The United Nations develops measures to deal with "biological resources plunder"

Introduction: representatives of countries participating in the UN International Conference on biological diversity reached a consensus today, agreeing to take new measures to deal with the "plunder of biological resources", and requiring some multinational companies to share the profits of relevant biological products with resource countries The so-called "biological resources plunder" refers to the behavior that some multinational companies use wild animal and plant resources to develop biological drugs, but do not share product profits with the countries of origin of these wild creatures At the International Conference on biodiversity, which is currently being held in the Hague, the Netherlands, a guiding principle will be formulated for this behavior, that is, only when transnational corporations share profits of relevant biological products with wild resource countries or pay royalties to resource countries, can transnational corporations enter wild resource countries to carry out wild resource development activities The guiding principle will also establish rules to ensure that developing countries benefit from research and development of wild resources The head of the United Nations Environment Programme, Mr trepfer, said the guiding principles reached at the meeting would be a universally accepted norm and a better way to obtain wildlife resources more equitably For a long time, wildlife resource countries, especially some developing countries, have accused transnational corporations of plundering their resources and making huge profits It is estimated that the major multinational companies in the global pharmaceutical industry can obtain up to US $30 billion worth of wild animal and plant resources from tropical countries every year, but these resource countries can only get very little profit return (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: