ETC's View

ETC Group has called for a moratorium on the environmental release or commercial use of nanomaterials, a ban on self-assembling nanomaterials and on patents on nanoscale technologies.

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ETC's view on International governance

ETC Group's view on International Governance ETC supports open, equitable and democratic global governance arrangements that recognize the expertise and enable full participation of social movements – especially indigenous, farming and local communities – and other civil society organizations.

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ETC Group warns that if powerful new technologies are put in the hands of the military, corporations or undemocratic governments they will be used to surpress dissent, enforce social control and wage war against marginalized and vulnerable groups.

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ETC Group calls for a ban on all testing or deployment of geoengineering technologies and supports a move away from intensive agriculture towards strengthening of agroecological and peasant-led agricultural systems.

ETC Group is critical of the so-called New Bioeconomy. We call for an end to the grab on land, biomass and biological processes. We support strengthening existing traditional bio-based economies.

ETC Group advocates for a global ban on Terminator and other 'gene-switching' technologies that impact food sovereignty. ETC Group proposes specific recommendations for monitoring, analyzing and independently regulating New Enclosures.

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ETC Group opposes intellectual property rights that undermine control of communities over their own culture and resources and strengthen corporate power.

ETC Group's View on Biopiracy

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ETC Group opposes market monopoly in sectors impacting biodiversity, health and livelihoods in the global South.

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Just say "know" in Rio

Rio+20 must take bold steps to bring international technology policy into the 21st century by ensuring that precautionary and participatory assessment is developed and by adopting a comprehensive test ban on geoengineering.

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