Opinion

In this article, accessible on Illuminem , Bob Kreiken argues that UN biodiversity talks should account for national innovation systems to balance conservation with technological development. The article argues that equitable, innovation-friendly policies can help countries contribute to biodiversity goals while supporting research, technology transfer, and economic competitiveness, ensuring negotiations complement innovation capacities of recipient countries of the Cali FUnd

This essay argues that persistent imbalances in non-state actor engagement undermine the legitimacy and effectiveness of international climate and biodiversity governance and that more balanced engagement is essential for translating commitments into real-world action.

Accessible on website of London School of Economics: The Cali Fund: unlocking industry contributions to finance biodiversity conservation - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment .

In this commentary, Alex Reep and colleagues explore whether the new Cali Fund can address biopiracy and historical inequities in the use of genetic resources. The full article is accessible on Mongabay: Can the Cali Fund provide a rights-based remedy for biopiracy? (commentary) .

This blog post, accessible on the Maripoldata website , summarizes and reflects on discussions at the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) first meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information (DSI) on Genetic Resources, which took place on November 14-18 in Geneva. It explores some of the key issues under negotiation, namely whether benefit-sharing on DSI should be mandatory or voluntary, how benefit-sharin

Adam McCarthy looks at how to link open and widely-shared digital genetic sequences with the ecosystems and nations where they are found in nature. Available on website of the Biologist (Royal Society of Biology): The digital loophole .