Keep talking while everything gets sequenced: Is global governance of Genetic Resources keeping pace with digitization?
(2024)
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- The digitization of data originating from the genomic analysis of biological material was long considered a minor technical-scientific detail in the global negotiations over environmental governance. During the last decade, it has gradually become a key element of many, if not all negotiation fora dealing with genetic resources: terrestrial and marine biodiversity, agriculture, health and human genomics. Genomics is the cornerstone of modern biology and large DNA sequencing projects are expanding in the big data era. Meanwhile, no standardized governance solution emerged. In this paper, we take a snapshot of the various debates over Digital Sequence Information in all the international environmental fora dealing with biodiversity, global health, and genetic resources. We discuss the extent to which the increasing institutional and legal fragmentation, essentially dealing with very similar issues and with often distinct governance procedures, stakeholders or spatial scope, is shaping the future of the Access and Benefit Sharing regime complex. While equity has become a central element of multilateral environmental negotiations, we question the ability of an increasingly fragmented institutional regime to effectively tackle global challenges like the biodiversity crisis or the next pandemic.
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Sylvain Aubry, Walckiers, P., & Frison, C. (2024). Keep talking while everything gets sequenced: Is global governance of Genetic Resources keeping pace with digitization? https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236270