20/01/2022
As a follow-up to our report on biodegradability of plastics in the open environment published in December 2020, we are launching the built2biodegrade.eu! The website is dedicated to a first-of-its-kind, public experiment to discover how long biodegradable plastics take to break down in seawater. Our report stresses that calling something ‘biodegradable’ doesn’t mean that it will biodegrade […]News
29/11/2021
The practice of science is impossible without importing values from society, and it’s time to leave behind the notion of the independent science advisor who speaks truth to power. So argues Professor Heather Douglas, author of the influential book ‘Science, Policy and the Value-Free Ideal’. In this episode, Toby Wardman talks to Professor Douglas about […]
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15/11/2021
The global pandemic which began in 2020 has brought unprecedented exposure and pressure for science advisors. A recent book, The Science and Politics of Covid-19, surveys the political and scientific response to the crisis. This episode features a wide-ranging conversation with the author, Dr Michel Claessens, on what went right, what went wrong, and what […]
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01/11/2021
We all know that scientific evidence is just one of many inputs into policymaking. But what if the notion of evidence itself is too narrow? Are there reliable sources of knowledge other than ‘evidence’, and if so, how can they be integrated into the policymaking process alongside the theories and data offered by science? At […]
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20/10/2021
Today, the European Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (GCSA) published a statement in response to the dramatic increase of energy prices in Europe in recent months. In their statement, the Advisors point out that accelerating the transition towards a low-carbon energy system is a solution that can lower energy prices in the long term. […]
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18/10/2021
Politicians and lobbyists alike dream of the silver bullet: a single killer piece of scientific evidence that will change all our minds about future policymaking. But could any simple piece of evidence have the power to beat big ideas in public debate? And can evidence garner political attention even when the politicians don’t go looking […]
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04/10/2021
One in three people in the world suffers from malnutrition of one form or another. The world’s most prominent intergovernmental body for addressing this challenge, the UN Committee on World Food Security, has its own science advice service made up of experts from around the world. In this episode, Professor Jennifer Clapp gives Toby Wardman […]
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01/10/2021
SAPEA was invited to participate in the Berlin Science Week for the second time this year. Registration to our session “Time travel and climate: changing the past to fix the future. How could a time machine help us reinvent our energy system?” is now open. This is a fully hybrid event, which means that participants […]
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22/09/2021
In this special episode, twelve scholars of science advice discuss the challenges of incorporating a radically diverse range of perspectives into a science advice process. This conversation was recorded as part of the INGSA 2021 conference on global science advice, and is moderated by Estelle Balian. Speakers in order of appearance: * Jacopo Torriti, Professor […]
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06/09/2021
When it comes to science advice infrastructure, Europe is far from a unified whole. That’s why the European Commission’s science service, the Joint Research Centre, set out to map the entire landscape, looking not only at European and national level but also digging into the way science influences policy within regions and even individual cities. […]
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