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Actions during the UN Biodiversity Summit in Bonn (MOP4/COP9)
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bonn2008-logo Nature for people - not for business!

The 4th Meeting of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (MOP 4) and the 9th Conference of the Parties (COP 9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are taking place in Bonn from the 12th to 30th May.

Behind the disguise of nature protection, transnational companies use these negotiations to increase their control over natural resources. Many of the solutions they push for to tackle climate change and the loss of biodiversity (agrofuel, GM crops and trees, Terminator, protected areas,...) in fact lead to the privatisation of biodiversity, at the expense of rural and indigenous communities.

A coalition of social movements and activists' networks calls to protests under the motto "Nature for people, not for business!" We believe that in front of massive environmental destruction resulting from the plundering of resources by corporate interests, the priorities are an immediate end to privatisation and a fair distribution of natural resources in the benefit of local communities. Deutsch | Castellano

Join the mobilisations, resistance is fertile!

Aktion reports & pictures | reportages de acciones & fotos | Aktionsberichte & Bilder
- 17-5 Action against Bayer | Aktion gegen Bayer | Acción contra Bayer
- 18-5 Agrofuel action in Bonn | Agrospritaktion in Bonn | Acción contra agrocombustibles
- 19-5 Via Campesina demo at the opening of the COP
- 19-5 Protest against biopiracy and GMO-patents
- 22-5 Shareholders celebrate UN Profitdiversity day
- 22-5 Via Campesina Disrupts plenary CBD | Via Campesina Unterbricht CBD
- 23-5 protest against patenting in front of conference building.
- 27-5 Activists Symbolically Cut Trees to Stop GE Trees

Films
- 19-5 Mystica theatre on Münsterplatz
- an overview of short movies with statements from the South, made in Bonn on You Tube.
- 18-5 Video report of the Agrofuel action

Reports from the negotiations in the MOP4/COP9 | Berichte von den Verhandlungen bei MOP4/COP9
- Undercovercop (updates from the inside)
- read the daily ECO, published by the 'civil society community'.

Actionprogram:
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Practical Information : English | Deutsch

Background Information : La Via Campesina | BUKO Kapagne gegen Biopiraterie | A SEED Europe

Calls to Action for COP9 + Llamadas a la accion + Aktionsaufrufe: english | Catellano | Deutsch | Nederlands
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Copenhagen COP15 Practical Information
Cop15 Mobilisatie

All the practical information you will need when you arrive in Copenhagen.
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Via Campesina Disrupts CBD
Aktionsbündnis

No agrodiversity without farmers VIA CAMPESINA JOINS BIODIVERSITY DAY CELEBRATIONS

This afternoon activists from all over the world have hung a banner, banged on teacups and handed out messages by Via Campesina during the official celebrations of Biodiversity Day at the 9th Conference of Parties (COP-9) of the UN convention on Biodiversity. They did so at the end of a message by UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon read by the Programme Officer of the Secretariat of the CBD to the distinguished delegates of the Convention.
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Engaged adbusting during the CBD in Bonn
adbuster

Stop driving, start biking We combined our Bonn sightseeing tour with some adbusting. The city of Bonn has placed 450 billboards around the town: “Biological diversity needs our engagement” Nice, but oh so vague – they fail to say anything about how and why our lifestyles are destroying biodiversity, or how to preserve it. To prevent further loss of biodiversity we have to challenge not only our shopping habits, but also the corporate-governmental elites who are driving the destruction.
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Agrofuels during the CBD in Bonn
Aktionsbündnis

puppets-and-banner An overview of agrofuel related background information, actionplans, workshops, statements, press releases and links to active organisations.
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Portuguese anti-GM crop action classified as terrorism.
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Portuguese Judicial Police classifies action against genetically modified corn as a "terrorist" act in Europol report.


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GM Watch Podcasts
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A few weeks ago GM Watch started producing podcasts: audiofiles with interviews and reports on GM issues, adding another dimension to their excellent email list on - to say it in their own words - "the use of hype, propaganda and spin to promote this technology, and on exposing the role played by corporate-friendly scientists, industry front groups, PR companies, lobbyists, and political groups."

02 July 2006 How pro-GM lobbyists promote the GM agenda
25 June 2006 Illegal GM crops in Brazil and China
19 June 2006 GM pharmaceutical crops; Monsanto's GM rBGH
11 June 2006 Feeding the world and biotech PR; Doubts about drugs
5 June 2006 GM Cotton in India, worrying new research on GM Corn
1 June 2006 watching genetic modification around the world
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Alert: Stop Release of 1st Temperate GE Tree (Plum)
Global Justice Ecology Project

The US Department of Agriculture is accepting public comments between now and July 17, 2006 on a petition that would allow commercial growing and marketing of the first genetically engineered (GE) plum trees. If approved, this would remove all regulatory oversight of this GE variety, a virus-resistant plum tree known as the Honey Sweet Pox Potyvirus Resistant plum. This would open the door to GE varieties of many other related stone fruits, such as peaches, apricots, cherries and almonds, that are susceptible to the same virus. Ironically, this virus is not even found in the US today according to the USDA, and is certainly not a significant agricultural problem here.

