International Policy Reports

International Delegates Report 2017

Reports from our international delegates on their activities

EASAC (2017) ‘Negative emission technologies: What role in meeting Paris Agreement targets?’ - Relevance to Ireland

This report is significant to Ireland’s stated ambitions to become a competitive, low-carbon, climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable economy by 2050.

Opportunities and challenges for research on food and nutrition security and agriculture in Europe

New report from European science academies calls for urgent action on food and nutrition security: Europe will need to change its diet to address climate change and health

Negative emission technologies: What role in meeting Paris Agreement targets?

A new report by the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC).

Living Together: Missions for shaping the future

An agenda for the next European Research and Innovation Framework Programme from the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Text and Data Mining Exception and the Enhancement of Access to Scientific Information in Europe

Statement prepared by the ALLEA Permanent Working Group Intellectual Property Rights

Patentability of Inventions Involving Human “Embryonic” Pluripotent Stem Cells in Europe

In this statement, taking account of recent rapid developments within the life sciences, ALLEA re-addresses the issue and renews its plea that the same moral standards which control research and development in the area...

Homeopathic products and practices: assessing the evidence and ensuring consistency in regulating medical claims in the EU

EASAC, the European Academies' Science Advisory Council, published this Statement to build on recent work by its member academies to reinforce criticism of the health and scientific claims made for homeopathic products...

Opportunities and challenges for research on food and nutrition security and agriculture in Europe

EASAC report examining how global and national food systems present increasing challenges for science communities in tackling issuesfor health, nutrition, agriculture, ecology and human behaviour, and for encompassing...

Valuing Dedicated Storage in Electricity Grids

This EASAC report provides independent advice for policy makers on the use of dedicated electricity storage in electricity grids.

ALLEA- Developing a Vision for Framework Programme 9

Exploring possibilities and potential outcomes for Framework Programme 9

ALLEA - The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (Revised Edition)

Genome Editing: Scientific Opportunities, Public Interests and Policy Options in the European Union

EASAC report on genome editing advises European policy-makers on how to approach groundbreaking research on plants, animals, microbes and humans.

Critical Raw Materials: Critical to the Circular Economy

Circular Economy Indicators

Greenhouse gas footprints of different oil feedstocks

International Delegates Report 2016

Reports from our international delegates on their activities.

Facing critical decisions on climate change in 2015

Gain of function: experimental applications relating to potentially pandemic pathogens

New breeding techniques

Marine sustainability in an age of changing oceans and seas

Going Digital: Creating Change in the Humanities: a report by the Federation of All European Academies

Circular economy: a commentary from the perspectives of the natural and social sciences

Ecosystem services, agriculture and neonicotinoids: a report of the European Academies Science Advisory Council

International Delegates Report 2015

Reports from our international delegates on their activities