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Article on IRGC in “Horizons”
An article describing IRGC’s approach to risk governance and how public policy may benefit from improved risk governance has been published in the latest edition of “Horizons”, a journal published by the Government of Canada’s Policy Research Initiative. Read the article here
Nanotechnology Applications in Food & Cosmetics
Publication of Policy Brief "Appropriate Risk Governance Strategies for Nanotechnology Applications in Food and Cosmetics". For more information, click here
Workshop on Geoengineering
IRGC co-hosted the workshop "Understanding and governing the risks of planetary-scale geoengineering" at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal on 20 and 21 April 2009. For more information on our project and the workshop, click here
Nanotechnology
Publication of Report “Risk Governance of Nanotechnology Applications in Food and Cosmetics” prepared for IRGC by Antje Grobe, Ortwin Renn and Alexander Jaeger of Dialogik gGmbH. For more information on this project, click here
Climate Change
Publication of Concept note “The linkages between air quality and climate policies : governance deficits and challenges”
Bioenergy
Publication of Policy Brief “Risk Governance Guidelines for Bioenergy Policies”
Employment
IRGC has no vacancies at the present time.
In May 2009, IRGC has published a Policy Brief on “Appropriate Risk Governance Strategies for Nanotechnology Applications in Food and Cosmetics”. This policy brief provides a commentary on current developments which highlights some of the associated opportunities and risks, and presents the IRGC’s recommendations for the improved risk governance of nanotechnology in food and cosmetics.
In December 2008, IRGC has recently published a Concept note on “The linkages between air quality and climate policies : governance deficits and challenges”. This concept note summarises the effects of aerosols both on the Earth’s climate and on human health and raises questions on how to best address, and resolve, the major risk governance deficits in this area.