Press release 20/2010 from 29.03.2010 | Last changed: 17.07.2013
Global treaty on biopiracy in sight
… for negotiation of an international regime on access and benefit sharing of genetic resources. Its purpose is to create a global legal framework that regulates both access to genetic resources and the distribution of the profits made through their commercial use. … large share of Earth’s biological diversity is in the developing world. If products resourced there are developed into profit-making products around the world, the …