Influence of scientists at different levels of the decision-making process --- Could we argue that, in the decision-making process, there are two "levels" where scientists and policy-makers meet? The first is at very high-level, and deals with the scientific community to broadly agree on mega-trends: let's take the perfect example of climate change. The policy-makers then base on such mega-trend their multi-annual policies: let's take the perfect example of the EU Green Deal. At this point, the policy-maker 'knows' where he wants to go - towards a greener country, industry, society. But the scientific options to be chosen to achieve such objective are manyfold, and here once again the national/supra-national scientific community can influence the policy decision-making process (e.g. to invest in R&D on bio-fuels for automotive or, viceversa, demonstrating scientifically that these will never help reach achieve the green target, therefore pushing the opting for only electrical vehicles to circulate from year x onwards, etc.).

Source author: Veronica Elena Bocci v_ele_bo@hotmail.com