The paradox of the life sciences

Autor(en)

Nikola Winter, Raphaël Marchand, Christian Lehmann, Lilian Nehlin, Riccardo Trapannone, Dunja Rokvić, Jeroen Dobbelaere

Abstrakt

Climate change is a systemic problem, and it requires a rapid and pervasive response across all sectors of society: government, business, non-profit organizations, and education and research, down to each individual. Indeed, we cannot wait for others to solve this crisis; each of us has to take part in addressing climate change. We can reduce our personal impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and environmental degradation, and we can advocate and take leadership to promote systemic change at whatever position we are within our institutions and professional networks. As academic researchers, we can work with the management to set standards for more sustainable research and show by example that these are practicable. As research institutes and universities are interlinked with biomedical and pharmaceutical companies, we can also hope for a multiplier effect via collaborative and supply chain networks and via the students we train to spread an attitude of environmental awareness into companies and other institutions.

Organisation(en)

Department für Biochemie und Zellbiologie, Fakultät für Physik, Department für Strukturbiologie und Computational Biology, Department für Mikrobiologie, Immunbiologie und Genetik

Externe Organisation(en)

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)

Journal

EMBO Reports

Band

24

ISSN

1469-221X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.202256683

Publikationsdatum

03-2023

ÖFOS 2012

106023 Molekularbiologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Molecular Biology

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 13 – Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/3af9671a-b0f9-4dc3-bef8-8a76fdfce1a6