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GreenFacts Foundation Announces its 2003 Conference: Conveying Science into Policy.
Brussels, 8 September 2003. Conveying Science into Policy This one-day event will be held at the Atomium in Brussels on 16 October 2003. The day will bring together environment and health stakeholders, journalists, policymakers and science communicators, to discuss the nature of environmental governance and the role of scientific information in the decision-making process. "It is not easy for policymakers to fully apprehend the scientific information on environment and health issues," says Jacques de Selliers, GreenFacts Foundation General Manager, "A vast body of scientific information is available, but often in a language too complex to properly influence policy decisions. One of the purposes of the conference is to examine the relationship between the way scientific information is communicated and the environmental decision-making process." October 16 will host several complementary events. The morning session will have three simultaneous stakeholder workshops on issues of science communication and environmental decision-making. The results will be presented in the afternoon to a public conference with speakers from UNEP, the EU, Industry and Environmental NGOs. The conference will be followed by a networking cocktail to officially launch the GreenFacts website www.greenfacts.org and allow the press to meet many leading science communicators. GreenFacts Foundation asbl is a non-profit, multi-stakeholder organization based in Brussels. It communicates previously-published scientific information on environment and health issues in a manner more accessible to non-specialists. "GreenFacts is an organization that engages all environment and health stakeholders," de Selliers said. "We believe that they can find common ground in the scientific facts if these are clearly and responsibly communicated". By bringing together a broad membership from government, industry, environmental NGOs and federations to work together, GreenFacts wants to promote better environment and health policies, based on sound scientific information. This conference is run in partnership with EurActiv.com, the European policy information portal, and The Atomium asbl. For more information, visit the conference website at: www.greenfacts-organization.org/conference/. For further details, contact:
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