Appeal to UN and EU by researchers who attended the 12th biannual Joint European Thermodynamics Conference

Abstract

Climate change and mineral resource depletion are two of the major challenges humanity is faced with, and are interlinked. The United Nations comprehensively addressed the former a few decades ago by setting up the United Nations Program for Environment and the Framework Convention on Climate Change, of which the International Panel on Climate Change is an offspring. The above initiative can be seen as response model, which mobilizes the scientific community so as to provide ideas, tools, propositions, etc in the combat against climate change.
The depletion of mineral ores and of energy resources (as illustrated by the consumption of non-recycled rare earths and other minor metals), meanwhile, has become a major concern more recently since there is a growing awareness that it threatens the long term survival of humanity.

Keywords

• Appeal
• UN
• EU