Das Übereinkommen über biologische Vielfalt: Steuerungskraft und Perspektiven

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is – alongside the United Nation's (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) – the most important result of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The objectives of the CBD are the conservation of biological diversity and the sustainable use of its components, as well as the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources. With its ecological and socio-economic approach it aims to implement the principle of sustainability par excellence. The following article provides an overview of the CBD. It concentrates on the access-and-benefit-sharing (ABS) which is laid down primarily in the Nagoya Protocol (2010). With the implementation of the ABS-Regulation into EU Law (2014) and German Law (2016) a very complex legal system has been established (2016). The article analyses these legal developments and evaluates the effectiveness of this regulation.