The Geological Society of London is the UK’s professional body and learned society for geoscience. It supports the development of geoscientific knowledge, promotes professional excellence and ethical standards, and provides educational resources and programs for future geoscientists.
The organization has prepared a poster that illustrates how geoscientists apply their work in practice and why their role is critical to contemporary society.
Geoscientists will be crucial in meeting society’s future challenges, be that through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change, or through other important policies to protect the environment and ensure the availability of vital resources for all.
Geoscientists will be critical in:
- Ensuring access to clean and sustainable water supplies
- Sourcing and extracting critical minerals needed from green technologies like solar and wind power
- Understanding the subsurface to harness geothermal energy, enable safe infrastructure development, and carbon capture and storage technologies
- Mitigating climate change and influencing governmental policy through understanding past climates, modelling potential future outcomes and understanding climate impacts on the environment, livelihoods and natural hazards
The poster is available in multiple languages here.
It is now also available in Ukrainian