Talk:Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

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Whew. Another tough one to write, as it summarizes a political controversy. But it ties up the various issues with small-b small-p biosafety protocol - and provides references to the players. I need to find the UN weapons inspection and bioweapons proliferation links.

What's tough about this is that Greens insist on making a connection between spread of manmade organisms and human conflict, and the powers-that-be insist on not making it, treating the two definitions of "biosecurity" as separate...

I managed to highlight this issue much more clearly here - it got messy when I tried to do it in "biosecurity"... also this leaves the door open to discuss biosecurity_protocol (small-b small-p) generically and thus it's clear that Biosecurity_Protocol (big-B big-P) DOES NOT EXIST and that it's just a proposal being kicked around (mostly by Greens) as a kind of global governance scheme.

The problem with the earlier entries, which I realized thanks to the controversy about them, was that there are four clearly different things at four clearly different levels of reality: Biosafety Protocol is totally real and agreed on, biosafety protocol is a generic term including many things that aren't in it, biosecurity protocol is a generic term evolving to try to bring the various constitutencies together, and Biosecurity Protocol is total blue-sky politically-proposed fiction.

Whew.

Biosafety protocol and Biosafety Protocol currently point to different articles (the latter redirects to Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety). Should they be merged in some way?

So who are the signatories?

There's over 50 of them, but who are they? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.173.120.104 (talk) 13:58, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]