ESPM 169: Notes on CBDSeptember 16, 2003General Notes: - reading review - due Sept 23 - Group Topics1. Climate Change2. Ozone Depletion3. Hazardous Waste Trading4. Forests/Deforestation5. Persistent Organic Pollutants6. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)7. International Whaling Convention - or Fish? 8. Something Oceans: Marpol? - Birnie chapter for sectionsCBD Text:1. Structure - preamble - articles - annexes - administrative details - amendments - accession, acceptance, ratification (accession - after entry into force; adoption and acceptance different modes of ratification for countries with different legal system)- parties and signatories2. Questions - see answers3. Other points - principle: sovereignty - in situ cf. ex situ conservation - conservation and sustainable use - groups of countries: G77; OECD (ECE) - technology: includes biotechnology (hence, interest from biotech industry) - use of terms like “environmentally sound management” and “prior informed consent” - relationship with other international agreements, law: intellectual property rights - art. 16:5; WTO - Article 22 - shall not conflict unless significantly damages BD - clearing house mechanism - SBSTTA: Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice - strengthening: COPs, protocols, reports - signatories and ratifications4. Assessments from Text - generally considered weak; no fixed targets or obligations5. Development - subsequent meetings - Biosafety protocol - 19:3 - IPRs and TRIPs - GEFReadings: McGraw cf. Guruswamy - trade-offs in McGraw - Guruswamy: profoundly critical of the CBD: prioritizes economic growth over SD; denies state responsibility for damage to global commons; repudiates "common heritage" notion (plus any effort made by the south must be bankrolled by the
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