Convention on Biological Diversity

According to Kathleen McAfee:


 * "New, supranational  environmental  institutions,  including  the Convention on Biological Diversity  (CBD) and  the  "green" World Bank,  reflect attempts  to  regulate  international  flows of "natural capital" by means of an approach  I call green developmentalism.   These  institutions are sources of eco-development dollars and of a new "global" discourse, a postneoliberal environmental-economic paradigm...


 * "Prominent actors in  the promotion of a global green developmentalist agenda  include  the World Bank's Environment Department, OECD  patent  offices  and  representatives  to international  environmental  negotiations,  the  quasi-governmental World Intellectual Property Organization  (WIPO) and World Conservation Union  (IUCN), and corporate  lobbying bodies such as  the US Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).  Green developmentalism has growing support among mainstream conservationist organizations  such as World Resources Institute and Worldwide Fund for Nature, as well as among academic scientists and environmental policy makers,  lawyers, and economists."

Other Criticism

 * Timothy Swanson, "Why is their a biodiversity convention? The international interest in centralized development planning," International Affairs, 1999, 75, pp.307-331.

Related Sourcewatch

 * Michael S. Coffman
 * Anthony Reginald Gross
 * Kerry ten Kate
 * Florence Wambugu
 * U.S. Promotion of Ag Biotech in Mozambique
 * Joel I. Cohen
 * Holly T. Dublin