typhoon approaching Nagoya
The city of Nagoya is preparing for a typhoon -- meanwhile the last day at the meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention of Biological Diversity, held in Nagoya, is unusually quiet. Everybody is waiting what comes out of this final push behind closed doors.
The Parties (memebres of the Convention -- almost all states excluding the US) disgree over benefit sharing over genetic resources. And so the much needed international Protocol which would greatly contribute to the status of Indigenous knowledge and would help meny developing countries to retain the value (and control of) their unique genetic resources and knowledge, is still not agreed. All delegates are going on an emotional rollercoaster.
If they do not accept ABS Protocol it will be yet another international failure, after the Copenhagen negotiations on climate change, to find a compromise on a very important environmental global challenge - loss of biodiversity. The era of (limited) world cooperation over environmental issues of the 1990s-2000s may be coming to an end... Bad news indeed.
The Parties (memebres of the Convention -- almost all states excluding the US) disgree over benefit sharing over genetic resources. And so the much needed international Protocol which would greatly contribute to the status of Indigenous knowledge and would help meny developing countries to retain the value (and control of) their unique genetic resources and knowledge, is still not agreed. All delegates are going on an emotional rollercoaster.
If they do not accept ABS Protocol it will be yet another international failure, after the Copenhagen negotiations on climate change, to find a compromise on a very important environmental global challenge - loss of biodiversity. The era of (limited) world cooperation over environmental issues of the 1990s-2000s may be coming to an end... Bad news indeed.