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Cumbre del Futuro de la ONU

El futuro daño ambiental y la captura corporativa se cocinan en la distópica Cumbre del Futuro de la ONU

(Nueva York, 20 de septiembre de 2024) Mientras los líderes mundiales se han venido preparando para la Cumbre del Futuro de la ONU en Nueva York (22-23 de septiembre de 2024), que incluye las negociaciones para un Pacto Mundial Digital [1], los inminentes peligros ambientales del despliegue masivo de la digitalización y la liberación de la IA son ignorados, incluso mientras las gigantes empresas tecnológicas utilizan la cumbre para posicionarse como los salvadores tecnológicos que resolverán las crisis mundiales.

Corporate Capture of the UN Summit of the Future

A recipe for a dystopian digitalized tomorrow

(New York, 20 September 2024) The looming environmental dangers of massive deployment of digitalization and unleashing AI are being effectively ignored by the UN Summit of the Future taking place in New York on 22-23 September 2024 [1]. Giant technology companies are using the summit to position themselves as the tech saviours who will solve the world crises, with final versions of the text concealing the stark impact of their activities on the planet’s environment.

La caja negra de la biotecnología

Integración de inteligencia artificial (IA) y biología sintética

Afrontar los riesgos, exageraciones y desigualdades de la biología generativa

El Centro Africano para la Biodiversidad (ACB), junto con la Third World Network (TWN) y el ETC Group, han elaborado un oportuno documento informativo de cara a la 16ª reunión de la Conferencia de las Partes (COP) del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CDB), que se celebrará en Cali (Colombia) del 21 de octubre al 1 de noviembre de 2024.

'Black Box’ Biotech

Integration of artificial intelligence with synthetic biology

This briefing paper, from the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), together with Third World Network (TWN) and ETC Group, is a timely warning about the risks, hype and inequities underpinning generative biology, ahead of the Convention on Biological Diversity's COP 16, which will be held in Cali, Colombia, 21 October-1 November 2024.

Detrás de las nubes

Impactos ambientales de la digitalizatión

Cuaderno no. 119

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas encabeza el proceso hacia la “Cumbre del Futuro”, prevista para septiembre de 2024, para promover “soluciones multilaterales para un mañana mejor”, entre las cuales no podía faltar el Pacto Digital Mundial.

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Caballos de Troya en los campos

Seis preguntas cruciales sobre la digitalización de la cadena alimentaria

La nueva investigación del Grupo ETC describe cómo la digitalización entra en la agricultura de todas las escalas, tanto en el norte como en el sur gloables. Viene disfrazada como una atractiva tecnología de avanzada, ¿un caballo de Troya? con flotas de drones, tractores inteligentes, aplicaciones y sensores de lujo.

Este colapso no es de hoy

Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas 121

El número 121 de Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas dedica la mayoría de su contenido a las inundaciones en el sur de Brasil y la destrucción que ha seguido a los tratados de libre comercio como instrumentos “para acaparar el mundo”.  En su editorial, establece:

Behind Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

The Environmental Impacts of Digitalization
Report cover for Behind Sugar and Spice report

The UN is currently hosting a process towards the Summit of the Future (SOTF), scheduled for September 2024, in a bid to promote “multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow”, including through a technology track leading to a Global Digital Compact. 

Protect coastal and marine biodiversity from geoengineering

Briefing for delegates at SBSTTA 26

In a wave of “blue carbon” hype, oceans and coastal areas are increasingly pitched as tools to fight global warming. Around the globe dozens of new projects are projected to increase the ocean's capacity to absorb CO2 with a view to selling the carbon credits generated commercially.

Trojan Horses on the Farm

Challenging the digitalization of agriculture: six key questions
Artist's impression of a digital Trojan horse on the farm

ETC’s new research shows that digitalization is progressively entering farms, big and small, now in areas of the Global South as well as in the Global North. It comes disguised as an alluring high tech input, a Trojan farmhorse, with fleets of drones, smart ‘data-driven’ tractors, fancy apps and sensors. But in the belly of the beast lies the huge agribusiness corporate sector which has joined forces with the Big Data giants to strengthen its grip over our food systems.

A solar geoengineering Trojan horse at UNEA-6

A controversial proposal was shut down by Global South countries and broad civil society resistance

Nairobi, Kenya – On the surface, the Swiss resolution on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) at UNEA-6 could appear to be a neutral call to constitute an expert group on SRM. But whether it was intentional or not, the proposed expert group could act as a Trojan horse for the advancement of solar geoengineering, creating a base for geoengineering advocates to set themselves as the main reference in global discussions on SRM. 

Pollution is not a climate solution: Africa wins the fight against solar geoengineering at UNEA-6

Withdrawn resolution on solar geoengineering at UNEA6 is a "victory for common sense", says HOME Alliance

Nairobi, Kenya – In the early hours of this morning at the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) a resolution on solar geoengineering was withdrawn. Numerous African countries, along with many others from the Global South, advocated for the Assembly to reaffirm a precautionary approach to geoengineering, as it has been established by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and other UN bodies.

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