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.

HLH generator

SGR is now hydro-powered!

ResponsibleSci blog, 18 December 2014

Mind the carbon gap

Stuart Parkinson and Peter Mumford outline just how much more action is needed by industrialised countries if we are to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

ResponsibleSci blog, 5 December 2014

 

The case against UK nuclear weapons

Presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at Lancaster University

1 December 2014
 

CapGlobalCarbon: a global response to a global problem

John Jopling, Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, argues that a radical addition is needed to the international system for curbing carbon emissions.

Article from SGR Newsletter no.43 (advance publication), 26 November 2014
 

Can we get on with saving planet Earth now, please?

Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, argues that the publication of the latest IPCC report and fatal crash of SpaceShipTwo should spur engineers, scientists and others into putting more effort into reducing carbon emissions.

ResponsibleSci blog, 5 November 2014
 

Climate science and technology: what about values?

A short presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at the seminar on 'Communicating Climate Change and Our Low Carbon Future’, University of Leeds

15 October 2014
 

The case for urgent and radical carbon emission reductions

Presentation by Dr Maria Sharmina, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, at the SGR conference, Living within environmental limits: From science to practice.

4 October 2014
 

How can we live well within natural limits? Case studies of One Planet Living

Presentation by Sue Riddlestone OBE, Chief Executive, BioRegional, at the SGR conference, Living within environmental limits: From science to practice.

4 October 2014
 

What does sustainable living look like?

Presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at the SGR conference, Living within environmental limits: From science to practice.

4 October 2014
 

Militarisation of science and technology: lessons from the UK

Presentation by Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at the workshop, ‘Militarization of Science 1914 and Today’, at the Sarajevo Peace Event, Bosnia. Similar presentations were given at the NATO counter-summit, Newport, Wales and the CAAT/STW campaigners day, Manchester, England.

6 June; 31 August; 11 October 2014