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Towards a mutually supportive relationship between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the World Trade Organisation: An action guide
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 WTO obligations relating to biodiversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.2 Specific trade issues affecting forest biodiversity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.3 … between the CBD and the WTO 8 4 Forests 4.1 Context Forest biodiversity – including wood and non-wood products – …
Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… LifeWeb Initiative is a partnership platform for financing biodiversity that promotes protected areas conservation and … services; • Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+ schemes); • environmental … including rewards for enhancing carbon storage through forest restoration, rehabilitation and afforestation/ …
Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project
… 29 4.1 The southern Africa context 30 4.1.1 Status of biodiversity in southern Africa 30 4.1.1.1 Socio-economic … the terms and con- ditions as if for the collection of forest products.106 There is no appreciation of the potential … resource issues (generally treating the matter as a forest extraction contract), key issues relating to the …
A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows
… Financial and Other Incentives of the TMOIFGR: The Biodiversity Cartel 49 Joseph Henry Vogel 3.1 Economic logic … say, in many tropical regions it is easier to cut a forest than to study it.”31 That salvo is immediately … systems are those relating to the certification of forest and marine products – both of which ultimately result …
Explanatory guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… and action groups, focusing in particular on species and biodiversity conservation and the management of habitats and … tertiary gene pools somewhat fuzzy (see Maynard, C. 1996. Forest Genetics Glossary). The paragraph acknowledges that … of genetically important wild crop relatives situated in forest habitats (for exam- ple, the Mazatlan Biosphere …
Intellectual property rights in plant varieties: International legal regimes and policy options for national governments
… (2) studying technical issues raised by the disclosure of biodiversity-related information in patent applications; (3) … that technology has acquired to protect it. Over time, the biodiversity regime’s approach to intellectual property … protection of fifteen years, with the exception of vines, forest trees, fruit trees and ornamental trees, which are …