List of EcoNexus Publications

Carbon markets – A distraction from the real priority: immediate emission reductions

(4 pages)

Release of GM mosquito Aedes aegypti OX513A (NRE(S)609-2/1/3)

Scientific opinion to the Department of Biosafety, Ministery of Natural Resources and Environment of Malaysia

Synthetic Biology

Letter to New Scientist

(1 page)

New Scientiest, Issue 2772, p.24-25, 7 August 2010

Global agrofuel crops as contested sustainability, Part I: Sustaining what development?

(17 pages)

Carbon - The New Cash Crop

(4 pages)

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

Soy production and certification: the case of Argentinean soy-based biodiesel

(23 pages)

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 15(4): 371-394, DOI: 10.1007/s11027-010-9225-2

Global Agrofuel Crops as Dispossession

In: Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World / Kolya Abramsky ed.

Agriculture and soils in carbon trading

(2 pages)

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.

Real problems, false solutions

(7 pages)

Seedling, October 2009

No Idle Threat to the Marginalised

The Focus on “Marginal and Idle” Land for Biofuels (Agrofuels)

(4 pages)

published as 'Biofuel 2.0', The Ecologist, February 2009

Feed the world?

(4 pages)

The Ecologist, November 2008.

Why 'marginal' land does not solve the biofuel problems

(1 page)

Agrofuels and the Myth of the Marginal Lands

(8 pages)

Land-use, Bioenergy and Agro-biotechnology

(35 pages)

Study for the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)

Can sustainability criteria for certification of agrofuels be effective?

(4 pages)

in: Policy Department Economic and Scientific Policy Sustainable Biofuel Production in Tropical and Subtropical Countries Workshop proceedings 12 June 2008, p. 19-22

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

GE Rice

The Genetic Engineering of the World’s Leading Staple Crop

(24 pages)

for Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific

Agrofuel Moratorium Call

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).

Transformation-induced Mutations in Transgenic Plants

Analysis and Biosafety Implications

(29 pages)

In: Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews, Vol 23, December 2006, pp. 209-237

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)