The UN has declared this year as the International Year of Biodiversity. Throughout the year a large number of initiatives are planned worldwide with the aim of raising the importance of the issue for communities around the globe. The year also marks a milestone in the assessment of the world's biodiversity. The initiatives have been supported by the organisation Countdown 200, set up through t...

This article analyses the possible system of dispute settlement within future implementation agreement United Nations Convention on Law Sea conservation and sustainable use marine biological diversity areas beyond national jurisdiction. In order to explain foreseen in UNCLOS Part XV, that likely will be adopted by BBNJ Agreement, its main aspects are addressed addition to, specially, reception ...

1. 2010 International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) provides an effective point for reinforcing the implementation of the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity. These three objectives also highlight the linkages between biodiversity as the core of sustainable development promoting human well being. This is a golden moment to also promote the recognition of the inextricable lin...

Abstract The principle of intergenerational equity plays a fundamental role in international conservation law. In this article, we analyse how far the is applied with regard to indigenous youth. By scrutinizing Whaling Convention, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, International Trade Endangered Species Wild Fauna and Flora, Conservation Migratory Biological Diversity, extent which key regimes law ...

1. The Executive Secretary is circulating herewith, for the information of participants in the seventh meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA), a background paper prepared by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) on on-farm management of crop genetic diversity. This information note supplements the progress report by the Ex...

International agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have committed to conserve, and sustainably equitably use, biodiversity. The CBD is a vital instrument for global conservation because it guides 195 countries European Union in setting priorities allocating resources, requires regular reporting progress. However, similar policy often neglected genetic diversity. This ...

This paper examines the way in which biodiversity has been incorporated into the agenda of many international organisations, including non-governmental organisations, and international programmes. Biodiversity has been defined by the Convention on Biological Diversity but is also widely discussed in relation to genetic resources, biodiversity hotspots and ecosystem services. The author identifi...

AFTER YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS, THE WORLD HEALTH Organization (WHO) reached agreement on a pandemic influenza preparedness (PIP) framework for the sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits in April 2011. The framework addresses a troubling controversy—should lowand middleincome countries share influenza virus specimens with WHO without assurances that benefits derived ...

Biotechnology has the potential to provide the answers to some of the developing world’s most intractable problems. There is scope for developing countries to interpret the provisions of the WTO TRIPS Agreement on biotechnology at different levels, as evidenced by differing interpretations in the developed world. Equally, however, demands of developing countries on biodiversity-related issues c...