Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Synthetic biology: A continuing challenge for the CBD

(1 page)

[square brackets], issue 10 (May 2016)

Business and Biodiversity: A Licence to Operate

(2 pages)

ECO 45, p. 4-6

Biotech Companies COMPACTing their responsibilties

(2 pages)

ECO 43(3) published at MOP4 in Hyderabad, October 2012 - www.cbd-alliance.org

Canada in violation of international obligations to the CBD

Ocean-fertilisation & Geoengineeiring scheme

(1 page)

ECO 44(10)

Biofuels: how many are invasive alien species?

(1 page)

ECO 40(3)

Biodiversity should not be expected to earn its living in the market

(1 page)

ECO 41(1)

Are we continuing to fuel Biodiversity Loss?

Biofuels, Bioenergy, Biochar and the Technologies of the new Bioeconomy

(2 pages)

Engineered to fail?

Climate-related Geoengineering

(2 pages)

Potential Impacts of Synthetic Biology on the Biodiversity

(54 pages)

Synthetic Biology needs urgent attention from the SBSTTA

(14 pages)

Information concerning Innovative Financial Mechanisms (IFMs): Offset Programmes

A submission to the CBD Secretariat concerning decision X/3

(13 pages)

Rio+20, the “Green Economy” and the Real Priorities

(2 pages)

Forest Cover, No. 37, p. 5-6

Green economy and biofuels: what did the CBD say ?

(1 page)

Eco "Post-COP 10", Vol 36(1), p.1 & 6

Finance, targets, green economy and innovative financial mechanisms

(1 page)

ECO "Post-COP 10", Vol 36(1), p. 5

Genetically Engineered Trees & Risk Assessment

An overview of risk assessment and risk management issues

(30 pages)

Published by the Federation of German Scientists. Presented at CBD COP9 negotiations on GE trees

Potential Ecological and Social Impacts of Genetically Engineered Trees

Commentary on the official background paper by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entitled “The Potential Environmental, Cultural and Socio-Economic Impacts of Genetically Modified Trees” (UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/13/INF/6)

(7 pages)

Prepared for CBD SBSTTA 13 Meeting, Rome, Italy, 18-22 February, 2008

Agrofuels: Towards a Reality Check in Nine Key Areas

(36 pages)

Report submitted to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in preparation for SBSTTA 12 (July 2007, Paris, France).

Briefing Paper on Transgenic Trees

Implications for Human Health, Biodiversity and Biosafety

(2 pages)

Prepared for CBD COP8 (available in English, Spanish and Portugese)

GURTs: No Case for Field Trials

(4 pages)

Briefing Paper for CBD COP8, Curitiba, Brazil

Genetically Engineered Trees: No Solution to Global Warming

UN COP-8 Briefing No. 2

(2 pages)

Prepared for CBD COP8 (available in English, Spanish and Portugese)

V-GURTs (Terminator Technology)

Design, Reality and Inherent Risks

(17 pages)

Submission to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Working Group on Article 8(j)

V-GURTs (Terminator)

Can it be effective as a biological containment tool?

(2 pages)

Based on submission and plenary intervention to SBSTTA 10 (Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity) on behalf of EcoNexus and the Federation of German Scientists.