Politicizing the Precautionary Principle: Why Disregarding Facts Should Not Pass for Farsightedness

Aerni, Philipp

doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.01053

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“…Conventional plant breeding may still be able to address some of these challenges effectively, but it is more time-consuming. NBTs have the potential to address these drawbacks (Aerni, 2019).…”

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Potential, Challenges, and Threats for the Application of New Breeding Techniques by the Private Plant Breeding Sector in the EU

Jorasch

2020

Front. Plant Sci.

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Reconciling sustainability with agricultural productivity in the face of climate change relies strongly on the development of resilient, high-yielding crops of superior nutritional value that can be grown more resource efficiently. Therefore, innovation in plant breeding has gained unprecedented importance. Plant breeding depends upon genetic variability within crops and their relatives as a basis for developing new plant varieties with improved characteristics. Plant breeders are continuously integrating the latest methods in plant biology and genetics into their breeding toolbox to more efficiently use existing diversity but also to induce new genetic variation. Over the past years, ever more precise and efficient plant breeding methods have been developed. This plant breeding innovation leap is based on an in-depth understanding of plant genomes and refinement of breeding methods, enabling more efficient, more precise and faster progress in achieving the desired breeding goals. Consequently, these plant breeding innovations are rapidly being developed and utilized internationally and across the seed sector, public and private research, plant species and markets. The results of a survey among 62 private plant breeding companies conducted by Euroseeds and presented in this publication confirm the enormous interest of companies in using new breeding techniques (NBTs) for a wide range of crop species and traits and the negative impact of the current regulatory situation in the EU on companies' decisions for investments in NBT-related R&D activities for the EU market and beyond.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Potential, Challenges, and Threats for the Application of New Breeding Techniques by the Private Plant Breeding Sector in the EU

Jorasch

2020

Front. Plant Sci.

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“…The judgements do not explain in what way and with what probability an individual risk to human, animal, plant and environmental health may be or has not materialised. Also, except for some court proceedings, criminal sanctions for non-compliance with EU law in the field of GMOs or with the enforcement of EU law into national law are not imposed in judgements (Meško Kuralt, 2021b: 230-231;Aerni, 2019;Lamping, 2012: 123-129 27 ;Heubuch, 2016: 20-22 28 ).…”

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The Importance of Autonomy of European Union Member States with regard to the Use of Genetically Modified Organisms on the Right to Healthcare – An Analysis of Judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Kuralt

2022

lexonomica

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The European Union Member States (hereinafter: EU MS) have the possibility of restricting or banning the cultivation of GMOs under the Directive 2015/412 but under certain conditions. EU MS must also pay attention to the provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the Euro-pean Union or Treaty Establishing the European Community (hereinafter: TFEU), the provi-sions relating to the free movement of goods, which is one of the key objectives of the func-tioning of the European Union. This contribution is based on the data obtained from an analy-sis of Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter: CJEU) cases concerning the use of genetically modified organisms (hereinafter: GMO(s)). The analysis highlights the link between environmental risk assessment and the right to healthcare. The purpose of this paper is to make the individual aware of the possibilities they have regarding the use of GMOs.

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“…This may not just be related to the complexity of the challenges but also a different mindset that shaped the discourse in the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) of the conventions. They tended to implicitly frame the challenges as the negative externalities of technological and economic change that have to be regulated accordingly (Prins and Rayner 2007;Prathapan et al 2018;Aerni 2019a).…”

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Transitioning to Decent Work and Economic Growth

Aerni¹,

Stavridou²,

Schluep³

2021

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According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the private sector plays a key role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). After all, sustainable and inclusive economic growth is essential to enable more people to participate in global prosperity. Encouraging entrepreneurship and job creation are key to SDG 8, as are effective measures to eradicate forced labor, slavery, and human trafficking. Since more than 90 percent of jobs are created by the private sector, more attention must be paid to entrepreneurs that help create dynamic and responsible enterprises that often generate positive externalities for society and the environment through investments in scalable innovations and a commitment to local embeddedness. As such, they help lift people out of poverty through new and relatively well-paid jobs and enable local economies to become more sustainable through global value chain integration.

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Politicizing the Precautionary Principle: Why Disregarding Facts Should Not Pass for Farsightedness

Cited by 12 publications

References 15 publications

Potential, Challenges, and Threats for the Application of New Breeding Techniques by the Private Plant Breeding Sector in the EU

Potential, Challenges, and Threats for the Application of New Breeding Techniques by the Private Plant Breeding Sector in the EU

The Importance of Autonomy of European Union Member States with regard to the Use of Genetically Modified Organisms on the Right to Healthcare – An Analysis of Judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Transitioning to Decent Work and Economic Growth

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