Legal Aspects Of Implementing The Cartagena Protocol On Biosafety

PREFACE

 This book, the first in a new series that focuses on treaty implementation for sustainable development, examines key legal aspects of implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CB,D) at national and international levels. The book provides a serious contribution to the current legal and political academic debates on biosafety by discussing key issues under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety that affect the further design of national and international law on biosafety and analysing recent progress in development of domestic regulatory regimes for biosafety. This text also examines the legal, political, economic, and practical challenges and solutions encountered in recent efforts to develop and implement domestic biosafety regulations, with a focus on developing countries.Coming after the fifth Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties (COP-MOP) to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP s), where the Parties adopted a new Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Protocol on Liability and Redress, this timely book examines recent developments in biosafety law and policy.Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is the Head of Economic Growth and Trade at the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) in Rome, Italy. She co-edits the Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development series with Cambridge University Press, and has authored or edited more than eighty publications, including fourteen books in three lan-guages: Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (2010) and Sustainable Development in World Trade Law (2005) with Dr. M. Gehring; Sustainable Development Law:Principles, Practices and Prospects (2004) with A. Khalfan; and Sustainable Justice: Reconcil. ing Economic, Social and Environmental Law (3004) with H. E. Judge C. G. Weeramantry.In an academic capacity, she also serves as Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) in Montreal, Canada; as Affiliated Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) at Cambridge University, and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Chile Faculty of Law.Frederic Perron-Welch is Managing Director of Bionomos Lad and Programme Coordinator ofthe CISDL Biodiversity and Biosafety Law Research Programme. He has represented the CISDL at a number of meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CB,D), including the roth Convention of the Parties, and interned at the Biosafety Division of the Secretariat of the CB,D in 2009. He is called to the Bar of Ontario, Canada, and articled with the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA).Christine Frison is a Legal Research Fellow with the CISDL and currently conducts joint Ph.D. research as an affiliated junior researcher at the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights(CIR, at the Katholicke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and at the Centre for Philosophy of Law (CPDR) at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She has served as a legal adviser to the Belgian Federal Ministry of Environment, where she remains a member of the Belgian Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) Contact Group. She regularly served on the Belgian delegation in ABS-related international meetings between 2006 and 2009.

Treaty implementation for sustainable development. 

Over the past three decades, a series of international treaties have entered into force to address pressing global concerns - social and economic development and environmental protection. On climate change, biodiversity and biosafety, desertification, agriculture and seeds, and trade and investment liberalisation, new regimes have been established to implement global commitments related to sustainable development, many with nearly universal membershipSuccessful domestic implementation of these international treaty regimes is one of the most significant challenges facing international law today. Although much has been witten on the content and form of treaty law, there is relatively little that examines the transition from international legal theory and treaty texts to domestic regulation and practice.This series of books addresses this need and provides a serious contribution to ongoing global debates by conducting a detailed analysis of how myriad new treaty regimes that cover the future's most pressing concerns can be made to work in practice. It is dedicated to our mentor and first Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), The Honourable Mr. Justice Charles Doherty, Puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Canada from February 1, 1989, to August 1, 2003.