As with climate talks, there are big divisions between the Global North and the Global South while fault lines focus on money; 30x30; the monitoring of targets and delivery mechanisms; and a row over digital sequence information relating to biopiracy.
The final text — the GBF — requires unanimous agreement to pass. It is due to be completed by December 19th. As always, everything could change in the final hours. An agreement will not be legally binding though the aims of the CBD are, so it will have significant teeth.: More than 110 countries support a proposal to conserve at least 30 per cent of land and ocean by the end of the decade — the so-called “30x30 goal”.
Genetic resource sharing means distributing any benefits, including profit, that come from using genes found in the world’s living organisms to create new products including medicines. Agriculture is an obvious example: much of the genetic information used to create new, drought-resistant “cropscomes” from plants in the southern hemisphere but companies developing them are typically in the north.As of now, the talks are bogged down by too little agreement on too many issues.