Beyond Access: Exploring Implementation of the Fair and Equitable Sharing Commitment in the CBD

Beyond Access: Exploring Implementation of the Fair and Equitable Sharing Commitment in the CBD
ISBN-10
2831709806
ISBN-13
9782831709802
Series
Beyond Access
Category
Convention on Biological Diversity
Pages
172
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
IUCN
Authors
Tomme R. Young, Morten Walløe Tvedt

Description

Fewer than 11% of CBD Parties have adopted substantive ABS law, and nearly all of these are developing countries, focusing almost entirely on the 'access' side of the equation. Most of the CBD's specific ABS obligations, however, relate to the other side of the equation-benefit sharing. This book considers the full range of ABS obligations, and how existing tools in user countries' national law can be used to achieve the CBD's third objective. It examines the laws of those user countries which have either declared that their ABS obligations are satisfied by existing national law, or have begun legislative development; the requirements, weaknesses and gaps in achieving benefit-sharing objectives; and the ways in which new or existing legal tools can be applied to these requirements.