EU aviation and shipping face big challenges in reducing environmental impact
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members of the scientific research enterprise by sharing expertise and methods for responding to current and future challenges. Scientific societies and journals are specifically called out within the report to play a larger role in promoting integrity in research. One of the recommendations is for societies and journals to develop and strictly maintain clear authorship standards that designate only individuals that have made a “significant intellectual contribution” as authors. In addition, societies and journals are charged with providing identification for at least one author that assumes responsibility for the entirety of the work and requiring disclosure of contributions made by each author. Lastly, the report calls on societies and journals to explicitly specify that gift or honorary authorship, coercive authorship, ghost authorship, and omitting authors that have met the authorship standards are unacceptable practices. “MRS has long placed an emphasis on research integrity and authorship practices in its publication policies,” says Eileen M. Kiley, MRS Director of Communications. In fact, MRS has a long-standing policy on publication ethics that, as Kiley points out, already fulfills several of the
EU aviation and shipping face big challenges in reducing environmental impact
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massive shift in innovation, consumer behavior, and utilization of more ambitious green technologies to power aircraft and seafaring cargo ships will be crucial to reducing their long-term carbon footprint. A European Environment Agency (EEA) report says incremental measures such as improving fuel efficiency to cut emissions will not be enough for the aviation and shipping sectors to meet European greenhouse gas emissions and sustainability targets. Aviation and shipping are the focus of the latest EEA “Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism (TERM)” report published recently. The two
sectors have come under increased scrutiny over their rising emissions and how they can meet EU decarbonization goals. By 2050, global aviation and shipping together are anticipated to contribute almost 40% of global carbon dioxide emissions unless further mitigation actions are taken. The report notes that in many ways the sectors are locked into established ways of operating, which can be difficult to change. For example, past investments in conventional airport and seaport infrastructure can delay the uptake of more sustainable technologies and opportunities to encourage alternative cleaner modes of transport
recommendations made by the Academies report. Specifically, the policy calls for the results of research to be “recorded and maintained in a form that allows analysis and review, both by collaborators before publication and by other scientists, for a reasonable period after publication.” In addition, the policy explicitly defines authorship standards that limit authors to those who “have made a significant scientific contribution to the concept, design, execution, or interpretation of the research study,” and outlines the role of collabor
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