COP15: Nations debate easy methods to share income from Earth’s genetic knowledge

The query of how finest to share revenues from merchandise developed utilizing genetic knowledge from crops and animals has emerged as a make or break situation at COP15

By James Dinneen

Nations on the COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal are shifting nearer to an settlement on easy methods to share income from merchandise developed utilizing genetic knowledge collected from Earth’s biodiversity. It’s a make-or-break situation for international locations to succeed in a wider deal on defending nature.

The aim of the summit is to agree on a world plan to halt and reverse biodiversity loss over the subsequent decade. However that settlement hinges on a number of parallel …