[Taxacom] Shared Ownership of Biological Resources

[Fabian Haas]

well, the CBD says several times that the national states have sovereign 
rights over their biodiversity. This was introduced to make them protect 
whats in their borders. No way this will change and no way biodiversity 
will be treated as a common heritage anymore. Other discussions in IPR 
will go similar ways. Maybe only Agriculture with their exchange system 
for gen plasms is different.
Best

Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan wrote:
>  Pl. see out letter "Shared Ownership of Biological Resources"in Science
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/324/5930/1014-c.pdf
>
> "....Current negotiations within the framework of the CBD on access and
> benefit sharing do not address the issues created by nationalization of
> genetic resources. Hence, a dialogue should be initiated in the next
> Conference of the  Parties (COP) of the CBD to correct the historic
> aberration of nationalization and to treat biological diversity as a common
> heritage of mankind. "
>
> PRIYADARSANAN DHARMA RAJAN  AND PRATHAPAN DIVAKARAN
>
>   

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