Access and benefit-sharing in the Convention on Biological Diversity
The aim of the so-called 2010 Biodiversity Target is to achieve, by 2010, a significant reduction of biodiversity loss at the global, regional, and national level. To reach this goal, efforts are to be undertaken to implement, more effectively and coherently, the three main objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the conservation and the sustainable use of biodiversity and fair and equitable access and benefit-sharing.
Project description
The 2010 Target was also incorporated into the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A further aim is to negotiate, by 2010, an international regime on fair and equitable benefit-sharing that would assign greater responsibility to the industrialised countries, possibly by requiring them to do more to regulate and control the use of genetic resources, e.g. in the pharmaceutical industry.
Two questions arise against this background:
1. What instruments are likely to prove suitable and effective when it comes to financing and implementing biodiversity protection, and in particular, is the concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing one of them?
2. What elements should be part of an international regime that would be negotiated by 2010 with a view to ensuring fair and equitable access and benefit-sharing for developing countries?
Publications
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Die Nutzer genetischer Resourcen in Europa und ihr Verhältnis zur CBD
Täuber, Sabine / Carmen Richerzhagen / Karin Holm-Müller (2008)
in: Natur und Landschaft 2/2008, 47-51 -
Sustainable utilization of crop genetic diversity through property rights mechanisms: the case of coffee genetic resources in Ethiopia
Richerzhagen, Carmen / Detlev Virchow (2007)
in: International Journal of Biotechnology 9 (1), 60–86 -
Survey: users of genetic resources in Germany; results according to an internationally recognized certificate of origin / source / legal provenance
Richerzhagen, Carmen (2007)
in: Ute Feit / Franziska Wolff (eds.), European regional meeting on an internationally recognized certificate of origin / source / legal provenance, report of an international workshop hosted by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Isle of Vilm, Germany, 24-29 October 2006, 95-97 -
Certificates of origin: economic impacts and implications
Richerzhagen, Carmen (2007)
in: Ute Feit / Franziska Wolff (eds.), European regional meeting on an internationally recognized certificate of origin / source / legal provenance, report of an international workshop hosted by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Isle of Vilm, Germany, 24-29 October 2006, 46-48 -
Users of genetic resources in Germany: awareness, participation and positions regarding the Convention on Biological Diversity
Holm-Müller, Karin / Carmen Richerzhagen / Sabine Täuber (2005)
BfN Skripten 126, Bonn -
Towards an international regime on access and benefit-sharing for genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge
Tobin, Brendan /Wendy Elliott / Sam Johnston / Carmen Richerzhagen (2005)
in: Work in Progress 17 (2), Tokyo: United Nations Univ., 6–8 -
The effectiveness of access and benefit sharing in Costa Rica: implications for national and international regimes
Richerzhagen, Carmen / Karin Holm-Müller (2005)
in: Ecological Economics 53, 445–460 -
Certificates of origin - economic impacts and implications
Richerzhagen, Carmen (2005)
Working Paper, United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies, Japan -
Tracking genetic resources and international access and benefit-sharing governance: the role of certificates of origin
Cunningham, David / Carmen Richerzhagen / Brendan Tobin / Kazuo Watanabe (2005)
in: Work in Progress 17 (2), Tokyo: United Nations Univ., 9–11 -
Ökonomische Analyse nationaler Zugangs- und Vorteilsausgleichsregelungen genetischer Ressourcen am Beispiel der Philippinen
Richerzhagen, Carmen (2003)
in: Horst Korn / Ute Feit (Bearb.): Treffpunkt Biologische Vielfalt III, Bonn: Landwirtschaftsverl.