Actions during the UN Biodiversity Summit in Bonn (MOP4/COP9)

editorial team , 05.05.2008 10:21

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:
English | Castellano | Deutsch

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