Twenty-one organisations have written to the members of the STOA-panel of the European Parliament, to raise concerns about an upcoming seminar they are holding on the EU GMO policy. This seminar is organised in cooperation with the Public Research Regulation Initiative (PRRI), an industry-biased pro-GMO lobbygroup, despite its name and pretentions. The organisations ask the STOA-panel members to postpone the seminar "in order tomake sure that independent scientific experts as well as representatives from civil society are invited to debate the role of genetic engineering".

While some corporate climate lobby groups have in public lamented the failure of the UN climate talks in Copenhagen to reach a strong agreement, behind closed doors, many of them are relieved. Indeed, if there was any attempt to agree meaningful action on climate change in Copenhagen, a number of big business players had been working hard to prevent it. This article looks at the corporate lobbyists who were nominated for the Angry Mermaid Award ahead of Copenhagen – and asks what they achieved.

CEO has sent a joint open letter to the European Commission after the former head of the GMO panel at the European Food Standards Agency moved to work as a lobbyist at the biotech company, Syngenta. The European Food Standards Agency failed to intervene to impose a "cooling off" period before the move - which creates a clear conflict of interest.

Is Connie Hedegaard really the right choice for Climate Commissioner?
Her record of siding with big business lobbies should be reason for concern