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A Bittersweet Bargain on Biodiversity

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Despite some small victories, the critical principles of justice and precaution lost ground at COP 15 of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), as business, billionaires and biotech-backers brokered a deal for biodiversity that would work in their interest

Two years late – and supersized beyond any previous CBD meeting – COP 15 was always going to be a complex multidimensional chess battle. Once all sides met in Montreal’s enormous Palais des congrès, an army of corporate and philanthrocapitalist lobbyists and big delegations from biotech-friendly governments used their superior numbers to drown out (and often literally edit out) long-standing principles of precaution and justice.

PRESS RELEASE -- Banners to Bezos and Gates: Back Off of Biodiversity!

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Activists drop 80-foot banners at COP15 warning of Billionaire takeover of biodiversity finance and policy

MONTREAL/TIOHTIÀ:KE/UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE KANIEN’KEHÁ:KA NATION – Climber-activists today dropped 80-foot banners reading, “Biodiversity versus Billionaires,” visible from Montreal’s Palais des Congres where world leaders are meeting at the UN’s landmark Biodiversity COP15.

Over 80 civil society organizations call on CBD COP15 to reinforce precaution against geoengineering to protect biodiversity and communities

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Eighty-three national and international organizations from forty countries have released an open letter

December 12, 2022, Montreal, Canada – Eighty-three national and international organizations from forty countries have released an open letter calling on the parties to the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (CBD) to say no to geoengineering and yes to protecting biodiversity, the environment, the climate, the rights of Indigenous peoples and the human rights of local communities.

La COP15 del CDB necesita reforzar la precaución contra la geoingeniería para proteger la biodiversidad y a las comunidades

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¡No a la geoingeniería climática! Carta abierta al Convenio sobre Diversidad Biológica, a las Partes y al Secretariado del CDB

El Convenio de Naciones Unidas sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CDB) tomó una decisión pionera al abordar desde el principio la geoingeniería y sus posibles efectos sobre la biodiversidad y las personas. En un loable ejemplo de previsión y precaución, el CDB ha tomado decisiones consensuadas de gran relevancia sobre la geoingeniería en varias reuniones de la Conferencia de las Partes (COP) y del Órgano Subsidiario de Asesoramiento Científico, Técnico y Tecnológico (OSACTT) desde 2008[1].

Más de 80 organizaciones de la sociedad civil piden al CDB reforzar la precaución contra la geoingeniería para proteger la biodiversidad y las comunidades

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Ochenta y tres organizaciones nacionales e internacionales de cuarenta países han publicado una carta abierta

12 de diciembre de 2022, Montreal, Canadá - Ochenta y tres organizaciones nacionales e internacionales de cuarenta países han publicado una carta abierta en la que piden a las partes de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Biodiversidad (CDB) que digan no a la geoingeniería y sí a la protección de la biodiversidad

CBD COP15 needs to reinforce precaution against geoengineering to protect biodiversity and communities

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No to climate geoengineering! Open call to CBD Parties and CBD Secretariat

The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) took a groundbreaking decision by addressing geoengineering and its potential impacts on biodiversity and people early on.

Voices from COP15 in Montreal

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An interview with Christine von Weizsäcker of ECOROPA
Audio: 

COP15: An interview with Christine von Weizsäcker

by Zahra Moloo

(Click on the link below to listen to the interview.)

As preliminary meetings of the Open-Ended Working Group wrap up and official COP meetings begin, ECOROPA’s Christine von Weizsäcker talks to ETC Group about evaluating new genetic technologies and the rights of indigenous people in the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

Protecting Precaution in the CBD

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Establishing Technology Horizon Scanning, Assessment & Monitoring in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

TIME: 18.15, Wednesday, December 7 2022
LOCATION: Business and Industry Organizations Meeting Room
Light refreshments will be served

 

Since its earliest days, the CBD has prioritised the precautionary approach to assess and monitor the impacts of new technologies. In an era of rapid technologically-driven change and ever greater technological power, policymakers need the means to see and prepare for disruptive trends. Come and hear:

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