{"id":43877,"date":"2021-10-26T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/?p=43877"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:08:13","slug":"science-for-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/lab-matters\/science-for-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Science for sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>26 October 2021 \u2013 Key leaders and researchers from major US and European big science laboratories, namely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eiroforum.org\/about-eiroforum\/members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EIROforum<\/a> (Europe&#8217;s eight largest intergovernmental scientific research organisations, including CERN, EMBL, ESA, ESO, ESRF, EUROfusion, European XFEL and ILL) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nationallabs.org\/our-labs\/national-lab-directors-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US Department of Energy&#8217;s seventeen National Laboratories<\/a> (Ames, Argonne, Brookhaven, Fermi, Idaho, Jefferson, Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, NETL, NREL, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest, PPPL, SLAC, Sandia and Savannah River), met by videoconference ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukcop26.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharing the same values, and convinced that science performs best through collaboration, the EIROforum&#8217;s directors and NLDC (comprised of directors from the US National Laboratories) affirmed their common commitment to unite science towards a sustainable and resilient global society and economy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>By stepping up their scientific collaboration on carbon-neutral energy and climate change<\/li><li>By sharing best practices to improve the climate sustainability and carbon footprint of Europe&#8217;s and 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