Quick Reads

Voices from COP15 in Montreal

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An interview with Christine von Weizsäcker of ECOROPA
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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).

Protecting Precaution in the CBD

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Establishing Technology Horizon Scanning, Assessment & Monitoring in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

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:

En jeu à la COP15

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Intégrer l’analyse prospective, l’évaluation technologique et le suivi au futur cadre de la CDB!

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.

Landmark ‘nature’ COP taxis for take-off

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Three targets in the Global Biodiversity Framework that could impact our planet's future

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.

'Tech Won't Save Us' podcast with ETC Group

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The potential consequences of the digitalization of agriculture
Tech Won't Save Us podcast cover with photo of Jim Thomas
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.
 

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