The role of government research agencies across the world is to provide their governments with evidence-based information to inform policy on issues of public interest such as food safety, climate change and healthcare.
In energy, there are four simple issues that drive all the debate: costs, climate, security and safety.
Climate change and road safety campaigners have criticised plans to increase the speed limit on English and Welsh motorways from 70mph to 80mph.
It also maintains development aid for the poorest nations of the world, Van Rompuy said, and will allow the EU to remain engaged with vital global issues such as climate change and nuclear safety.
From climate to infrastructure to public safety to consumption habits to education, we gain clarity when we can view our challenges through a lens of moral philosophy.
Lowering this new natural rate of unemployment will require structural reforms, such as changing education to ensure that people enter work equipped with the sort of skills firms are willing to fight over, adjusting the tax system and modernising the welfare safety net, and more broadly creating a climate conducive to entrepreneurship and innovation.
The new campaign shows how pharmaceutical companies are trying to adapt the marketing of their products to a climate of hair-trigger concern over drug safety.
All our new products need to contribute to sustainability in at least one of our five focal areas: energy and climate, water and wastewater, materials and waste, safety and health, and social progress.
The Safe Stoves project shows a virtuous circle in action, thanks to technology -- environmental protection, improved safety for women, access to clean energy for the poor, enhanced climate security.
Ironically, Americans appear to agree more on climate-change science than other high-profile scientific controversies like the safety of genetically-modified organisms.
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