Biodiversity: opportunities and dilemas [access to genetic resources]
2002
S.M. Silva
Senator Marina Silva of the National Congress of Brazil critically describes efforts to regulate access to genetic resources in Brazil. It describes how the interactions between various international agreements, vested interests, indigenous groups and domestic policies and politics have conspired to prevent the worlds most biodiverse nation from passing effective legislation to regulate access to its genetic resources and to associated knowledge since the Rio Earth Summit.Senator Silva makes a number of proposals designed to move the process forward. These include:Supporting efforts to hold a Pan-Amazonian Conference to discuss common rules for access to biodiversity in all the nations that share the Amazon, and to formulate a Pan-Amazonian Treaty on biological and cultural diversity. This proposal relates particularly to legal initiatives now under discussion in Peru and Chile.Holding a further public hearing in the Senate's Social Affairs Commission involving scientists and businesspeople.Stimulating efforts to find fairer and more harmonic development solutions for access to biodiversity and to community knowledge which will in turn encourage communities to implement their own discussions on these issues.Ensuring that the outcomes of these discussions feed into the wider policy process
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