As originally posted by OMG! Décodons. Text translated from the original language (French.)
New episode of OMG! Let’s decode biotech: the tree that hides the biotechs of the independent media Inf’OGM, Citizen information watchdog on GMOs, biotechs and seeds.
Trees that grow faster, that better manage photosynthesis to capture more carbon, this is the promise of some start-ups such as Living Carbone. Researchers decipher for us the complexity of such a project and its environmental risks, but also the excesses of carbon finance. Behind these trees of the future, the paper industry is never far away. As well as the intense lobbying within the FSC – Forest Stewardship Council – to have genetically modified trees accepted in this international standard.
Link to listen (French): https://lnkd.in/eU_VS2EP
💬 Interviews:
– Philippe Delacote, researcher at INRAE / AgroParisTech in environmental economics (personal website)
– Cyril Dutech, researcher at INRAE in evolutionary biology and forest pathology
– Annick Bossu, retired professor of SVT who has been following the issue of GMOs for 30 years (administrator of Inf’OGM)
– Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Justice Ecology Projects, coordinator of the Stop GE Trees campaign