It's the willing collaboration between two species, a sharing of benefits.
"The important thing is that there be a sharing of benefits, which is not possible under the current system".
In August striking landowners halted construction at a site in Tari, Southern Highlands province, in a dispute over the sharing of benefits from the project.
One of the largest international environmental agreements, the CBD's three objectives include conservation of biodiversity; sustainable use of biodiversity; and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from genetic resources of biodiversity.
Until very recently, most of these institutes and establishments have not had clear policies and guidelines on the sharing of benefits of such inventions.
Judgments about the justice of the sharing of benefits generated by a certain platform should take this into account (Tang et al. 2006).
International agreements, including the Convention on Biodiversity, seek to address the sustainability of bioprospecting and the equitable sharing of benefits with indigenous peoples.
In fact, the research has revealed that considerable barriers currently exist to meeting the requirement of equality between partners and the mutual sharing of benefits.
The sharing of benefits is the key element for which the common heritage of mankind is best known.
But when it came to subscribing to the equitable sharing of benefits from the sea, the U.S. balked, bogging down negotiations for more than a decade.
'Equitable sharing of benefits, emerging from the sustainable use of these ecosystems, is being seen an important goal to pursue today,' claims Dr Amita Prasad Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC).
