Quick Reads es

ETC Group reinvigorates its quest to track emerging technologies and scrutinise corporate concentration

On our 40th anniversary and following our 2025 AGM, ETC Group’s Board and Staff met for four days in Madrid, in early August, to build a new plan of action, laser-focused on challenging corporate concentration and tech ‘broligarchy’ chauvinism
ETC Group board and staff group photo, Plaza Mayor, Madrid

We see a gathering tsunami of emerging (and converging) corporate technologies being super-charged by increasingly rapid developments in digital/AI, bioengineering and geoengineering technologies. The new corporate constellation of a few men with vast personal wealth operating within the existing hegemonic capitalist financial system is also being used to influence key governmental policy-making spaces, sidelining democratic processes and excluding civil society.

La polinización, el entendimiento y sus cuidados

Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas 125

Editorial de Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas 125

 

Los misiles iluminan el cielo con sus rayos de muerte. Estallan en los barrios, en escuelas, hospitales, viviendas y cultivos. No les importa asesinar porque quienes mueren no sólo no les importan a quienes envían esas bombas de precisión, sino que les estorban.

AfriTAP Webinar Exposes the Growing Threat of Biodigital Technologies to Africa’s Food Sovereignty

AfriTAP, AFSA and ETC’s online webinar on “Understanding Biodigital Technologies: A Global Overview and Impact on Food Systems” was led by Jim Thomas of Scan the Horizon

African Leadership Rejects Solar Geoengineering at AMCEN20

As the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment draws to a close in Nairobi, climate justice movements are celebrating the leadership of African governments in rejecting dangerous solar geoengineering technologies.

18 July, 2025

Nairobi, Kenya

As the 20th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN20) comes to an end, climate justice groups and movements are celebrating African governments continued  leadership in rejecting dangerous solar geoengineering technologies.

Victory at AMCEN!

African countries unanimously reject Solar Radiation Management

African ministers made history in Nairobi today, at the 20th Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), when they agreed to a text forcefully rejecting SRM and calling for a solar geoengineering Non-Use Agreement.

This is a huge win for Africa! The text was adopted without any challenge from African countries.

Páginas