That's why they provide the highest quality full spectrum CBD oils in America, building on 250 years of Kentucky's unparalleled hemp tradition. Full disclosure: I own shares in many of the cannabis companies mentioned in this blog, including Cronos, Aurora and MedMen. As a global communications initiative, the AfS supports science-based solutions to the key issues affecting communities, including the need to reduce agriculture’s environmental footprint, mitigate the climate crisis, reduce poverty, and improve food security and nutrition. Qaim, M. 2017. Globalisation of Agrifood Systems and Sustainable Nutrition. It also considers that access to and transfer of biotechnologies are essential to attain its objectives and sets an obligation for parties to develop national biosafety systems (Articles 8 and 16 of the Convention of Biological Diversity). Depending on the final language of the biotech target (Target 17), the convention will either support an enabling policy environment that allows for the development and adoption of innovations in agricultural biotechnology or it will discourage the use of biotechnology by using language that focuses only on risks, which can lead to restrictive national policies. 2) that the parties should recognize the positive impacts of biotechnology on Target 17 of the GBF because there is abundant literature that demonstrates the benefits and recognizing these will encourage the use of biotech tools to achieve sustainability in agriculture and other areas.

Success in these four areas will be more effective in creating an enabling policy environment for the development and adoption of future biotech solutions for the climate and biodiversity crisis. Public perception can be a significant roadblock for an enabling policy environment that would allow for the development and adoption of biotechnology products for the public good. We are developing more science diplomacy activities, especially those involving young people across the Global South to promote public engagement with the science and the policy challenges that the world must navigate for more sustainable and resilient futures. The rising impact of biodiversity collapse may have been overshadowed in recent years by the more immediate challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ongoing economic recession and extreme weather events due to the climate crisis. 1) For the target to have a simple and operational scope that aligns with the CBD and Cartagena Protocol (CP) and covers living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology.

From this obligation, the Cartagena Protocol was developed. The CBD and its protocols focus on LMOs resulting from modern biotechnology, so too should Target 17. This is important, considering the language "adverse impacts of biotechnology" is much broader than the scope of the CBD and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. We will also be advocating for the use of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs), as they are known under the CBD and Cartagena Protocol, resulting from biotechnology as they offer climate smart solutions, such as drought tolerant, and pesticide resistant seeds among other innovations which support sustainable agriculture, reduce chemical pesticide use and ultimately enhance biodiversity. Consequently, the target should focus only on the ‘risks associated with the use and release of living modified organisms resulting from biotechnology’, which is language directly from the CBD Article 8(g) and Article 1 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. This is critically important because we cannot afford not to use LMOs to help curb biodiversity loss and to address the adverse impacts of climate change on vulnerable countries in the Global South. Recognizing and highlighting these successes will encourage other countries in the Global South to use their local talent, resources, and scientific ingenuity to invest in innovations which offer locally appropriate climate smart solutions.

Brookes G, Barfoot P. 2020. Environmental impacts of genetically modified (GM) crop use 1996-2018: impacts on pesticide use and carbon emissions. The warning advised soldiers not to use electronic cigarettes or vaporizer pens containing cannabidiol, also known as CBD oil. Yuppie CBD oil has been legal since 2016 when the MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) stated that products containing CBD could be classed as medicines., CBD products sold by Holland & Barrett are not medicines but food supplements which have undergone a process whereby our products meet the safety, quality and efficacy standards you expect from a leading high-street retailer in wellness. Utilizing the term "biotechnology" will give Target 17 a broad scope, which means that countries might have to require additional oversight for a broader range of biotech applications. The GBF is effectively the blueprint that all countries will follow to guide their actions towards reducing biodiversity loss for the next 10 years. This could lead to less private and public investment in biotech research and product development and countries having more trouble meeting their environmental and sustainability goals. Narratives that do not consider positive impacts and frame biotech only around risk, however marginal or non-existent the risk may be, do not inspire public confidence.