Multilateral environmental agreements
- What lessons can be learnt from Brazils experience of implementing benefit sharing under the provisions of the CBD?
- S. Peña-Neira; C. Dieperink; H. Addink / Electronic Journal of Comparative Law, 2002
- The Convention on Biological Diversity introduced a number of rules covering benefit sharing with responsibility for the interpretation and application of these rules transferred to the national level. Therefore, Article 15 of the Con...
- Is the Global Environment Facility fundamentally flawed?
- K. Horta; R. Round / Environmental Defense Fund, 2002
- This paper from environmental defence and halifax initiative takes a critical look at the the Global Environment Facility (GEF) arguing that from its creation at the Rio Earth Summit conflicting pressures and flaws have consistently l...
- Overview of the CITES agreement and its history
- World Conservation Union, 2002
- This special issue of World Conservation magazine discusses the background to the CITES agreement and the IUCN position on it. The second paper in the issue discusses the need for the agreement and ways of making it more effect...
- TRIPS and CBD related mandates in the Ministerial texts approved at Doha.
- D.V. Eugui / Center for International Environmental Law, 2002
- This document analyses the content of TRIPS and CBD related mandates contained in the Ministerial texts approved at Doha. It aims at providing developing countries with suggestions for common action in the relevant WTO bodies. While m...
- Reports, case studies and resources to assist with agricultural management for biodiversity.
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002
- This report is one of eight thematic reviews prepared for the Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP), a programme created to help countries strengthen national capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies...
- The Biodiversity Planning Matrix as a tool for convention implementation
- J. Prescott; B Gauthier; J. N. Mbongu Sodi / United Nations Development Programme, 2000
- Parties to the convention on biological diversity are committed to the preparation of a biodiversity strategy and action plan. However, studies have show that methodological resources to facilitate work with the new, complex and multi...
- What prospects for the precautionary principle? The case of GMOs
- V. Lehmann / World Economy, Ecology and Development, 2002
- This study focuses on the regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and traces back the history, components and future consequences of the precautionary principle (PP). It scrutinizes the criticism on the PP based on the pre...
- What prospects and pitfalls does biotechnology hold in the pursuit of food security for Asia?
- Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
- This working paper from the Asian Development Bank examines the risks and benefits of biotechnology in relation to human health, the environment, and Agriculture. IN this context it aims to identify measures to minimise adverse impact...
- How should developing countries go about implementing the Biosafety Protocol?
- M. A. McLean; R. J. Frederick; P. L. Traynor; J. I. Cohen; J. Komen / International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002
- This paper brings together contributions to a meeting held in July 2001 entitled “A Framework for Biosafety Implementation: A Tool for Capacity Building.” The purpose of this meeting was to devise a conceptual framework to a...
- How can consumer countries deny market access to illegally logged timber products?
- D. Brack; K. Gray; G. Hayman / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002
- This report examines how importing/consuming governments might establish and operate a system for denying market access to timber and wood products produced and exported illegally. It covers processes and procedures for identifying il...
- How should developing countries go about implementing the Biosafety Protocol?
- M. A. McLean; R. J. Frederick; P. L. Traynor; J. I. Cohen; J. Komen / International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002
- This paper brings together contributions to a meeting held in July 2001 entitled “A Framework for Biosafety Implementation: A Tool for Capacity Building.” The purpose of this meeting was to devise a conceptual framework to a...
- How can consumer countries deny market access to illegally logged timber products?
- D. Brack; K. Gray; G. Hayman / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002
- This report examines how importing/consuming governments might establish and operate a system for denying market access to timber and wood products produced and exported illegally. It covers processes and procedures for identifying il...
- Can ecological concerns be accomodated in rural development policies where conservation is not the primary aim?
- R. Grimble; M. Laidlaw / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002
- ODI briefing paper looking at biological resources and their management, for both conservation and people's livlihoods with a view to outlining a framework for best practice. The paper focusses on developments since the Rio Earth Summ...
- Research and development of GMOs: biosafety and the precautionary principle in developing countries
- Gurdial Singh Nijar / Third World Network, 2000
- This paper examines the possible impact of the Cartagena Protocol on the development of GM technologies from the perspective of developing countries. The author outlines the relevant provisions of the protocol (Articles 2(2), 16(2), 1...
- What elements are required for an effective biosafety liability protocol?
- Gurdial Singh Nijar / Third World Network, 2000
- This paper explores the options for a liabilty regime drawing on potentially similar regimes from other conventions and examing the possibility of tailoring elements of these to fit the circumstances of the Biosafety Protocol. ...
- Is the biosafety protocol a positive addition to international environmental and trade law?
- A. Cosbey; S. Burgiel / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2000
- Briefing paper looking into the Biosafety protocol of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The authors discuss the process by which the agreement was reached and ask how strong is the resulting protocol; what does—and doesn...
- Forest biodiversity and the CBD work programme
- World Conservation Union, 2002
- IUCN document which calls on the Conference of Parties (COP) to move from a research orientated work programme on forest biological diversity towards a more action orientated programme. It identifies conservation, sustainable use, sus...
- Farmers rights, plant variety protection and patents
- M. Blakeney / Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002
- This report addresses policy options for developing countries in implementing legislation dealing with plant variety rights, farmers’ rights and bioprospecting in the context of the following key issues: The link b...
- Species protection, trade issues and development
- B. Dickson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002
- Looks at how CITES measures have evolved over time and the growing interest in the use of restricted trade measures as a conservation tool. The report critically examines the effectiveness of CITES measures and looks at the extent to ...
- Comparative look at plant variety protection measures under TRIPS, CBD, UPOVand some African countries interpretations.
- T Kongolo / GRAIN, 2001
- Examines the international protection of new varieties of plants, and outlines the difficulties developing countries in general, and African countries in particular, might encounter in the course of implementing these Conventions. ...
- CDM Policy Dialogue
- Independent high-level panel on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
- International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
- The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) is an intergovernmental organisation promoting the conservation and sustainable management, use and trade of tropical forest resources. Its members represent about 80 per cent of the world's tropical forests and 90 per cent of the global tropical timber trade.
- Oslo Climate and Forest Conference (OSFC)
- International conference on climate and forests held in Oslo, Norway, May 2010
- The Earth System Governance Project
- A governance and global environmental change research network
- Öko-Institut e.V. - Institute for Applied Ecology
- European research and consultancy institute
- European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi)
- Organisation that provides capacity building to support climate change negotiations
- Eldis Environment Resource Guide
- An Eldis resource guide on environmental issues
- Global Environmental Facility Evaluation Office (GEF Evaluation Office)
- The GEF's independent evaluation office
