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30/06/20

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Together with over 80 organisations, we wrote to the EU Commission to ask them to support a global moratorium on the release of Gene Drive Organisms.

Gene Drive technology aims to eradicate entire populations of species via genetic engineering, and its effects are currently not reversible. The environmental threat of its release poses serious and novel threats to nature.

The letter calls on EU Environment and Health Commissioners Sinkevi?ius and Kyriakides to follow the European Parliament’s call for a global moratorium ahead of the upcoming COP 15 UN biodiversity talks.

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