List of EcoNexus Publications

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)

Swords and Ploughshares

Industrial agriculture as warfare and the need for a paradigm shift

in Angie Zelter: The Chains of War - nuclear weapons, militarisation and their impact on society (2014)

Carbon - The New Cash Crop

(4 pages)

The Land, Autumn 2010, Issue 9, pp.15-18

Are we continuing to fuel Biodiversity Loss?

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

(2 pages)

Agrofuel Moratorium Call

EU biofuel target causes serious damage in the Global South

Comments on the transport elements of the Renewable Energy Directive and on article 7 of the EU Fuel Quality Directive

(3 pages)

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.

New breeding techniques

Open letter to the Commission on new genetic engineering methods

(2 pages)

Agriculture and soils in carbon trading

(2 pages)

Engineered to fail?

Climate-related Geoengineering

(2 pages)

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

(1 page)

ECO 41(1)

Genetically engineered gene drives: IUCN report on Synthetic Biology lacks balance

A critique of the IUCN report ‘Genetic Frontiers for Conservation: An assessment of synthetic biology and biodiversity conservation’ – with regards to its assessment of gene drives

(30 pages)

Published by: Critical Scientists Switzerland (CSS), European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER), & Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler (VDW/FGS)

Real problems, false solutions

(7 pages)

Seedling, October 2009

Argentina: A Case Study on the Impact of Genetically Engineered Soya

How producing RR soya is destroying the food security and sovereignty of Argentina

(30 pages)

for The Gaia Foundation

AGROPOLY - A handful of corporations control world food production

(18 pages)

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Agriculture and Climate Change - Real Problems, False Solutions

(44 pages)

Report published for the Conference of the Parties, COP15, of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, December 2009.

Biofuels: how many are invasive alien species?

(1 page)

ECO 40(3)

An EU Perspective on Biosafety Considerations for Plants Developed by Genome Editing and Other New Genetic Modification Techniques (nGMs)

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 7:31. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00031

A dangerous precedent

The UK Nuffield Council on Bioethics proposes five ethical principles and a duty to develop biofuels instead of the Precautionary Principle

(2 pages)

English version of an article forthcoming in German in the June issue of umwelt aktuell.

Interview: Thai Rice Farmer on GM crops

Daoreung Pheudphon explains why GM crops are a threat to farmers and won’t feed the world

(2 pages)

Carried out in Bangkok at a public rice fair, 20 February 2005.

Genetic Engineering in Plants and the “New Breeding Techniques (NBTs)”

Inherent risks and the need to regulate

(10 pages)

GM chicken - a solution to bird flu?

Feed the world?

(4 pages)

The Ecologist, November 2008.