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The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) took a groundbreaking decision by addressing geoengineering and its potential impacts on biodiversity and people early on.
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COP15: An interview with Christine von Weizsäcker
by Zahra Moloo
(Click on the link below to listen to the interview.)
As preliminary meetings of the Open-Ended Working Group wrap up and official COP meetings begin, ECOROPA’s Christine von Weizsäcker talks to ETC Group about evaluating new genetic technologies and the rights of indigenous people in the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
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TIME: 18.15, Wednesday, December 7 2022
LOCATION: Business and Industry Organizations Meeting Room
Light refreshments will be served
Since its earliest days, the CBD has prioritised the precautionary approach to assess and monitor the impacts of new technologies. In an era of rapid technologically-driven change and ever greater technological power, policymakers need the means to see and prepare for disruptive trends. Come and hear:
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Afin que la CDB maintienne son engagement de longue date envers le principe de précaution et que les Parties aient les moyens d’agir de manière responsable et prudente, des décisions doivent être prises dès maintenant pour faire avancer les travaux critiques sur l’analyse prospective, l’évaluation et la surveillance des technologies nouvelles et émergentes — plus particulièrement les biotechnologies modernes.
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As newspaper headlines that warn of the increasing numbers of animal and plant life facing extinction become ever more urgent, delegates have begun to trickle into the Palais de Congres in downtown Montreal for the COP 15 global biodiversity summit under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The building is cordoned off on all sides by an astonishing number of police guarding the streets and patrolling on bike, cars and horseback.
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On the third day of the UNFCCC's COP-27 in Sharm El-Sheikh there are already worrying developments on geoengineering, which has been creeping into climate negotiations over the last couple of years, very much under the banner of ‘Net Zero’ and carbon removals.
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You can listen to this 5-minute mini-podcast (in English) here.