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The identification of Planetary Emergencies and their categorisation into fifteen main groups

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: www.energypmp.org
  • 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