Is the UN Convention on Biodiversity losing the precautionary plot?
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'Tech Won't Save Us' podcast with ETC Group
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The potential consequences of the digitalization of agriculture
As COP-15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity approaches (it's scheduled for December 2022, in Montreal, Canada) it becomes ever more essential to understand why horizon-scanning, technology assessment and the monitoring of new technologies must be included in the new Global Biodiversity Framework. Digitalization of the food system is a good example of why this is so important.
False Solutions Alert: Geoengineering in Climate Negotiations
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Geoengineering comprises a set of technologies that include interventions on land, in the oceans, or in the atmosphere.
Geoengineering – the large-scale and intentional technological manipulation of the planet’s climate – is creeping onto the agenda and into the processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) despite multiple concerns about potential environmental and social impacts.
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WEBINAR - Geoengineering in Climate Negotiations
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Get the latest with Neth Daño, Silvia Ribeiro and Niki Martinez
Under the radar of many people and governments, several risky geoengineering techniques are being considered at UN climate negotiations. Most are speculative technologies that could cause even more climate chaos and function as a costly distraction from real solutions.
This webinar, cohosted by ETC Group and RLS will provide an overview of the likely and unlikely places where geoengineering might pop up at UN climate negotiations.
Amidst rising hunger, new report shows corporate concentration in agrifood industry threatens an already vulnerable food system.
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Food Barons 2022, names and ranks the largest food corporations dominating each link of the 8-10 trillion dollar commercial industrial food chain.
New report online at: https://etcgroup.org/content/food-barons-2022
Food delivery
Food Barons 2022
Grocery retail
Food Barons 2022
Big meat & protein
Food Barons 2022
Agricultural commodity trading
Food Barons 2022
Animal Pharma
Food Barons 2022
Machinery for big ag
Food Barons 2022
Livestock genetics
Food Barons 2022
Synthetic fertilizers
Food Barons 2022
Agrochemicals & commercial seeds
Food Barons 2022
Food Barons 2022
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Crisis Profiteering, Digitalization and Shifting Power
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Annual report
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2021
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Financial report
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Years covered:
2019-2020
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Financial Report
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2018-2019
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GBF talks in Nairobi risk heading in wrong direction
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Indigenous and Global South communities are biodiversity experts, not Silicon Valley
With Global Biodiversity Framework negotiations about to wrap up in Nairobi this article was drafted to address some of the broader narratives that shape issues like horizon scanning, ‘30 by 30’ and technology assessment negotiations within the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This context is especially important for ensuring that gender, human rights and Indigenous rights are at the center of protecting and ensuring biodiversity for the future.
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