Monitoring the Planetary Emergencies

The identification of Planetary Emergencies and their categorisation into fifteen main groups, with 56 subgroups, was one of the most important early achievements of the World Federation of Scientists. Today, it leads the fight against the Planetary Emergencies, a field of endeavour of vital importance for both the Developed and the Developing Countries throughout the world, and one in which a united, international effort will have greater impact than the achievements of individual or groups of countries.

To date the World Federation of Scientists has established the following Permanent Monitoring Panels and Working Groups:

• Biotechnology
• Brain and Behaviour
• Climatology
• Defence Against Cosmic Objects
• Desertification
• Energy
• Floods and Extreme Weather Events
• Information Security: www.itis-ev.de/infosecur/
• Limits of Development
• Missile Proliferation
• Mother & Child
• Pollution
• Motivations for Terrorism
• Mitigation of Terrorist Acts
• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy
• Water

EMFCSC – Via Guarnotta 26 – 91016 Erice – Italy – Tel. +39 923 869133 – Telefax +39 923 869 226 – E-mail: hq@ccsem.infn.it
WFS – CERN – LAA Building 29 – 1211 Geneva 23 – Switzerland – Tel. +41 22 7679958 – Telefax +41 22 7679965 – E-mail: info@worldlab.ch