Issues

We currently focus on four main issues: disarmament and security, climate change and energy, questions of who controls science and technology and issues surrounding new and emerging technologies. You will also see that we work on some other issues too. You can explore these with the menu on the left of this page and with the search function. Material in this section includes all SGR's main outputs since 2005, with a selection of the more important material from before then.

Kyoto Mechanisms: SGR statement

October 2000
 

Chardon LL Hearing - First stage response

SGR response to the Chardon LL Hearing, April 2000
 

The Clean Development Mechanism: Opportunity or Loophole?

Article by Stuart Parkinson, SGR, from SGR Newsletter, no 20 (spring 2000), p7-9
 

SGR Position Statement on Genetically Modified Foodstuffs 1999

Compiled by the SGR National Co-ordinating Committee in June 1999
 

UK Climate Change Strategy: SGR response (Feb 1999)

SGR Response to a UK government consultation, February 1999
 

Genetics and Ethics

Summary of SGR Conference 1998, including presentations by Dr Mae Wan Ho and Prof Derek Burke
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The Climate Train to Kyoto

Report by Ben Matthews and Michelle Valentine on the SGR-led project 'The Climate Train to Kyoto', September 1998

The report documents the journey by train and boat by a group of scientists and environmental campaigners from Europe to the UN climate negotiations in Kyoto November - December 1997
 

The Kyoto Protocol - What the world agreed to do about climate change (at least for now!)

Article by Stuart Parkinson, SGR, from SGR Newletter 17, March 1998
 

SGR Position Statement on Climate Change 1997

November 1997
 

Climate Engineering: A critical review of proposals, their scientific and political context, and possible impacts

Article by Ben Matthews, SGR, November 1996

This in-depth article discusses large-scale "technical fixes" proposed for offsetting global warming, such as fertilisation of ocean algae, reflection of sunlight with stratospheric dust, or pumping liquid CO2 into the deep oceans. The paper considers the possible impact both on climatic feedback processes, and also on climate science and climate politics. It concludes by asking whether it is wise to continue such research.