Business as usual is not an option in UN climate talks

As many civil society groups walked back into the UN climate talks last week in Bonn after walking out last November in Warsaw, CEO warned that unless the cosy relationship between political leaders and the dirty energy industry is terminated, we will be walking into a climate disaster.

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The European Stability Mechanism (ESM): no democracy at the bailout fund

 

The ESM, the euro area’s permanent bailout fund set up in 2012, operates behind closed doors, away from public scrutiny. It is doing its best to stave off any national influence over the conditions attached to its loans and it is working closely with private consultancies, which appear to have conflicts of interest.

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Biotech lobby's fingerprints over new EU proposal to allow national GMO bans

A proposal to allow member states to ban specific genetically modified crops from their territories looks set to have a giant biotech-industry-friendly loophole. How did we get from a national ban proposal to an industry-friendly opt-out?

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Why EFSA is not (yet?) independent

CEO's Martin Pigeon gave a presentation at a workshop organised by the European Food Safety Authority explaining the situation and why conflicts of interest scandals keep accumulating there.

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Synthetic biology is not “natural”

Open letter to Ecover and Method regarding the decision to use ingredients derived from synthetically modified organisms

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