Preface
p. 7-10
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1We are delighted to preface this book, which is the result of our institutions' shared commitment to advancing knowledge and promoting action to preserve biodiversity.
2The Nagoya Protocol has revolutionised research on the living world by formally incorporating the issues of access and appropriation, justice and equity, into its everyday activities. As institutions and scientists working with biological resources and the associated knowledge, it compels us to examine the key ethical and economic implications of our research. We must also examine the form that the direct or indirect benefits serving the conservation of biodiversity and its stakeholders, indigenous peoples, managers or politicians, should take.
3The Protocol has major ramifications for the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and the French National Natural History Museum (MNHN). Committed to furthering knowledge, conservation and enhancement of biodiversity, these institutions defend a science of sustainability that lies at the convergence of Earth, life, human and social sciences. Above all, they have a long tradition of working in an equitable partnership and co-construction with actors in the French Overseas Territories and the Global South.
4The Nagoya Protocol has thus helped our institutions to embrace the plurality of knowledge systems, with special attention to indigenous and local populations. It also strengthens the co-construction of programmes with multiple partners, including those involved in participatory-science-based approaches. Our institutions are working specifically to integrate and promote procedures to implement the principles of fair and equitable sharing enshrined in the Protocol.
5IRD and MNHN were the first to implement the obligations of the Nagoya Protocol. Dedicated units have been established for access and benefit-sharing (ABS) mechanisms and protocol implementation. Their responsibility is to ensure the legal compliance of specimen collections, their conservation and utilisation. It is also to raise awareness and inform research, administration and collection personnel, and to organize symposia and training. Finally, ABS units ensure coordination with the Ministries in charge of Research and the Environment, other French higher education and research institutions, and territorial stakeholders. In doing so, our institutions make a significant contribution to France's commitment to the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
6This book presents the results of research conducted by our respective institutions and their partners. It is accompanied and enriched by the lessons learned from the experiences of ABS units and testimonies from partners in the French Overseas Territories and the Global South. The Protocol's limitations and potential are analysed because, beyond its ambitions, the complexity of its implementation and the low monetary returns that it generates, testify to the difficulties in setting up mechanisms that can both benefit communities that use or possess knowledge about biodiversity and strengthen actions to protect this biological diversity.
7These analyses are highly relevant in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has rapidly increased our awareness of inequalities in access to resources and the interdependence of all life forms, with human health linked to that of other living things and ecosystems. To preserve biodiversity, our societies must redirect their development trajectories towards production and consumption models that are ecologically but also socially and politically sustainable in order to guarantee environmental justice for humans and other species alike.
8While the Nagoya Protocol alone cannot address the enormity of these questions, it clearly expresses the demands for justice and equity that are strongly reflected in the agreement, and give rise to the passionate debates that are presented which such rigor and clarity in this book.
Auteurs
Chairwoman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (Institut de recherche pour le développement)
President of the French National Natural History Museum (Muséum national d’histoire naturelle)
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