Socio-economic considerations

All ECOs published during COP14, Cartagena MOP9 and Nagoya MOP3

Issue 1:

• Synthetic Biology
• Risk assessment/ Risk management
• Local Biodiversity Outlooks

Issue 2:

• CBD Alliance Opening statement
• Mainstreaming Action at COP14
• Geoengineering: Ignoring CBD decisions at the United Nations Environment Assembly?
• The peasant's movement La Via Campesina is urging for a moratorium on gene drives
• Herbivory: critical to coral reef health
• Pressure Mounts for a Solution on Benefit Sharing
  for Digital Sequence Information

Issue 3 - Special IIFB issue:

• Integration of Article 8(j) and provisions related to indigenous peoples and local communities in the work of the Convention and its Protocols
• Biodiversity & climate change: Indigenous Peoples Traditional Knowledge is Key
• The importance of dialogue
• Listening to the voice of our Mother Earth
• Statement on Socio-economic considerations
• Review of progress in the implementation of the Convention and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Issue 4:

• Do Not Betray Africa on SynBio and Gene Drives - Civil Society Organisations urge African Governments
• UN aviation proposals threatens biodiversity goals
• Mainstreaming
• Addressing conflicts of interest in CBD processes
• extinction rebellion

Issue 5:

• Conflict of interest
• Gene drives
• UN declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas
• Environmental defenders

Issue 6:

• Who benefits from gene drives and modern biotechnology?
• Post-2020 plenary: A wasted afternoon
• Farmers’ seeds underpin biodiverse food systems
• Salmon farms are threatening Chilean Patagonia
• Deforestation, monocultures and Strategic Plans

Issue 7

• Illegal use of pro-GM propaganda: Tanzania orders the destruction of GM field trials
• Will yet another GM-trial ban in Africa help the moratorium on synthetic biology?
• Civil society on post 2020 global biodiversity framework
• Mainstreaming human rights in the CBD: The Escazú Agreement, a contribution from Latin America and the Caribbean

Issue 8

• Deep-Sea Mining and Biodiversity Loss
• Target 21: Venues must contribute to biodiversity loss
• "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it"
• More vigorous engagement with parliamentarians
• urged in pursuing CBD targets

Issue 9

• Of mosquitoes and men
• Geoengineering: C2G2 and IPLCs
• "We are running behind..."

Issue 10

• The Paris Agreement as inspiration?
• A Stumbling Block for Implementation

Issue 1:

• Synthetic Biology
• Monetisation of Nature
• Mainstreaming of Biodiversity
• Women’s Award

Issue 2:

• Gene drives
• Women’s Award
• Deep Sea Mining
• What are ICCAs?

Issue 3:

• Geoengineering
• ABS under litigation in India
• FAO forest definition & plantations

Issue 4

• Collective action for recognition of ICCAs in Indonesia
• What’s at Steak? Impacts of the industrial livestock and feedstock sector on forests, biodiversity, farmers and communities
• When Dollar Signs Grow on Bushes
• On customary sustainable use indicators, Aichi Target 18

Issue 5

• Mayan peoples in COP 13
• Locals win against GM mosquito release
• Countries need to increase actions and funding or the Aichi Targets won’t be achieved
• Consumer Rejection Driving Out GMOs in USA and  Elsewhere
• Aichi Targets 11 and 12: Environmental movement victory brings EU back on track

Issue 6

• Gene drives
• AHTEGs on Risk Assessment and on Socio-Economic Considerations

Issue 7

• Harrasment
• Tourism
• Nuclear radiation
• Indigenous women & traditional knowledge

Issue 8

• Free prior informed consent
• Business & Biodiversity
• Múuch'tambal Summit on Indigenous Experience

Issue 9

• Cancun & tourism
• Local Biodiversity Outlooks

Issue 10

• Local managed marine areas
• Statement of students and professors of the Intercultural University of the State of Mexico

Issue 11:

• Gene drives
• Aichi Targets
• Environmental policies
• Licencing
• Protecting 17%

Special issue Agricultural diversity