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Terminator Overwinning: 2.b is NOT to be!
nina - 24.03.2006 14:51
Zojuist heeft het moratorium op Terminator (zie bijdrage gisteren) COP8 overleefd!
Zoals je kan lezen op www.wheredidmygenesgo.blogspot.com, heeft een groep landen onder leiding van Maleisie bereikt dat de aanbeveling voor een 'case by case' benadering niet overgenomen wordt.
Dit is in elk geval een tijdelijke overwinning, en een heel belangrijke.
VICTORY against the Terminator! : 2(b) is NOT to be
Three minutes at the beginning of the working group this morning while delegates and observers were still straggling in defined a momentous victory for all of us - the ban on Terminator is reaffirmed without the dangerous "case-by-case" language that threatened to let loose this dangerous sterile seed producing technology.
A Friends of the Chair group met last night to struggle through the opposing positions, with Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US and Industry in the shadows (as non-paries) trying to weaken the intentioanal ban on GURTS - the technology that creates sterile seeds and that threatens everything from biodoversity to farmers livelihoods to food security.
With the hard work of many people - and with Malaysia apparently taking a lead role - the group not only came to a decision to get rid of the paragraph of case-by case basis, but also strengthened wording to reflect the mandate of decision V/5 - the original moratorium.
Although Industry and most like to few countries in support of GURTS will continue in other fora to push the dangerous technology through, this is a momentous occasion that we can all be prou
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