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ETC Group

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February 11, 2010

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Top-down Planet Hackers Call for Bottom-up Governance

Geoengineers Bid to Establish Voluntary Testing Regime Must be Opposed

While most scientists left the Copenhagen Climate Summit feeling gloomy about their influence, a small group of geoengineering advocates came away emboldened by the summit’s weak outcome and uncertain road ahead. This group of scientists aims to get on with research and experimentation in controversial geoengineering technologies. Their real excitement is over “solar radiation management†(SRM). This is a way of “cooling down the planet’s thermostat†by reflecting a portion of the sun’s rays back to outer space, through a variety of techniques ranging from sunshades in space, to aerosol sulphates in the stratosphere, to whitening clouds. These high-risk, planet-altering schemes affect global warming without changing... Read more

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12/10/2009
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Technology transfer is one of the four key topics being discussed under negotiations on Long-Term Cooperative Actions in Copenhagen (the others are mitigation, adaptation and financing). The inter-governmental negotiating text that is under discussion contemplates various measures for accelerating the diffusion of technologies. It will most likely create an Ê»Action Planʼ as well as a Ê»Technology Bodyʼ and various technical panels or innovation centres that will prove influential in the coming years in deciding which technologies get financial and political backing. We need to make sure the right technologies get the support they need and the wrong ones are discarded. That wonʼt happen without a comprehensive social and environmental assessment process. We, civil society groups and social movements from around the world, understand the urgent need for real and lasting solutions to climate change. We recognise the deadly consequences that we all face... Read more

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03/10/2009
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Grupo ETC Boletín de Prensa www.etcgroup.org 11 de marzo de 2009  

 

 

¿Aterrorizados y derretidos?

 

La sociedad civil dice "NO" mientras los geoingenieros montan un escenario de shock para asaltar el planeta. Los gobiernos entusiasmados con la geoingeniería enfrentarán al Norte con el Sur, advierten críticos

OTTAWA, Canadá — Más de 80 organizaciones de la sociedad civil de 20 países enviaron un fuerte mensaje a científicos reunidos en Copenhague, con una declaración conjunta que fue redactada durante el Foro Social Mundial en Belém, Brasil: “El mundo mejor que buscamos no es con geoingeniería.” La declaración se publica al tiempo que un pequeño... Read more
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11/12/2008
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À qui appartient la nature?

Pouvoir des grandes sociétés et ultime frontière de la marchandisation du vivant

Problèmes, obsessions et occasions : une préface

TIl y a trente ans, l’humanité avait un problème; la science avait une obsession; et l’industrie tenait une occasion. Notre problème était l’injustice. Les rangs des affamés ne cessaient de grossir et les rangs des agriculteurs, de s’affaiblir. De son côté, la science était obsédée par la biotechnologie – la possibilité de modifier génétiquement les cultures et le bétail (et l’être humain) pour les doter de traits qui allaient régler tous nos problèmes. L’industrie agroalimentaire tenait l’occasion de prélever l’énorme valeur ajoutée tout au long de la... Read more

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02/06/2009
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Grupo ETC Boletín de prensa 4 de febrero de 2009 www.etcgroup.org

El 4 de diciembre de 2008, mientras en Estados Unidos se consumían las últimas rebanadas de tarta de calabaza de la cena de Acción de Gracias, la Oficina de Patentes y Marcas Registradas de Estados Unidos (USPTO, por sus siglas en inglés) publicó la solicitud de patente número US 20080301830 A1 sobre una calabaza verrugosa, “inventada” por el director de ventas y mercadotecnia de la Siegers Seed Company en Holland, Michigan. La solicitud de patente reclama una “calabaza verrugosa… en la cual la cobertura externa incluye al menos una rugosidad asociada con la cobertura externa del cuerpo.”

