❓Can ethics help policymakers make better decisions? Join us on 27 July to discuss how ethical analysis can strengthen science-policy advice and learn more about the REAL Method for rapid ethics assessment. 🕓 16:00 CEST Register here ➡️ shorturl.at/JNPbi

📬 Our first EthAM newsletter is out! 🔍 This edition looks back at EthAM's work since its inception and spotlights the Opinion 'Valuing Nature: Implications for EU Governance'. Read it here ➡️ shorturl.at/4iHpb Subscribe for future updates ➡️ shorturl.at/TAVhs

📢 Stay up to date with our latest work by subscribing to our newly launched newsletter. You will receive updates on: 📄 New publications and advice. 🎙️ Latest podcasts and interviews. 📅 Upcoming events and discussions. 👥 Activities and contributions from EGE members. Register now ➡️ shorturl.at/jSVOv

Next year, at the request of the @ec.europa.eu, we will be playing a significant role in shaping discussions on the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence across several key sectors: 🔬 Science 💻 Digital fairness ⚡ Energy Read more ➡️ shorturl.at/2Zvba

EGE Member Nikola Biller-Andorno gave a remote presentation during last week's Circular Economy - Interdisciplinary Conference. 🗣️ She highlighted the need to provide ethical grounding for considering circularity, justice, and ecological integrity together.

How can policymakers inform their decisions with ethics insights? Join us for a webinar co-organised with the Ethics, Evidence, and Policy Network, where we will look at this and other questions on the role of values in science-policy advice. 🗓️ 27 July 2026 🕓 4pm CEST Register ➡️ shorturl.at/vwPnP

📊 Economic valuation should be used within clear ethical and ecological conditions and be seen as one, but not the only, way to frame human relationships with nature. Read our recent advice here ➡️ ethicsadvice.eu/advice/valui...

"It's impossible to have public policies, in a democracy, without them having a very strong ethical dimension." 🗣️Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Vice-Chair of the European Group on Ethics, highlights the strengths of EthAM and how embedding ethics in policy builds trust. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5j...

NEC Forum 2026 - Maria do Céu Patrão Neves

During this year's NEC Forum, Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Vice‑Chair of the European Group on Ethics, highlighted how 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀…

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A nature-positive economy can be an important and constructive policy ambition if it is clearly defined and responsibly governed. It should recognise nature as a condition of prosperity, wellbeing, and long-term resilience. Read our latest advice here ➡️ ethicsadvice.eu/advice/valui...

"The point is not to slow innovation down, but to orient it. Resilience by design means integrating delivery, justice and ecological grounding from the start." 🗣️ Nikola Biller-Andorno at the Green Transition Forum. She presented our new opinion on valuing nature ➡️ ethicsadvice.eu/advice/valui...

👥🍃 Human societies are not external to nature but embedded within ecological systems on which they depend. Nature is not only a resource, service provider, or object of management. Read our latest Advice here ➡️ ethicsadvice.eu/advice/valui...

Non-human nature enters policy making in many different ways - but too often only what can be measured, priced, or standardised receives institutional weight. Read the new Opinion of The European Group on Ethics’ (EGE) 👇

Ethics Advice Mechanism (EthAM)@ethicsadvice.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🇪🇺 The EU should integrate plural ways of valuing nature explicitly and consistently into policymaking, so that ecological, ethical, social, cultural, and economic considerations can shape decisions. Read our new opinion ➡️ ethicsadvice.eu/advice/valui...

🇪🇺 The EU should integrate plural ways of valuing nature explicitly and consistently into policymaking, so that ecological, ethical, social, cultural, and economic considerations can shape decisions. Read our new opinion ➡️ ethicsadvice.eu/advice/valui...

This Wednesday, we will release an EGE opinion on the value of nature. "We need to work together to make sure that our legal instruments, our economic tools are really all geared towards and aligned with the goal of valuing nature more fully." 🗣️ Nikola Biller-Andorno, co-lead author of the opinion.

"You cannot have progress, development without values, and values without scientific, well-rounded knowledge seem to be helpless." 🗣️ Pawel Łuków, member of the European Group on Ethics, emphasised how important it is to pair science advice with ethics guidance at this year's NEC Forum.