The phrase "societal consensus" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a general agreement or shared belief among members of a society. You can use this phrase when discussing societal issues or topics that involve the opinions and values of a larger group of people. For example, "The government's decision to increase taxes was met with widespread opposition, showing a lack of societal consensus on the issue."
In the FoP and Dutch food cases, the healthy food criteria appear to enjoy a broad societal consensus, making them societally representative guidelines.
There was a rough societal consensus about how to handle these problems: Keep them quiet.
We operate from a basic societal consensus that it isn't the responsibility of individual citizens to balance the government's budget.
Open, receptive and ongoing dialogue between the interested and informed parties is the way to bring about a societal consensus that can help mould that future.
"It is an issue, because we have not yet come to a societal consensus on the moral or legal status of the embryo".
When governments fought inflation with free-market reforms they both forged and reflected a societal consensus in favour of economic stability.
To determine the preferred approach to superficial femoral artery (SFA) revascularization of Trans-Atlantic Inter-Societal Consensus (TASC) B and C lesions in claudicants requiring intervention based on a review of published data.
Due to the high human and societal costs, the Consensus Conference on Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes was convened by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American Society of Nephrology and the National Kidney Foundation to appraise issues regarding patient management, highlighting current practices and new directions.
First, there is an increasing societal and scientific consensus on the need to measure, predict (and, ultimately, mitigate) the impact of anthropogenic climate change, linked to the rise of industrial fossil-fuel combustion and land-use change.
Due to both very high human and societal costs, the Consensus Conference on Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes was convened by the American Diabetes Association ADAA) in collaboration with the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and the National Kidney Foundation NKFF).
They seem to propose that the traditions of environmental policy, the level of societal and political consensus on the credibility and salience of scientific knowledge on climate change and its associated uncertainties and the actions required, and the extent of politicization of climate change affect the openness and transparency of NAS regarding scientific uncertainties.
