News from the SBSTTA

News from the SBSTTA 12 - July 2007

The Twelfth Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice will take place from 2 - 6 July 2007 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

PRESS RELEASES and STATEMENTS

Governments Express Strong Concerns About Biofuels - For Immediate Release - 6 July 2007 - also available in Spanish and Portuguese
Large Alliance of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples Calls for Ban on Genetically Modified Trees for Biofuels - Press Release by Global Justice Ecology Project , Global Forest Coalition and the World Rainforest Movement - July 4th 2007

Civil society statement at SBSTTA 12, July 2nd, 2007

Statement of indigenous Peoples and Local Communities - Statement of IPs and Local Communities under Agenda Item 5.3, made by Hiraina Hona at plenary of the SBSTTA - July 2th, 2007

Open letter to SBSTTA on the issue of GM trees - Full text with signatories as of 30 June 2007 - Also available in Spanish and French
Groups from around the world call for a moratorium on EU incentives for biofuels from large-scale monocultures - Joint Press Release by EcoNexus, Biofuelwatch, Corporate Europe Observatory - 27th June 2007 - see here Indonesian version. - German version - Spanish version - Italian version

SIGN - UP THE MORATORIUM
Please send a message to h.paul@econexus.info “Signing Agrofuels Moratorium Call ” in the subject line. Please state whether you are signing as an individual or on behalf of an organisation.
Individuals: give name and country. Organisations: give organisation's name and country. Or visit http://www.econexus.info/

REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS

ECO Vol 16, July 2 - 6 July, 2007. The Voice of the NGO Community in the International Environmental Conventions
- Issue 1
  IPOs say no to agrofuel exports
  Geoengineering: technofix again!
  20 years of agrofuels in Brazil
  Agrofuels by numbers

Issue 2
Civil society on agrofuels
Ecosystem approach
India, Jatropha and SBSTTA notes
Issue 3
Cleaning up messes
Reclaim the forests + eucalyptus plantations
To tree or not to tree
Agrofuels in Africa
Issue 4
Drylands and agrofuels
GM Trees + the Biosafety / Agrofuel nexus
A suicide seed sequel
Dr. N.D. Bracket returns! ECO Interview
Issue 5
2010 + crocodile tears
Certification-agrofuels
Foreshadowing Agricultural Biodiv.
SBSTTA notes

New report calls for 'reality check' on biofuels - Oscar Reyes, Transnational Institute

Report of the Debate “Biofuels – implications for the South” - Dutch Parliament, The Hague, June 29, 2007

RELATED LINKS

The CBD Alliance
http://www.cbdalliance.org/

EcoNexus web site
http://www.econexus.info/

Global Forest Coalition
http://www.globalforestcoalition.org (in English and Spanish)

Corporate Europe Observatory
http://www.corporateeurope.org/

The official Biodiversity Convention web site
http://www.biodiv.org/

The SBSTTA 12 web site
http://www.cbd.int/meetings/sbstta-12/default.shtml