UN CBD Fails to Protect Forests from Genetically Engineered Trees
Bonn, Germany—Under heavy pressure from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, New Zealand and Australia, the Convention on Biological Diversity's Ninth Conference of the Parties failed to pass a moratorium on the release of genetically engineered trees into the environment despite support for a global ban endorsed by hundreds of organizations around the world, and the unified efforts to stop GE trees carried out by NGOs, Indigenous Peoples' Organizations, scientists and foresters present at ... posted: 06/16/2008 01:03:13 Read More |
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GJEP/ STOP GE Trees Campaign Interventions at UN Biodiversity Convention
The following five interventions were made by Co-Director Anne Petermann to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's Ninth Conference of the Parties in support of a global ban on GE trees. The final intervention was never read since the President of the COP would not allow Petermann to speak.Intervention, 5/30/08Thank you Mr. President,I speak today on behalf of Global Forest Coalition, which is a coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples Organizations from 6 continents, as ...posted: 06/16/2008 01:02:54 Read More |
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Activists Symbolically Cut Frankentrees to Save Forests and Demand Ban on GE Trees
For more photos from the action, go to http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/gallery.php?catIDBonn, Germany--Activists today stepped up their campaign for a ban on genetically engineered trees when they symbolically cut Genetically Engineered frankentrees that attempted to invade a tree planting ceremony outside of the meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)."We came here to this event because this tree planting ceremony is representative of corporate green-washing initiatives pretending to protect biodiversity," said Peter Gerhardt of the German ...posted: 06/16/2008 01:02:24 Read More |
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Women Tell Forest Industry: Plantations are Not Forests!
Rheinsches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany--On Friday evening, 23 May 2008, women from the Orange Bloc surprised the 'German Forestry Council Forest and Wood For a Future With Life of Quality Get Together' at their side event in the museum. One by one, during a cocktail and appetizer party on the museum's roof, women stood on a chair and spoke out against monoculture timber plantations, genetically engineered trees and cellulosic ethanol.Although a few of the timber industry ...posted: 06/16/2008 01:01:58 Read More |
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Governments Prioritize Forest Exploitation Many Governments Fail to Comply with CBD Mandate
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Bonn, Germany--Global Forest Coalition [1] released a major report, "Forests and the Biodiversity Convention," [2] at the Convention on Biological Diversity today. This report contains the summaries and research undertaken in 22 countries [3] by independent country monitors [4] to examine whether or not Parties are implementing the decisions ... posted: 06/16/2008 01:01:22 Read More |
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Groups and Scientists Call for Halt to Releases of Genetically Engineered Trees
Bonn, Germany--Organizations and scientists [1] from around the world spoke today about their opposition to genetically engineered trees which will be negotiated at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's Ninth Conference of the Parties (CBD COP-9) beginning next week in Bonn. They are demanding that governments at the UN agree to accept the proposal to suspend all releases of genetically engineered (GE) trees into the ...posted: 05/16/2008 11:42:28 Read More |
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Organizations From Around the World Attend UN Convention on Biological Diversity In Bonn to Demand Protection for Ecosystems, Wildlife, Forests and...
Organizations From Around the World Attend UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Bonn to Demand Protection for Ecosystems, Wildlife, Forests and Indigenous RightsCompiled by Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project and Global Forest Coalition.Organizations around the world are congregating in Bonn, Germany through the end of the month in an attempt to participate in and influence the outcomes of the Ninth Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP-9).Simultaneous ...posted: 05/13/2008 11:39:03 Read More |
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Losing The Forests For the Trees: Tree Monocultures and Biofuels
Fueling the Debate: Agrofuels, Biodiversity, and Our Energy Future (#9)Losing the Forest for the Trees: Tree Monocultures and the Biofuel BoomCarmelo Ruiz Marrero | May 1, 2008Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)http://americas.irc-online.org/ Using trees for fuel as part of the agrofuels boom means cultivation of massive monoculture tree plantations. They are already present in Chile, Uruguay, and Brazil to supply lumber as well as paper pulp, and due to the destruction ...posted: 05/09/2008 11:57:56 Read More |
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Here's a Bad Idea: Gas From Trees
By Josh Schlossberg, The Eugene Register-GuardPublished: April 27, 2008 12:00AMIndustry lapdog. Dishonest shill. Shameless profiteer. These are someof the names I've heard people call Martin Jack Desmond after hisApril 20 guest viewpoint pushing cellulosic ethanol as a solution tothe rising cost and dwindling supply of gasoline.But I'm going to give Desmond the benefit of the doubt: I'm willingto believe he really thinks he's doing a good thing. ... posted: 05/09/2008 11:57:40 Read More |
