(General Studies Special) Leadership Role of India on Biodiversity by VVR IAS

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Leadership Role of India on Biodiversity

Important for IAS mains General Studies - 2012

At times when the world was losing its faith in the multilateralism either within the United Nations system or outside, the outputs of the 10th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP-10)* on the Convention of Biological Diversity came like a breath of fresh air wherein decisions were taken on setting up of global targets for achieving the target of biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of the bioresources and equitable share of the benefits arising. (Aichi-Nagoya Global Biodiversity Targets). In this convention a new 10 year strategic plan was agreed along with a global multilateral protocol on rules to access the genetic resources and benefits sharing (ABS) on October 29th, 2010 Nogoya, Japan.

India's Stand / Journey so far

In order to coincide with twenty years of the Rio Earth Summit (1992), India is hosting the eleventh meeting of Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) during October 2012 (8-19th October, Hyderabad - India). it is in fact a strategic plan by the Government of India to establish and support the global environmental through biodiversity during the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity (UNDB-2011-2020).