Biodiversity components which are to be used sustainably and equitably include landscapes, ecosystems, species and biological resources.
Both the Indian and Thai governments are currently drafting biodiversity laws to regulate access to their biological resources and protect traditional medicine.
For businesses utilizing genetic resources, the new Protocol is particular important, but for all businesses, the broader objective is to ensure social equity with respect to the use of all biological resources.
Human emigration caused by overall environmental degradation (unsustainable use of water and biological resources, unsustainable tourism) is now being addressed through a variety of pilot projects such as sustainable pasture management, ecotourism, the creation of fishing and hunting farms, and the development of alternative power sources.
Indeed, if the US is to play a leadership role in the IPBES, it could use this position to ensure that business in fully engaged in the development of policies which ensure not only that biodiversity is conserved but that biological resources are used sustainably and responsibility.
FORBES: US getting serious about international biodiversity policy
This Inter-Ministerial Meeting will embrace a workshop for experts from the English-speaking Caribbean region in order enable participants exchange their views and acquire skills to identify projects to relevant sectors, products and services by promoting the conservation of biological diversity and natural resources.
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Neither UNCLOS nor the Convention on Biological Diversity regulates the use of living resources found beyond continental shelves or Exclusive Economic Zones. (Within these Zones, the related provisions of UNCLOS, which favour essentially national interests, would apply.) Living resources in the deep seabed were unknown when UNCLOS was being negotiated.
The Center for Biological Diversity was one of three environmental groups, including Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council, that sued the federal government to force a decision on the status of the polar bears.
The study, published in the international journal Biological Invasions, suggested that European hares exhibit strong competition for habitat space and food resources with native species, most notably other hare species.
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