CNECV, having the mission of contributing to the qualification of public policies and raising social awareness about the importance of technological innovation applied to agriculture, recommends that legislators, decision-makers, agricultural associations, and research centres urgently address a threefold challenge: to increase the production of nutritious and safe food; to reduce the environmental impact of agricultural production; to adapt food production/consumption to climate change responsibly.
Know More...The National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences (CNECV) approved at its 276th Meeting, held on April 21, the second Report of the Sixth Mandate on the State of the Application of New Technologies to Human Life 2022, dedicated to Disruptive Technologies in Health. The main objective of the analysis is to contribute to an ethical reflection on emerging technologies and their impact on citizens lives, thus recognising potential benefits, to be implemented, and negative effects, to be avoided.
Know More...The VI mandate of the National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences (CNECV), which took office in July 2021, presents its first Report on the State of Application of New Technologies to Human Life, in compliance with Law No. 24/2009 of 29 May 2009, which established the CNECV as an advisory body functioning adjunct to the Portuguese Parliament. This Report Technologies focuses on the technologies driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, briefly describing the evolving reality and highlighting new ethical paradigms. Recommendations were also proposed as contributions to future public policies that refer to the selected subjects.
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