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Recent events: We are glad to announce that the
Environmental Science Policy
has been adopted by the Irish Green Party National Council's
meeting 'nem con'. 20/09/2911.
This document provides a very
clear outline of the principles required to formulate policy
for any local, regional or international situations where
environmental issues are of concern.
" For decision-making in environmental
science and management to be effective it must be solidly
grounded in the principles of ecology and the most
up-to-date research findings in ecology.
This ecologically-informed decision-making
is best achieved by the ecosystem approach which is an
overarching strategy for the integrated management of land,
water and living resources that promotes conservation and
sustainable use in an equitable way that will help to reach
a balance of conservation; sustainable use; and the fair and
equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the
utilization of genetic resources. It does not preclude other
management and conservation approaches, such as creation of
biosphere reserves, protected areas, and single-species
conservation programmes, as well as other approaches carried
out under existing national policy and legislative
frameworks, but could, rather, integrate all these
approaches and other methodologies to deal with complex
situations. There is no single way to implement the
ecosystem approach, as it depends on local, provincial,
national, regional or global conditions but this should
utilize the core principles which are spelled out below."...
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The mission of a Green policy for Science and
Technology will be to encourage
and promote research, and the development and the application of this
knowledge
which will:
- increase knowledge and understanding of ourselves,
our planet, and all its life;
- help conserve the finite resources of the world
- help preserve the fragile interdependent network of
life;
- halt pollution of the environment;
- assist progress towards a sustainable decentralised
society, and
- bring about a better quality of life for all the
peoples of the world.
Humanity is either on the threshold of a
step-change movement in the way
science transforms future economic, environmental and social
sustainability, or
we are facing an unprecedented disaster. While sustainable science and
engineering goes well beyond mitigating the unintended consequences of
human
activities there exists an urgent imperative for a breakthrough
approach to
innovative problem-solving so as to deliver sustainable solutions to
critical
global challenges.
Here for the first time is an attempt to
systematically present the whole
gamut of Green science and technology tenets, concepts and principles
and to
draw together the work of many people from around the globe.
Within this group members are well advanced in
bringing together and
reviewing:
Fundamental Tenets and Development Principles
Derivative Concepts
Principles of Specific Disciplines (of which to date:
Environmental Science; Biology; Design and Planning;
Forestry; Physics; Science Education;
Chemistry; Engineering )
We feel this work is of some real importance for
the Irish Greens, but
also feel that this could have a greater international resonance. If
the
international Green movement can work to finalise such a document and
refine
this to a point where some international consensus is achieved, then it
will be
a very major step forward indeed for our international movement. We
look forward
to having a vigorous debate on these issues over the coming period.
If you are involved in Science and Technology and a member of the
Irish Green Party you are welcome to join us by contacting us at
join@gpsp.greenislands.eu
Declaration on
the Use of Scientific and Technological Progress in the Interests of
Peace and for the Benefit of Mankind
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Proclaimed
by General Assembly resolution 3384 (XXX) of 10 November 1975
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights , Geneva, Switzerland © Copyright 1997 - 2002
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| Three
extracts on
policy for a sustainable Europe |
three
extracts from " A
Green Future for Europe " - 2006. that are relevant to our aim to
develop a complete and globally consistent Green Science policy
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GMO-Free
EU-Regions Network
Turin Declaration
PDF 84k
Map
of GMO-Free EU regions |
Turin
Declaration:
Europe-wide rules are required to
allow regional and local authorities within the European Union to
declare and maintain GMO-free territories;................ |
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I: Understanding the Science
1. Why We Need A Safe
Climate Policy
2. Our own geological era—the
Anthropocene
3. The best government money can buy?
4. Life On Thin Ice
5. From Kyoto to Denial—and Onwards to Agricultural Collapse?
6. The Impact of Peak Oil
7. Critical Risk Factors and Tipping Points
II: Solutions We Can Believe In
1. A Safe Climate Future
2. Clean Energy Autonomy
3. The Key Alternatives
4. An End to Energy Waste
5. Goodbye to the Internal Combustion
Engine
6. Tradable Energy Quotas
7: Drawing Down Carbon with Agrichar
8. Ending deforestation
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| STRIVE 12:
Report shows need to adapt to a changed climate |
Date released: Apr
27 2009, 11:30 AM
Significant
changes are projected to occur in Ireland’s climate over this century,
according to a research report published today by the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). The report suggests that we need to plan
for these changes, which are already occurring, but which will be
clearly evident within 40 years.
The
report is entitled Climate
Change in Ireland: Refining the Impacts for Ireland and is available on the
EPA website.
It is released today by the EPA and was prepared by the Irish Climate
Analysis and Research Unit from the Department of Geography, National
University of Ireland, Maynooth. The report was produced as part of the
EPA’s Science, Technology, Research and Innovation for the Environment
(STRIVE) Programme (2007-2013).
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| Climate Code Red
(ccr_intro.pdf 107KB) |
The Forewords and introduction to Climate Code Red
- the case for emergency action, by David
Spratt & Philip Sutton, as distributed by the publishers
(www.scribepublications.com.au ) |
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The Community Climate Change Consortium for
Ireland (C4I) Project was
established in 2003. Based in the headquarters of Met Éireann, the
Irish
National Meteorological Service, in Dublin, its main objective is to
consolidate
and intensify the national effort in climate change research by
building a
capability for carrying out regional climate modelling in Ireland and
to provide
assistance to Irish scientists utilizing climate model output for their
analyses.
A summary of recent work is available in this leaflet (PDF
file,
883K). The full final report can be downloaded from here (PDF
file, 6.0
MB).
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