Wednesday, October 10, 2012

“de-Formalizing CBD”:- Sense of Urgency is missing in CBD Process!

Convention of Biodiversity (CBD) Conference of Parties (COP-11) is being organized in Hyderabad currently where 193 countries negotiate on issues surrounding biodiversity conservation and access to biodiversity & sharing benefits there from, utilization of traditional knowledge, finance mechanism to fund conservation, etc.
The whole process is very complicated and the words are beyond comprehension of even those who work in related field. To de-formalize the process we are presenting a series called “de-Formalizing CBD” in which experts, activists, conservationists, policy makers and country negotiators interact with Indian Youth Delegation participating in the CBD COP11.
To initiate the series today we invited Neha Sinha to get a perspective on the CBD process from a young, knowledgeable person. Neha is currently working as Policy & Advocacy Officer at Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) writing regularly for their publication “Hornbill”. The excerpts of the conversation are shared below:

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