In the July-August 2008 edition of Z Magazine:
One Leap Backwards for Biodiversity, One Giant Step Forward for Industry
Biodiversity loses at UN convention on biodiversity
By Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle; photos by Langelle
[Note: IPOs stand for Indigenous Peoples Organizations]
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) emerged, along with its cousin
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), out of the Rio Earth
Summit in 1992. Its mission is ostensibly to recommend solutions to the
escalating biodiversity crisis, which is manifesting in the extinctions of
hundreds of species every day and which threatens the existence of entire races
of people.