Birte Holst Jørgensen
Managing Director of Nordic Energy Research.
Susan Leschine
Professor in microbiology at the University of Massachusetts.
Martin Parry
Chair of Working Group II of the Intergovermental Panel on Climate
Coleen Vogel
Coleen Vogel, Professor of Sustainability at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and member of the South African Scientific Committee for Global Change
Coleen Vogel
Professor of Sustainability at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and member of the South African Scientific Committee for Global Change
Coleen Vogel prompts her concern to include scientists from other fields in the climate change debate.
In this way not only scientists such as meteorologists are working on the problem, but also, for example, scientists from anthropological and political sciences. This is necessary because we should also research more on how people are responding to climate change and future adaptations that may be required.
I think this approach of consulting different types of people will also be necessary when implementing biotechnological solutions. Solutions should not be limited to those determined only in a laboratory. Such efforts are part of a wider context; this includes looking at the political aspects. Research, on who will benefit and who will suffer from the technology, needs to be explored. Different stakeholders should therefore be included in discussions in the early stages when adopting new technologies. This may minimize the elements that may create new ‘risk’ problems.