News release: Geoengineering Moratorium at UN Ministerial in Japan
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In a landmark consensus decision, the 193-member UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) closed its tenth biennial meeting with a de facto moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments. “Any private or public experimentation or adventurism intended to manipulate the planetary thermostat will be in violation of this carefully crafted UN consensus,” stated Silvia Ribeiro, Latin American Director of ETC Group.
Moratoire sur la géoingénierie à la rencontre ministérielle des Nations Unies au Japon
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À la suite d’une décision par consensus sans précédent, la Conférence des 193 parties à la Convention des Nations Unies sur la diversité biologique (CDB) s’apprête à conclure sa dixième rencontre biennale avec l’adoption d’un moratoire de facto sur les projets et les expériences en géoingénierie. « Toute expérimentation, privée ou publique, ou tout aventurisme visant à manipuler le thermostat planétaire constituera une violation de ce consensus soigneusement élaboré dans le contexte des Nations Unies », a affirmé Silvia Ribeiro, directrice de l’ETC Group pour l’Amérique latine.
Media Advisory: Press Conference on CBD Geoengineering Moratorium
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ETC Group, an international civil society organization that monitors new technologies, explains and comments on the Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP 10 consensus decision to adopt a moratorium on geoengineering. Webcast of the press conference given by ETC Group representatives at http://webcast.cop10.go.jp. (link not active)
The speakers:
Mr. Pat Mooney - Executive Director, ETC Group (Canada)
Ms. Silvia Ribeiro – Director Latin America, ETC Group (Mexico)
Reporte sobre “cultivos climáticos”
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Las corporaciones más grandes del mundo de semillas y agroquímicos están llenando cientos de solicitudes de patentes de amplísimo espectro sobre genes múltiples, en una apuesta por controlar la biomasa vegetal del planeta, según el informe del Grupo ETC publicado este lunes 25 de octubre.
Un puñado de corporaciones multinacionales están presionando a los gobiernos para que acepten, mediante el sistema de patentes, el apropiamiento de la biodiversidad más amplio y peligroso de la historia, advierte el Grupo ETC en Nagoya, durante la reunión del Convenio sobre Diversidad Biológica. (18 al 29 de octubre de 2010).
New Report on Gene Giants and “Climate-Ready” Crops
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Under the guise of developing “climate-ready” crops, the world’s largest seed and agrochemical corporations are filing hundreds of sweeping, multi-genome patents in a bid to control the world’s plant biomass, according to a report released by ETC Group today.
A handful of multinational corporations are pressuring governments to allow what could become the broadest and most dangerous patent claims in history, warns the group at the United Nations’ Convention on Biodiversity in Nagoya, Japan (18-29 October 2010).