Reports & briefings

Chardon Report I, May 2002. Chardon LL is intended to be fed, as a whole plant, to cattle. No experiments on the suitability of such a diet have been made. Approval of the application of Aventis for commercial growing of this maize in the United Kingdom was granted on the basis of two animal-feeding experiments, one on the feeding of maize kernels to chickens and the other on the feeding of the isolated GM protein to rats.

Report II, May 2002
 

Summary and full report, May 2002 
 

Report IV, May 2002 
 

Report V, May 2002 
 

This booklet takes an initial look at issues such as climate change, arms, cleaner technology, militarisation of space, genetics, animal experiments, information technology, and science funding. In addition, it describes the experiences of working scientists and how they have dealt with many of these issues. Contributors include Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat, inventor of the World-Wide-Web Dr Tim Berners-Lee, and the well-known commentator on biotechnology issues Dr Mae Wan Ho.

Edited by Stuart Parkinson and Vanessa Spedding; summer 2001

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