the success of these efforts, we need to usestandardized methods that accurately...
Roles and research priorities in the European Union
The world faces major challenges of population growth, climate change, increasing social and economic instability and a continuing failure to achieve food security. The challenge of...
Concentrating solar power (CSP) sits alongside photovoltaic electricity generation as a commercially available renewable energy technology capable of harnessing the immense solar resource in...
Considerations for Benefit-Risk Assessment
Nanotechnology encompasses the design, characterisation, production and application of materials and systems by controlling shape and size at the nanoscale (nanometres). Nanomaterials may...
Joint G8+ science academies’ statement for an education for a science-based global development
Economic growth, provision of food and progress in health – as measured by the spectacular increase in life expectancy during the 20th century and into this first decade of the 21st century...
There have been major advances during the past century in research into and treatment of infectious disease. However, assumptions that most infectious disease had been conquered are now seen...
This document is a summary of the full EASAC report on Synthetic Biology. It offers readers a non-technical account of the principal content and conclusions of that report....
Joint G8+ science academies’ statement
The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7C states: “Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation”. The Academies of...
Synthetic biology covers the design and construction of novel biological components, systems and processes – that are not already known to exist in nature – together with the re-design of...
Unter Federführung der Leopoldina hat das Inter-Academy Medical Panel (IAMP) eine Stellungnahme im Vorfeld der UN-Klimakonferenz, die am 29. November 2010 in Cancun/Mexiko beginnt,...
The introduction of the Clinical Trials Directive...
Das Thema psychische Erkrankungen wurde in der EU-Politik bisher vernachlässigt. Die derzeitige Praxis in der Psychiatrie wird erschwert durch ein unzureichendes biologisches Verständnis...
What is the importance of groundwater for Europe?...
There can be no solution to climate change without addressing deforestation;Deforestation must be addressed now, not later, if we are to meet an 80% CO2 reduction target by 2050;Forests play...
European energy policy seeks to achieve a substantially increased contribution from renewable sources of electricity, and the creation of a pan-European competitive electricity market. The...
Oceans play a critical role in the global carbon cycle by absorbing about a quarter of the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere from human activities;The rapid increase in CO2 emissions since the...
Worldwide, more than nine million people develop active tuberculosis (TB) every year, with 1.7 million dying from the disease. TB had been considered conquered in many European countries,...
Joint Science Academies’ Statement: Climate Change Adaptation and the Transition to a Low Carbon Society
Most new human pathogens reported in the past 25 years, such as influenza and SARS, have zoonotic origins. The risk of zoonotic infection, that is any infection transmissible between...
G8+5 Academies’ joint statement
Climate exerts both direct and indirect effects onthe appearance and spread of human and animalinfectious diseases. The impact of climate changeon the transmission and geographical...
The healthcare screening and treatment processes for migrants entering the EU need to be better evaluated and coordinated across Member States to prevent the potential spread of infectious...
Deaths from previously treatable infections will become more common unless there is investment in the science needed to tackle antibiotic resistance the Royal Society has warned in a report...
EASAC published on 9 May 2006 a report on vaccines: innovation and human health....
EASAC published on 14 June 2005 a report on infectious diseases and the need for co-ordinated activity in Europe. In the report EASAC describes major challenges facing Europe from...
EASAC published on 22 March 2005 a users guide to biodiversity indicators. The guide highlights that while the EU has set the challenging target of halting the loss of plant and animal...
