[SGRupdate] News from SGR – October 2020

[Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)]

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News from Scientists for Global Responsibility – October 2020

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1. SGR's Responsible Science conference and AGM 2020 - registration open!
2. New weapons dangers - SGR presentation from Green Party conference
3. Cumbrian coal mine - SGR objection


1. SGR's Responsible Science conference and AGM 2020 - registration open!

This year we will be holding our conference online in the form of two webinars
on the 4 and 7 November:

* Transition Now:
Recovering from Covid-19, will responsible science and technology be tools of
rapid change?

- Part I: Responsible science and the climate emergency
Wednesday 4 November 2020; 17:00

Speakers:
Prof Alice Larkin, University of Manchester
Prof Julia Steinberger, University of Leeds
Prof Bill McGuire, University College London
Jess Worth, Culture Unstained

For more details and to register, see:
https://www.sgr.org.uk/events/transition-now-part-i


- Part II: Responsible technology and the climate emergency
Saturday 7 November 2020 (including SGR's AGM); 14:00

Speakers:
Dr Lucy Gilliam, Transport & Environment
Prof Nick Robins, Grantham Institute, London School of Economics
Dr Philip Johnstone, University of Sussex
Dr Alice Bell, Possible
Dr Stuart Parkinson, Scientists for Global Responsibility

For more details and to register, see:
https://www.sgr.org.uk/events/transition-now-part-ii


2. New weapons dangers: Drone swarms, killer robots, nuclear and space

Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, summarises the serious and growing threat from arms
races in emerging military technologies.

Download pdf of slide presentation (at Green Party autumn conference):
https://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/new-weapons-dangers-drone-swarms-killer-robots-nuclear-and-space


3. Cumbrian coal mine: SGR objection

In summary, SGR's key objections to the revised proposal for a huge new deep
coal mine in West Cumbria are that:
- the carbon emissions from the combustion of the coal extracted each year
from this mine would amount to approximately 8.5 million tonnes of carbon
dioxide equivalent, currently similar to the emissions of 1.2 million British
citizens;
- claims that these emissions can be discounted due to a 'substitution effect'
are deeply flawed, once proper consideration is made of economic,
technological and policy factors.

Download pdf of written objection:
https://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/cumbrian-coal-mine-sgr-objection


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