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Sciences-fictions: le 1er septembre, la royal society de Londres rendra public un rapport majeur sur la géoingénierie

Submitted by ETC Staff on Tue, 2012-06-12 23:00

Pour etc group, il faut interdire les essais grandeur nature

La Royal Society, la plus ancienne académie des sciences du monde, s’apprête à rendre public, le 1er septembre 2009 à Londres, un rapport longtemps attendu sur la géoingénierie. On s’attend à ce que le document préparé par des experts, pour la plupart, des partisans enthousiastes de la géoingénierie, contienne des recommandations pour que les pouvoirs publics soutiennent la poursuite des recherches voire des essais grandeur nature de nouvelles technologies controversées permettant la manipulation délibérée du climat terrestre pour atténuer les effets du changement climatique.

Join the HOME (Hands Off Mother Earth) campaign.

Submitted by ETC Staff on Tue, 2012-05-29 15:57

Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E) is a global campaign to defend our one precious home, Planet Earth, against the threat of geoengineering experiments. You can join the campaign at http://www.handsoffmotherearth.org

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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.

86% of the world's biomass is located in the global South.

Submitted by ETC Staff on Mon, 2012-05-28 16:21

While from space the planet may look green and rich with biomass, the dirty little secret of the biomass economy is that – just like fossilized carbon reserves (oil, coal, natural gas) – the living carbon reserves are not equally distributed. Worldwide, land-based vegetation stores an estimated 500 billion tonnes of carbon. However 86% of that (430 billion tonnes) is stored in the tropics and sub-tropics, while boreal and temperate eco-regions store only 34 billion tonnes and 33 billion tonnes, respectively.

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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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The world's largest chemical, energy, agribusiness and pharma companies are investing in Synthetic Biology

Submitted by ETC Staff on Thu, 2012-05-10 15:34

Corporations investing in Synthetic Biology include 6 of the top 10 Chemical Companies, 6 of the top 10 Energy companies, 6 of the top 10 grain traders and the top 7 pharma companies.

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Endorse the Campaign to Ban Terminator

Submitted by ETC Staff on Mon, 2012-03-26 12:36

We invite all civil society organizations and social movements - organizations, communities, and gatherings of Indigenous peoples, farmers, peasants, churches, and all others - to endorse the campaign by signing on to the following statement. (Your group’s name will be used in a list of groups that state opposition to Terminator)

Sign the letter.

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