Biodiversity since Rio: the future of the convention on biological diversity. From: Environment | Date: May 1, 1996| Author: Raustiala, Kal; Victor, David G. | COPYRIGHT 1996 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity are ambitious and almost unachievable. However, global leaders can capitalize on its ambiguity to form more responsive and realistic measures to preserving the environment.

Biodiversity is the diversity of species, genetic material, and ecosystems or, more generally, "the variability among living organisms."(1) Loss of biodiversity may pose the world's greatest ecological danger. Diversity is a foundation of natural ecosystems. E...

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