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Actions during the UN Biodiversity Summit in Bonn (MOP4/COP9)
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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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Bayer Abandons GM crops in India and UK
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15th Nov: In an admission of immense significance to the entire genetic engineering industry, Bayer Crop Science has conceded to Greenpeace India that all of its projects on genetically engineered crops in India have been "discontinued" [see newswire report | Bayer Admission Letter (pdf) | Greenpeace Statement]
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COP7: Convention on Biodiversity
Some 2500 delegates currently meet in Malaysia to negotiate about how to protect biodiversity and about genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the Biodiversity Convention (CBD) and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. There are numerous open issues and concerns (Summary) like the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, Protected Areas (1 | 2), Technology Transfer, Access and Benefit Sharing, Traditional Knowledge, Biopiracy (1|2), as well as 'smaller' issues like the rights of coastal fishing communities, Terminator seeds/GURTs (video). Besides the delegates, there are numerous members from NGOs and from Indigenous Peoples organizations, because in contrast to other UN conventions the CBD allows for some relevant participation, even though of course there is a lack of equity, and for the usual side events and actions like the Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy or the Biodiversity Sale
The main fight has been so far to keep the WTO out of the CBD and to secure the right of Indigenous Peoples in New Zealand. [ Updates, statements, reports and video interviews from COP7/MOP1 are posted on BiotechIMC | Daily ECO newsletter | ETC group | Third World Network | Biotech Slam Poetry | video interviews: Terminator 1 | Terminator 2 | Technology Transfer | Pesticides| UK environmental minister on GM crops in the UK (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6) ]
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Big Biodiverstity Sale
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To better fit in with the general attitude on biodiversity as commercial good, Friends of the Earth today took the chance to hold a Big Biodiversity Sale at COP7, "wholeheartedly supported by our good friends in the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, UN Environment Program, UN Development Program, the Ramsar Convention, UNCAT, and not to forget: the great godfather of us all: the WTO!"
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Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy
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The coalition Against Biopiracy presented the Captain Hook Awards 2004 for Biopiracy.
Among the winners are the Brazilian President Lula for Worst Betrayal, Monsanto, the USA, and the CBD's Bonn Guidelines on Access and Benefit-Sharing
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