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ETC's View

ETC Group calls for the creation of an international technology evaluation and information mechanism to assess the health, environmental, economic and social impacts of new and emerging technologies.

Governments should adopt a process to develop an international technology evaluation and information mechanism – based on the Precautionary Principle – that will strengthen national sovereignty and build capacity, especially in the global South, to assess the health, environmental, economic and social impacts of new and emerging technologies such as biotechnology, nanotechnology and synthetic biology.

 

ETC Group warns that if powerful new technologies are put in the hands of the military, corporations or undemocratic governments they will be used to surpress dissent, enforce social control and wage war against marginalized and vulnerable groups.

ETC supports open, equitable and democratic global governance that recognizes the expertise and enables full participation of civil society and social movements – especially indigenous, farming and local communities.

ETC Group's view on International Governance

ETC supports open, equitable and democratic global governance arrangements that recognize the expertise and enable full participation of social movements – especially indigenous, farming and local communities – and other civil society organizations.

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