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'''Scientists for Global Responsibility'''<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.gn.apc.org/portfolio/webprojects/scientists-global-responsibility | title=Scientists for Global Responsibility | publisher=[[GreenNet]] | location=UK | accessdate=29 March 2014 }}</ref> ('''SGR''') in the [[United Kingdom]] promotes the [[Ethics|ethical]] practice and use of [[Science, technology and society|science, design and technology]]. SGR is affiliated to the [[International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility]] (INES).  It is an independent UK-based membership organisation of hundreds of natural scientists, social scientists, engineers, IT professionals and architects. In 2017 its partner organization ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) won the Nobel Peace Prize.<ref>The Nobel Peace Prize announcement 2017 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2017/prize-announcement/</ref> ICAN have promoted a [[Kurzgesagt]] YouTube video endorsed by the International Committee of the Red Cross and Crescent (ICRC) showing the consequences of a single atomic weapon exploded over a city.

SGR's work is focused on four main issues: security and disarmament; [[climate change and energy]], including nuclear power; who controls science and technology?; emerging technologies.  The main areas of concern are arms and [[arms control]], including military involvement in UK universities; effect of excessive [[greenhouse gas emission]]s on climate; the nature of war and reducing barbarity; topsoil and water shortages resulting from modern agricultural methods; depletion of species of fish due to [[over-fishing]]; continual spread of [[nuclear weapon]]s, and reduction of occurrence of serious [[nuclear accident]]s.<ref>IOP Science Journal of Radiological Protection 2016 https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0952-4746/page/Focus-on-Chernobyl-and-Fukushima/</ref>

In 2019 SGR launched the journal ''Responsible Science''.<ref>SGR's new ''Responsible Science'' journal https://www.sgr.org.uk/publications/responsible-science</ref> SGR evaluates the risk of new science and new technological solutions to older science-based problems and threats, while recognizing the enormous contribution science, design and technology has made to civilisation and human well-being.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Dominic D. P. |title=Hand of the gods in human civilization |journal=Nature |date=February 2016 |volume=530 |issue=7590 |pages=285–286 |doi=10.1038/nature16879 |pmid=26863194 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

SGR promotes science, design and technology that contribute to peace, social justice and [[environmental sustainability]].

==See also==
* [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]]
* [[Scientists against Nuclear Arms]], a forerunner of SGR

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.sgr.org.uk/ SGR website]
*{{Facebook|responsiblesci}}

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