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The need for horizon scanning and technology assessment to address the evolving nature of genetic engineering
20. July 2022
The world will decide on a Global Biodiversity Framework in December 2022. TWN makes clear why "horizon scanning and technology assessment" should be included.
The UN CBD working group is meeting in Kenya these days
22. June 2022
The Fourth Working Group of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity is meeting at the moment and discusses very important issues related to gene drives.
300,000 EU citizens call on German environmental minister Steffi Lemke: Stop Gene Drives!
31. May 2022
On 31st of May, the Stop Gene Drive Campaign handed over 300,000 signatures calling for a global gene drive moratorium to th German environmental minister Steffi Lemke.
World Malaria Day 2022
25. April 2022
Are gene drive mosquitoes the best shot we have in the fight against malaria? What risks are we accepting if we use this technology?
International negotiations on Gene Drives resume in person
15. April 2022
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UN CBD) and its sub-protocols are the world's most important forums for establishing internationally binding regulations for Gene Drive technology. For the first time since the beginning of the COVID pandemic - after more than two years of repeated postponements and online meetings - government officials, civil society, scientists and business lobbyists met in person to resume international negotiations in Geneva (Switzerland) between 14-29 March 2022.
World Wildlife Day
3. March 2022
Conserving wildlife and protecting biodiversity should be one of our biggest efforts. Gene Drive Organisms could be detrimental to both.
European Parliament: no promotion of genetic technologies in development policy!
6. October 2021
On Oct. 6, 2021, the European Parliament called on the EU Commission and EU member states, through its report on "The role of development policy in combating biodiversity loss not to promote genetic technologies with development aid funds and, in particular, not to allow the release of Gene Drive organisms.
European Parliament calls for ban on gene drive technology
9. June 2021
In their report on the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, which was adopted in the plenary of the European Parliament on 08.06.2021, the parliamentarians demand that "in line with the precautionary principle, no releases of genetically modified gene drive organisms should be allowed, not even for nature conservation purposes."