SouthViews No. 291, 8 August 2025
Alternative Modality for Landmark Decision of UN Convention on Biodiversity: Bounded Openness over Natural Information
By Joseph Henry Vogel
The Secretariat of the 1993 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity requested Submissions of Views on “possible additional modalities for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources”. Bounded Openness over Natural Information is an alternative that could supplant the modalities of Decision 16/2 and achieve fairness, equity and efficiency.