Legal Aspects of Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

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 (CBD) 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 (COPMOP) to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 5), 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