What role in meeting Paris Agreement targets?
Climate scenarios that keep global warming within Paris Agreement limits rely on large-scale application of technologies that can remove CO2 from the air on a huge scale. This is necessary...
Statement by three national academies (Académie des Sciences, Leopoldina and Royal Society)
The large increase in the size of the international scientific community, coupled with the desire to ensure the appropriate and efficient use of the substantial funding devoted to supporting...
Conference Statement
Conclusions by the the conference delegates after having deliberated on the sustainable use of abandoned mines in the SADC Region, Johannesburg, South Africa, 28–30 November 2017
Perspectives on Water Management in Urban Regions
More than half of the human population currently lives in urban areas and according to the United Nations, cities will be the living space of an additional 2.5 billion people by the year...
G-Science Academies Statement 2017
This statement focuses an the resilience of cultural heritage to natural disasters. Man-made disasters are excluded from consideration, although the devastation they induce is often...
G-Science Academies Statement 2017
World population growth has been accompanied by a progressive increase in the number of older people. Government-supported medical research and scientific discoveries as well as improved...
G-Science Academies Statement 2017
Science, technology and innovation have lang been important drivers of economic growth and human development. Growth relies on the integration of basic and applied research, at both public...
Genome editing refers to the intentional modification of a targeted DNA sequence in a cell which, by greatly improving our understanding of biological functions, is beginning to...
Strategies and Tools to Combat Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases
Statement of the G20 Science Academies
Communicable (infectious) and non-communicable (non-infectious) diseases seriously endanger individual wellbeing and global health, and threaten the global economy. Strong short- and...
