This commentary is organized into two parts. Part I distills five considerations for negotiators developing the modus operandi of the permanent Subsidiary Body on Article 8(j) (SB8J) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Part II sets out the institutional history and reasoning from which those considerations follow. Read more ▸
The digital sequence information (DSI) Multilateral Mechanism allows monetary benefit-sharing without tracing every sequence to every downstream use. But that does not make provenance, knowledge relationships, or Indigenous and community governance irrelevant. The next phase of DSI implementation raises a different question: What should remain connected to biological information as it moves through global data infrastructures? Read more ▸
Allocation, provenance, and certificate recognition shape provider-country confidence in the digital sequence information (DSI) Multilateral Mechanism Read more ▸
As countries prepare to translate international biodiversity goals into national policy, the recognition of Indigenous and Traditional Territories must preserve the distinction between territorial governance and conservation classification Read more ▸
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