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Dr. Philipp Aerni
Director of Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CCRS) at the University of Zurich, Zähringerstrasse 24 CH-8001 Zürich, Switzerland

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Published: 01 May 2013 in New Biotechnology
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Despite its potential to address climate change problems, the role of biotechnology is hardly ever touched upon in the global sustainability debate. We wanted to know why. For that purpose, we conducted a global online stakeholder survey on biotechnology and climate change. The relevant stakeholders and their representatives were selected by means of key informants that were familiar with either of the two debates. A self-assessment showed that a majority of respondents felt more familiar with the climate change than the biotechnology debate. Even though the survey results reveal that most respondents consider the potential of modern biotechnology to address climate change to be substantial, the policy network analysis revealed that one stakeholder who is not just considered to be relevant in both debates but also crucial in the formation of global public opinion, strongly rejects the view that biotechnology is a climate-friendly and therefore clean technology. This influential opposition seems to ensure that the biotechnology and the climate change debates do not mix.

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Philipp Aerni. Why do the biotechnology and the climate change debates hardly mix? Evidence from a global stakeholder survey. New Biotechnology 2013, 30, 344 -348.

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Philipp Aerni. Why do the biotechnology and the climate change debates hardly mix? Evidence from a global stakeholder survey. New Biotechnology. 2013; 30 (4):344-348.

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Philipp Aerni. 2013. "Why do the biotechnology and the climate change debates hardly mix? Evidence from a global stakeholder survey." New Biotechnology 30, no. 4: 344-348.

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Published: 15 April 2009 in Ecological Economics
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Public debates on sustainable agriculture tend to be shaped by dominant political stakeholders with a particular political agenda. They simultaneously contribute and respond to the formation of public opinion. In this paper, we investigate to what extent stakeholder attitudes and interests help explain national conceptions of sustainable agriculture and how these conceptions diverge between countries with different agricultural policies. For that purpose, we conducted two stakeholder perception surveys in Switzerland and New Zealand. The data analysis revealed that there are significant differences in perception between the two countries. While Swiss respondents felt that Swiss agriculture is already quite sustainable and that international trade and new technologies are likely to render it less sustainable, New Zealand respondents generally thought that economic and technological change is necessary to make agriculture more sustainable. The conservative Swiss attitude is in accordance with the country's defensive agricultural policy while the more progressive New Zealand attitude is clearly linked to its need to reconcile agricultural sustainability with national competitiveness.

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Philipp Aerni. What is sustainable agriculture? Empirical evidence of diverging views in Switzerland and New Zealand. Ecological Economics 2009, 68, 1872 -1882.

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Philipp Aerni. What is sustainable agriculture? Empirical evidence of diverging views in Switzerland and New Zealand. Ecological Economics. 2009; 68 (6):1872-1882.

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Philipp Aerni. 2009. "What is sustainable agriculture? Empirical evidence of diverging views in Switzerland and New Zealand." Ecological Economics 68, no. 6: 1872-1882.