– The Global South does not want the Global North, which has technology and money, to take genetic resources from the South and earn money from it without giving something back. So, the issue of equitable sharing of benefits is not new, but something must be done about the imbalance between those that provide the genetic resources and those that strengthen their science and economy by using them. There is still a lack of trust between the North and South, says Aysegül Sirakaya
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Video interview with Aysegül Sirakaya
About the researchers
Aysegul Sirakaya is a researcher at the Faculty of Law in Lund and a specialist in the Nagoya Protocol. Aysegül will participate in COP15 to follow the discussions about an equitable sharing of benefits from genetic resources.
Torsten Krause is a senior lecturer at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. His research focuses on, among other things, Amazon deforestation and policy issues relating to biodiversity.
Both researchers are members of the ASG Benefit-sharing of Genetic Resources at the Pufendorf IAS.
About the Advanced Study Group
The ASG Benefit-sharing of Genetic Resources debates the many dimensions of benefit-sharing in the context of genetic resources, having identified a lack of universally accepted definitions, objectives, and methods of benefit-sharing available for the members of the scientific community and wider stakeholder groups.