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waking up to breakfast in amsterdam, dying for soya in south america...
zoe

last week I had breakfast with two lovely activists in a squat in amsterdam. we had no soya milk, but strangely enough, soy was in almost everything else on the table except for the coffee (curdling? yick). but where does this soya come from, and why are kids dying for it to reach our tables? this interview begins to tell the story....
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Eucalyptus Industry applies pressure to allow genetic
Brazil IMC

The subject of the genetically modified trees entered the lineup of the COP8 on this Thursday, March 30th. Korea and Venezuela presented a text that asked the moratorium on plantations or experiments with genetically modified trees, until more profound studies have been conducted. This discussion was not approved during the morning, which made possible meetings between countries and its delegations, before the discussion got resumed in the afternoon. The lobby of big corporations that form part of the Brazilian Delegation succeeded in getting the lawyer for Embrapa, Dr Simone Meira Dias, to represent Brazil. Simone, contradicting the agreement reached by the Delegation, spoke against the moratorium, as did Canada and Austria.

Audio:: NGO Biogaucha Defense | Claudio Roberto, executive secretary of MMA

Articles:: Brazil without leadership | Lobby of biotechnology companies | Brazil start world’s biggest forestall experiment| Field Work | CTNbio web site | NGO Biogaucha Defense web site

Older Features:: Three Countries block MOP3 | Brasil defends labelling, but biosafety is not granted | Expotrade prevents sale of organic meal | Via Campesina pressures the Brazilian Government at UN conference opening | Via Campesina's Parallel Convention Takes Shape | Worldwide Convention will discuss biosafety at Curitiba

Related Links:: Biotech IMC | Coptrix | Mea Bulletin | CDB web site | Brazilian government web site about CDB | Eco Info | UK Agricultural Biodiversity Coalition | FBOMS


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"We're practically in a play"
IMC BRAZIL

Pahlaços

With this sentence, Fernando Mathias, from the Social-Environmental Insitute, sums up the indecision of the Biological Diversity Convention (CDB-COP8) on the matter of access to genetical resources and division of benefits. According to him, the conflict of interests between countries that hold genetical resources (underdeveloped) and countries that hold the tecnology to explore them (developed) is being moved to foruns where developed countries are stronger, like Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Reinforcing the tesis of the ending of CDB's competences, the president of the US, George W. Bush, has sent to the american congress a law project for a 50% reduction on the amount of resources sent to the Global Environment Facility (GEF). GEF is responsible for maintaining CDB, which is in serious danger of becoming unviable in case the project is aproved.


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Terminator rejected! A victory for the people
www.banterminator.org

Just an hour ago here in Brazil, the Chair of the UN meeting announced that governments have agreed to reject language that would have undermined the moratorium on Terminator.
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VIA CAMPESINA PRESSURES Brazilian GOVERNMENT IN THE OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE UN
AGAINST GENETICALLY MODIFIED

At the monday's afternoon(03/13), in the metropolitan region of Curitiba, the Via Campesina carried out a march during the opening of the MOP3. The peasants were pressure the brazilian government for that this mark favorable position to make clear the labelling of genetically modified shipments. Around 500 militants entered marching in the Expotrade Pinhas, to participate of the Global Forum of the Civil Society, organized by NGOs and social movements.

PICTURES OF VIA CAMPESINA ACT

know more: [MOP3] march 13rd | Notes about debates 13/03


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Biosafety agreement reached in Curitiba
from www.haerlin.org/bsp

It was with relief but mixed feelings that the delegates and observers of the Biosafety Protocol meeting in Curitiba welcomed a last minute agreement on the contentious issue of identification and documentation of international shipments of GMOs in food, feed and for processing. After 4 days of intensive negotiations, which went into 6 a.m. in the morning of Friday in the "friends of the chair" drafting group and lasted until 8 p.m.
in the plenary a deal was found that does improve the previous interim provisions but fall short of what the large majority of countries wanted. The last watering down of the text, orchestrated by the US and industry, was carried out by Mexico and Paraguay.

[ IPS Biosafety Protocol Alive, but Restricted | Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage of Biosafety Protocol | Greenpeace: Better than nothing | Biotech Trade Watch: 2f5032d Video of last negotiations, Interview with Li Lim Lin (TWN) on results | Friends of the Earth: International Safety Laws Agreed ]
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Interesses comerciais vencem na MOP3
CURITIBA: MOP3COP8

Após uma semana marcada pelo impasse da rotulagem de cargas transgênicas,a Reunião das Partes do Protocolo de Cartagena (MOP3) alcançou o consenso pela proposta do contém transgênicos. O acordo foi atingido com a inclusão de um adendo proposto pelo México, que junto com Nova Zelândia e outros países estava bloqueando o avanço das negociações. O resultado pode ser considerado uma vitória das transnacionais de biotecnologia, pois o prazo para regulamentação foi estendido de quatro para seis anos, e foi eliminada a identificação obrigatória de exportações e importações de produtos geneticamente modificados no comércio entre países membros (que adotaram o Protocolo) e aqueles não-membros (que não adotaram o Protocolo). Desse modo o documento final permite importações de transgênicos originados de países não signatários do protocolo, como os EUA. Os EUA, apesar de não ter ratificado o protocolo, mandou uma forte delegação pra fazer o lobby de seus interesses.

[LEIA MAIS]: Acordo com o México possibilita consenso sobre o "contém" | Terminator, a próxima batalha em Curitiba | Indecisão na MOP 3: secretário executivo antecipa impasse entre os países | ritual de abertura do Fórum Internacional Indígena | ritual de abertura do Fórum internacional indígena II

Editoriais Anteriores:: Três Países Bloqueiam a MOP3 | Brasil defende rotulagem, mas biossegurança não está garantida | Expotrade impede venda de refeição orgânica | Via Campesina pressiona governo brasileiro na abertura da Conferência da ONU | Toma forma a Convenção Paralela da Via Campesina | Convenção mundial discutirá biossegurança em Curitiba

Sites Relacionados:: biotech.indymedia.org | www.cop8.org.br | www.iisd.ca | www.biodiv.org | www.fboms.org.br
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