Monitoring and Tracking the Economics of Information in the Convention on Biological Diversity: Studied Ignorance (2002-2011)

Oduardo-Sierra, Omar; Hocking, Barbara Ann; Vogel, Joseph Henry

doi:10.5539/jpl.v5n2p29

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“…This unwelcome question has been voiced in COP after COP. Studied ignorance is the nonresponse and engenders cynicism (Oduardo-Sierra et al, 2012;Vogel et al, 2011). Satire understandably ensues.…”

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Bounded openness: A robust modality of access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits

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Angerer

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution is underway. Controversy surrounds the choice of modality for access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilization, as established in the third objective of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The modality chosen by the Conference of the Parties should promote conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources, which are the first and second objectives of the convention. "Bounded openness over natural information" achieves all three objectives by aligning incentives between users and Providers. With philanthropic support, the modality can also be applied to unpublished traditional knowledge, which would enhance food security.

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Bounded openness: A robust modality of access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits

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“…Pioneers in the economics of information have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1974, 1982, and 2001(Nobelprize.org, 2013. Nevertheless, the Ratified Parties have ignored the application of the economics of information despite its recurrent appearance in the literature since 1992 (Oduardo-Sierra, et al, 2012). Although economics can be abstruse, its studied ignorance in the COPs is not due to any inherent complexity.…”

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The Tragedy of Unpersuasive Power: The Convention on Biological Diversity as Exemplary

Vogel¹

2013

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The complement to "The Tragedy of the Commons" is "The Tragedy of Unpersuasive Power." A class of problems exists for which technical solutions go unheeded. Logic and evidence do not prevail. Nevertheless, the fallacies and rhetoric do make sense in the light of human evolution as eusocial: groupthink is the consequence of group selection. Exemplary of the class of problems is "access to genetic resources [and] the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources," (ABS) of the 1993 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Capacious language in the 2010 Nagoya Protocol on ABS has immortalized contentious issues which could have been resolved through the economics of information, elaborated since 1992. The online discussion groups of the ABS Clearing House afford a natural experiment to test the tragedy. The solution is "delegated delegation" driven by a quest for legacy by the leadership.

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Human Pathogens as Capstone Application of the Economics of Information to Convention on Biological Diversity: The Receptivity of Research Scientists

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Economics provides powerful abstraction. To deploy that power the object of resource allocation must be correctly identified. The 1992 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the 2010 Nagoya Protocol (NP) define "genetic resources" as "material" despite being immaterial. The error has generated unresolved and contentious issues surrounding access and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from utilization (ABS). A correct classification of the object as "natural information" invites "the economics of information" with radically different implications for policy: bounded openness, tracking utilization through disclosure in patents and royalties shared proportional to habitat among "countries of origin." Human pathogens are a peculiar case of applying the same economics of information where the overarching objective is inverted: in situ eradication rather than in situ conservation. Because time translates into lives, incentives must be institutionalized for speedy entry of samples into the international medical research stream with sharing in benefits for utilization on a nuanced first-to-submit principle. As such the benefits would be greatest for just one country of origin which could then determine incentives within its scientific community. Researchers who have published work on pathogens in the first year of the NP (2011) were surveyed. The results support the application of the economics of information to ABS policy.

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Monitoring and Tracking the Economics of Information in the Convention on Biological Diversity: Studied Ignorance (2002-2011)

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References 19 publications

Bounded openness: A robust modality of access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits

Bounded openness: A robust modality of access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits

The Tragedy of Unpersuasive Power: The Convention on Biological Diversity as Exemplary

Human Pathogens as Capstone Application of the Economics of Information to Convention on Biological Diversity: The Receptivity of Research Scientists

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