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Gene Giants Prepare the Genetic Wipe-out of One of the World’s Most Important Food Crops

 

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The Contracting Parties to the London Convention and London Protocol, at their Joint Meeting in London this week (29 October to 2 November 2012), agreed on a statement of concern regarding the iron ferti

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Commercial geoengineer obtained more than $1 million of community funds; Governments meeting in Hyderabad, India to discuss oversight of geoengineering

 

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In mid-october 2012 ETC Group, working with partners, uncovered a large-scale unauthorised geoengineering scheme that had been carried out in July 300km off the west coast of Canada, close to the islands of Haida Gwaii.

Briefing
A briefing for delegates to CBD COP11

Geoengineering refers to technologies designed to intervene in and alter earth systems on a large scale – particularly proposals to manipulate the climate system as a ‘technofix’ for climate change.

Briefing

At COP 11, government negotiators will  be asked to consider bringing a new and emerging area of industrial activity under the oversight of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Factoid
147 companies controlled nearly 40 percent of the monetary value of all transnational corporations in 2007.

That’s the finding of a new study published in July 2011 by researchers at Switzerland’s ETH Zürich, based on an analysis of 43,060 transnational corporations (TNCs) located in 116 countries. Just 737 firms account for 80% of the value of all TNCs.

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Governments mark 50 years of failure...and a couple of nano-steps forward

It’s difficult to describe Rio+20 as anything other than a tragedy.

Posters & Cartoons
ETC Group Maps Earth System Experimentation

ETC Group publishes a world map of geoengineering -- the large-scale manipulation of earth or climate systems.

Report
...in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation

The notion of a "great green technological transformation" enabling a "green economy" is now being widely promoted as the key to our planet's survival. The ultimate goal is to substitute the extravtion and refining of petroleum with the transformation of biomass.

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