Q99.
Consider the following statements : 1. In India, the Biodiversity Management committees are key to the realization of the objectives of Nagoya Protocol. 2. The Biodiversity Management committees have important functions in determining access and benefit sharing, including the power to levy collection fees on the access of biological resources within its jurisdiction. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer
C
Explanation
1 is correct: Under Section 41(1) of the Diversity Act, 2002, every local body in the shall constitute a Biodiversity Management within its area of jurisdiction for the purpose promoting conservation, sustainable use and of biological diversity including of habitats, conservation of land races, folk & cultivars, domesticated stocks and breeds of and micro-organisms and chronicling of relating to biological diversity. Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising their Utilization to the Convention on Biological also known as the Nagoya Protocol on Access Benefit Sharing is a 2010 supplementary agreement the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity. It aims share the benefits that arise from the utilization of resources fairly and equitably thus BMCs have role to play in the implementation of the of the Nagoya Protocol. 2 is correct: The main function of the BMC is prepare People's Biodiversity Register (PBR) in with local people. The Register shall comprehensive information on availability and of local biological resources, their medicinal any other use or any other traditional knowledge with them. The BMC may levy charges by of collection fees from any person for accessing or any biological resource for commercial from areas falling within its territorial