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MONTREAL/TIOHTIÀ:KE/UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE KANIEN’KEHÁ:KA NATION – Climber-activists today dropped 80-foot banners reading, “Biodiversity versus Billionaires,” visible from Montreal’s Palais des Congres where world leaders are meeting at the UN’s landmark Biodiversity COP15.

December 12, 2022, Montreal, Canada – Eighty-three national and international organizations from forty countries have released an open letter calling on the parties to the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (CBD) to say no to geoengineering and yes to protecting biodiversity, the environment, the climate, the rights of Indigenous peoples and the human rights of local communities.

El Convenio de Naciones Unidas sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CDB) tomó una decisión pionera al abordar desde el principio la geoingeniería y sus posibles efectos sobre la biodiversidad y las personas. En un loable ejemplo de previsión y precaución, el CDB ha tomado decisiones consensuadas de gran relevancia sobre la geoingeniería en varias reuniones de la Conferencia de las Partes (COP) y del Órgano Subsidiario de Asesoramiento Científico, Técnico y Tecnológico (OSACTT) desde 2008[1].

COP15: An interview with Christine von Weizsäcker

by Zahra Moloo

(Click on the link below to listen to the interview.)

As preliminary meetings of the Open-Ended Working Group wrap up and official COP meetings begin, ECOROPA’s Christine von Weizsäcker talks to ETC Group about evaluating new genetic technologies and the rights of indigenous people in the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).