“Los reclamos que hacen los ‘caza verrugas’ son ofensivos”, afirma Pat Mooney del Grupo ETC. “Las características de las calabazas varían más que casi las de cualquier otro vegetal en la... Read more

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01/26/2009
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26 de enero de 2009

En el marco del Foro Social Mundial 2009,
A celebrarse en Belém do Pará (Brasil), del 26 de enero al 1 de febrero

El Grupo de Acción sobre Erosión, Tecnología y Concentración
Grupo ETC


Invita a sus seminarios:

 

“Hacer de la crisis alimentria el último negocio”
El 30 de enero
En UFPA Básico, pabellón Hb,
15:30 a 18:30 (turno 3)

“¿De quién es la naturaleza?”
31 de enero
En UFPA Básico, pabellón Eb  E6,
15:30 a 18:30 (turno 3)

 
 
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01/15/2008
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Communiqué no. 96

Noviembre/Diciembre 2007 Con el argumento de “trascender el petróleo” las súper petroleras, los gigantes genéticos, nuevas empresas y otros actores forman alianzas que extenderán el control corporativo sobre cada vez más recursos en todos los rincones del planeta, al tiempo que las causas del cambio climático se mantienen intactas. Sin reconocer que los agrocombustibles de primera generación no son ni económicos ni ecológicos, los inversionistas ofrecen otras biotecnologías para convencernos de los combustibles alternativos. 

Asunto: En los países de la OCDE, los gobiernos proponen incentivos y subsidios masivos –tan grandes como 15 mil millones de dólares por año—  que alientan el auge de los agrocombustibles , y promueven alianzas sin precedentes para extender el control de las corporaciones sobre una enorme... Read more
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06/26/2008
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June 2008 ETC Group Translator Ciao FAO: Another "Failure-as-Usual" Food Summit   Contrary to the opinion of many, June's Food Summit actually did something. It signaled the beginning of the end for the multilateral system as we know it. Over the next six months the food emergency - and the international institutions designed to address it - could get worse.   The full text offers a line-by-line interpretation of the Food Summit's final declaration.   Issue: During the 3-5 June 2008 World Food Summit, governments patched together sufficient funds to keep the lid on food rebellions for a few months but all the fundamental and long-term institutional and financial problems remain. In Rome, governments opted for a mythical "techno-fix" led by agribusiness in collaboration with the Gates Foundation and other philanthro-capitalists. These "klepto-mandates" are usurping the multilateral system. There is also a clear power shift away from the... Read more

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05/13/2008
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Communiqué May/June 2008 Issue # 99

Patenting the “Climate Genes”… And Capturing the Climate Agenda

Issue: The world’s largest seed and agrochemical corporations are stockpiling hundreds of monopoly patents on genes in plants that the companies will market as crops genetically engineered to withstand environmental stresses such as drought, heat, cold, floods, saline soils, and more. BASF, Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta, Dupont and biotech partners have filed 532 patent documents (a total of 55 patent families) on so-called “climate ready” genes at patent offices around the world. In the face of climate chaos and a deepening world food crisis, the Gene Giants are gearing up for a PR offensive to re-brand themselves as climate saviours. The focus on so-called climate-ready genes is a golden opportunity to push genetically engineered crops as a silver bullet solution to climate change. But patented techno-fix seeds... Read more
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01/24/2008
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ETC Group News Release 24 January 2008 www.etcgroup.org

Venter Institute Builds Longest Sequence of Synthetic DNA (that Doesn’t Work)  “It’s not how long – but how wise” cautions ETC Group

ETC Group today renewed its call for a moratorium on the release and commercialization of synthetic organisms, asserting that societal debate on the oversight of synthetic biology is urgently overdue. The renewed call came as J. Craig Venter’s research team announced that it has constructed a bacterial-length synthetic genome in the lab using mail-order synthetic DNA sequences. They’ve named the synthetic genome, Mycoplasma genitalium JCVI-1.0, and it’s similar to its counterpart in nature, a genital bacterium with the smallest known genome of any free living organism. The announcement is not breaking news because the work had been previously reported, but the details were published today in Science.

“Venter is... Read more

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