Encourage sustainable trade

Greenpeace volunteers dressed as Uncle Sam dump GE maize on other volunteers representing consumers in straitjackets, suffocating their demand for the right to say no GE food.

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Genetically engineered food by Bush & Co. E-card designed by Mark Fiore.

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Greenpeace banner on the Rainbow Warrior during the WTO's 4th Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar.

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Documents and position papers

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Trading Away Our Oceans

19 January 2007

Instead of pursuing further liberalization, states should ensure existing international law is implemented fully and establish new rules to ensure sustainable and equitable management of the high seas. Furthermore, developing countries must be provided with the capacity and know-how to establish and enforce effective fisheries management regimes in their own waters.

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Genetic Engineering and the WTO

28 September 2006

Analysis of the Report in the ‘EC-Biotech’ Case: A step backwards for international environmental law, but not the end of GE restrictions

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Deadly Subsidies

31 May 2006

How government subsidies are destroying the oceans and forests and why the CBD rather than the WTO should stop this peverse use of public money.

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Greenpeace position on Coexistence

01 March 2006

Coexistence is the term used for measures to separate genetically engineered (GE) and non-GE crops and foods. But mounting evidence shows that coexistence is impossible and that GE organisms, which are living organisms, once released into the environment, cannot be controlled and will lead to genetic contamination.

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The US Assault on Biosafety – The WTO dispute on GMOs

02 December 2005

On May 13, 2003 the US government filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the European Union’s de facto moratorium on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as well as a number of EU member states’ national bans on GMOs.

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