Can Montreal help communities: DTE’s coverage on access and benefit-sharing in the run-up to COP15

Benefits arising from the use of biodiversity have not been shared equitably with communities who have protected it for centuries

Biosafety issues get a push

Experts to study socio-economic aspects of GMO release

A bill for biodiversity

CoP-11 has an urgent agenda: to look for money to fund new targets

Exercise in non-performance

A biopiracy coup

Can the recent convention on biodiversity be called that?

Should we play weather god?

Debate continues despite consensus to ban geoengineering

Why the world is worried about this new biotechnology

In the Convention on Biological Diversity, a moratorium on biotechnology, like genetically engineered mosquitoes, takes centre stage

Punishing the brats

New targets to protect biodiversity must include farmers and agriculture

Africa’s protected areas cover an area of 20.4 million km² or 15.1% of the landmass. But experts say this isn’t enough. 

The biotech brigands

Developed nations are interpreting key clauses of the biodiversity treaty with the aim of protecting their own biotechnology industries from …

At their mercy

Biotech companies and the World Trade Organisation took centrestage at the fourth conference on biological diversity, leaving traditional …

Species in peril

India is among the top 10 countries threatened with high species loss

Elusive pact

Negotiations on biological resources inch forward

The conservation and sustainable management of biological resources was high on the international agenda in February 2004. Representatives of …

CoP 11: No consensus on resource mobilisation

Jayanthi Natarajan hopeful of Parties agreeing on a final document 

Biodiversity or Biotrade?

Competing goals of free trade and environmental protection puts the much-awaited Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety indefinitely on hold

7th GEF Assembly: Decision on direct funding to civil societies likely during the meeting

More funds would be needed to make this possible without alienating governments

Biodiversity meet: Parties disagree on resource mobilisation

Contact group to now fix individual financial targets for countries

No shortcuts to biosafety, says India

Science-based mechanism needed to assess impact of biotechnology, says Jayanthi at inaugural session of Convention on Biological Diversity

Forests brushed aside

CoP-11 fails to finalise guidelines to safeguard forest biodiversity

Let the genes cross borders

National sovereignty over genetic resources could undermine food security

G77, China appeal to developed countries to meet commitments on resource mobilisation

Financial targets agreed to by developed countries in Nagoya were to be determined at CoP 11 in Hyderabad

‘Future 50’ food items identified in new report

It also emphasises that food diversity across the world is being lost

Still vexed

Regulating access to biodiversity and ensuring justice for its traditional knowledge holders

Benefit barred, access denied

CBD to hold COP-8 in WTO shadow