Is the law facilitative or regulatory? asks a representative. Regulatory, replies another, with conservation and sustainable use as its focus. Two others across the table seem to think that they have been given clear instructions to implement the law in a facilitative manner, so as to incentivise industry to participate in the process. I sit there wondering what really happened. This difference of opinion was emerging from representatives of the institutional framework that was set up under the Biological Diversity (BD) Act, 2002.
The discussion centred around the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) regime that many countries have or. . .