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Final decision on GE grass: Company's appeal dismissed
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -D.C. Circuit Court says “No” to Scotts and Monsanto on Biotech GrassesRuling is Latest in a String of Victories in Which the Center for Food Safety Successfully Challenged Inadequate Oversight of Biotech CropsWashington, DC, March 19, 2008 – The Center for Food Safety announced today that a Federal Court of Appeals has tossed out the appeal of Scotts Grass Company, ending a long-running dispute over the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) ... posted: 04/09/2008 10:51:00 Read More |
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Press Release: USDA Decision on GE Poplars
ISIS Press Release 07/03/08USDA FONSI for Transgenic Poplars Absurd & DangerousProf. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho of the Insititute for Science in Society (ISIS) expose cavalier risk assessment that ignores existing evidence and takes absence of evidence as evidence of absence.A fully referenced version of this report was submitted to USDA on behalf of ISIS.The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (APHIS/USDA) received a permit application (APHIS ... posted: 05/09/2008 11:57:28 Read More |
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Week of Events and Protest at CBD Meeting in Rome
Delegates representing governments attending the SBSTTA (subsidiary body) of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Rome, Italy were greeted with a demonstration against genetically engineered trees and agrofuels as they entered the plenary session on February 21. This CBD body is discussing those issues, and more, prior to the CBD's Conference of the Parties in Bonn, Germany in May of this year. Photo: Langelle/Global Justice Ecology ProjectBrief report on the five days of ...posted: 02/22/2008 10:54:13 Read More |
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Statement Demanding GE Tree Ban Read at CBD Meeting
The following statement was read to the full plenary of the SBSTTA meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity on 21 February, 2008 in Rome, Italy:GE trees are a tremendous threat to forest biodiversity, and to forest dependent and indigenous communities.This body is not acknowledging this. Instead of strengthening the decision on GE trees made at the last COP, this body is considering weakening the decision, paving the way to commercialize this deadly and ... posted: 02/22/2008 10:46:52 Read More |
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Groups Issue International Joint Commentary on GE Trees
Groups from all over the world joined together at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's SBSTTA meeting in Rome, Italy in February to demand that the CBD issue a moratorium on the release of genetically engineered trees into the environment. They are joining together again at the Ninth Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Bonn, Germany May 19-30, 2008 to demand the UN immediately stop ... posted: 05/08/2008 12:24:14 Read More |
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USDA Approves Release of GE Poplar in Oregon
For background information on the concerns with this release of GE poplar, please click below:http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/stopgetrees.php?IDAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service[Docket No. APHIS-2007-0018]Oregon State University; Availability of an EnvironmentalAssessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for a ControlledRelease of Genetically Engineered Populus Species and HybridsAGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.ACTION: Notice.-----------------------------------------------------------------------SUMMARY: We are advising the public that an environmental assessmenthas been prepared for a proposed controlled field release ofgenetically engineered ... posted: 02/19/2008 07:32:26 Read More |
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GE Tree Report Failure May Bring Tears To Onions
Press Release: Soil and Health Association5 February 2008Failure in GE Tree Reporting May Bring Tears To Crop & Food's Onion Trial.State-owned GE tree researcher Scion has been negligent in itsreporting, as has GE trial auditor MAF Biosecurity New Zealand, andthe Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) may have beencomplicit in this, the Soil & Health Association has discovered.Scion's annual report to ERMA has been presented online recently*,but although all previous annual reports record that rabbits havebeen ... posted: 02/11/2008 12:05:39 Read More |
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APHIS Strengthens Regulations Governing Release of GE Trees and Other Perennials
News From The Biotechnology Regulatory Services of APHIS (the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service) APHIS oversees the release of genetically engineered organisms in the United States. The policy clarification below is very likely a result of a legal case against APHIS that resulted from the escape of genetically engineered bentgrass from a test plot in Oregon. It directly impacts the release of genetically engineered trees, which also fall under the category of perennials and have ... posted: 01/31/2008 12:51:23 Read More |
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World Congress on the Future of Food and Agriculture
Global Justice Ecology Project supports this call to participate in:PLANET DIVERSITYlocal, diverse, GMO-freeWorld Congress on the Future of Food and AgricultureBonn, Germany. May 12 – 16, 2008Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Friends of a diverse planet!"Planet Diversity" will be a global congress and festival on the future of food and agriculture, organised by NGOs, GMO-Free Regions, farmers and social movements around the world. From May 12th to 16th 2008 this event will involve about 500 ...posted: 01/31/2008 12:51:15 Read More |
