Position Statements on Biotechnology Agenda 21 Website: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agenda21.htm Chapter 16 - Environmentally Sound Management of Biotechnology - click here Agenda 21 includes detailed action plans on the deployment of biotechnology, capacity building, and technology transfer for sustainable development. Agenda 21 recognizes the importance of biotechnology in achieving development objectives. The goals expressed in Chapter 16 are to encourage international agreement on the safe and environmentally responsible management of biotechnology, to engender public trust and confidence, to promote the development of sustainable applications of biotechnology and to establish appropriate enabling mechanisms, especially within developing countries. Biotechnology integrates new techniques emerging from modern technology with long-established traditional knowledge. Chapter 16 states that biotechnology carries significant potential for addressing many environment and development problems, including "better health care, enhanced food security, improved supplies of potable water, more efficient industrial processes, sustainable methods of afforestation and reforestation, and detoxification of hazardous wastes". Chapter 16 goes on to say "..in addition, [biotechnology] offers much potential for cooperation and partnership between developing nations who are rich in biological diversity and the developed nations who have developed the technological expertise to transform these biological resources into products and processes which can serve the needs of sustainable development." |
International Support: - Food
and Agricultural Organization - Agenda
21 - International Council for Science Union - International Life Sciences Institute - International
Society of African Scientists - Nigerian President Obasanjo's Statement - Asian
Development Bank - Prime Minister Blair's speech
United States of America - American
Medical Association
Canada - Canadian
Biotechnology Advisory Committee - Brazilian
Academy of Sciences - New Zealand Royal Commission - Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organization |
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