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Unregulated Release of GM Poplars and Hybrids
USDA rubberstamps the largest ever collection of genetically engineered poplars with uncharacterized and dangerous constructs The attached report details information on dangerous field trials of GE poplars in Oregon. It was written by Professor Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and submitted to the USDA in response to an environmental assessment prepared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA/APHIS). The EA was prepared for the permit application received from ...posted: 01/31/2008 12:51:03 Read More |
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Experts and Scientists to Meet In Opposition to Genetically Engineered Trees
Media Advisory August 14, 2007 ***Interviews Available***Contact: Orin Langelle /Global Justice Ecology Project +1.802.482.2689 (office Tuesday) and +1.802.578.6980 (mobile on site)Phiona Hamilton-Gordon /Global Justice Ecology Project +1.802.999.6654 (mobile on site)Hinesburg, VT (U.S.)--Scientists and experts from the U.S. and Canada will meet this week in Vermont to plan campaign strategies to ban the development and commercialization of genetically engineered trees.Experts and ...posted: 01/31/2008 12:50:53 Read More |
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GE Trees and Aracruz Cellulose in Brazil: Urgent Sign on Letter
URGENT World Rainforest Movement Alert: Stora Enso & Aracruz Cellulose: new 78,000 hectare plantation in BrazilFrom: "Andrew Boswell" <a_boswell_2004@yahoo.co.uk> Thu, 9 Aug 2007Please see below for information from World Rainforest Movement about plans by the Swedish-Finnish company Stora Enso and the Norwegian-Brazilian company Aracruz Cellulose, for a new 78,000 hectare monoculture timber plantation in Brazil. Stora Enso have made clear their plans to produce new-generation biofuels from wood residues. Read their release.A demonstration biofuels plant ...posted: 01/31/2008 12:50:43 Read More |
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GE Plum Deregulated Despite Overwhelming Public Rejection
Institute for Science In Society Press Release 26 July, 2007Transgenic Plum Gets USDA Non-regulated Status Based on False Claims of SafetyProf. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho rebut USDA conclusion that transgenic DNA and RNA are non-toxic. After receiving over 1700 public comments on its GE "Honeysweet" plum, which opposed it at a rate of over 100 to 1, (1725 to 1708) the USDA approved its use anyway.For full story, click ... posted: 01/31/2008 12:50:32 Read More |
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Press Release Issued on Impacts of Biofuels
For Immediate Release 6 July 2007Government Experts at UN Body Express Strong Concern About Biofuel Impacts on BiodiversityParis, France--An overwhelming majority of governments, including Norway, Sweden, Germany and Indonesia expressed serious concerns about the risks of large-scale production of biofuels to forests, ecosystems, indigenous peoples and local communities at a meeting of a UN scientific advisory body on biodiversity in Paris this week [1]. Several governments called for a precautionary approach to biofuels.A large number ... posted: 01/31/2008 12:50:24 Read More |
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Open Letter to UN CBD Scientific Body To Ban GE Trees
(Urgent from Global Justice Ecology Project and World Rainforest Movement of the Stop Genetically Engineered Trees Campaign)If your organization can sign on to this letter please email Ana Filippini at World Rainforest Movement by February 13.Open letter to all members of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA)February, 2008The undersigned, members of organizations from countries where research on the genetic modification of trees is being carried out, ...posted: 06/12/2008 11:12:53 Read More |
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GE Tree Giant ArborGen Receives Approval for Flowering GE Tree Field Trial
GE tree giant ArborGen has received permission from the USDA to take the next step toward implementing their plans to develop non-native genetically engineered cold tolerant eucalyptus trees. Eucalyptus is widely known for its extreme flammability. In areas of California, invasive eucalyptus are being eradicated for this very reason.In addition to ...posted: 01/31/2008 12:49:16 Read More |
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World Rainforest Movement Southern Hub for STOP GE Trees Campaign
In November 2006 Uruguay-based World Rainforest Movement agreed to be the Southern Hub of the STOP GE Trees Campaign. WRM will help distribute information on the dangers of GE trees and the plans by industry to develop GE trees to movements, communities and activists throughout Latin America and the Global South. WRM distributes information in Spanish, Portuguese and French in addition to English. We will be working ...posted: 07/24/2007 03:08:18 Read More |
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A Silent Forest: The Growing Threat, Genetically Engineered Trees
This award winning DVD nararrated by Dr. David Suzuki, discusses the threats posed by genetically engineered trees to our environment and to human health. Subtitled in Spanish and Chinese Bonus Feature- Preview of World Rainforest Movement's Green InvasionAwards: First Place- EarthVision Environmental Film Festival First Place- Forests- Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival To order the DVD click here
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