基因污染、生物安全与国际环境保护--《生物安全议定书》与国际环境法的新发展

伴随着转基因技术的发展 ,产生了基因污染 ,现代生物技术效益与危险性并存 ,为了防止基因污染的危害 ,保护地球生物多样性 ,包括中国在内的 70多个国家签署了《生物安全议定书》,《生物安全议定书》主要对转基因活生物体的越境转移即国际贸易的安全性作出了规定 ,这对于国际环境保护的发展具有深远意义 ,作为一个条约 ,它首次将转基因技术的发展与生态环境的保护联系起来 ,并将对各国转基因技术的发展 ,对转基因技术及其产品 (Genetically Modified Organisms,GMO)的国际贸易产生影响 ,从而影响地球生态环境的保护 ,也使国际环境法出现了一个新领域 :转基因技术与生物多样性的国际保护

Gene Contamination,Biosafety and the Protection of International Environment-- "The Protocol on Biosafety" and the New Development of International Environment Law

Gene contamination has arisen with the development of transgenic technology.Because in modern transgenic technology the benefit side coexists with the danger side,more than 70 countries (including the People's Republic of China) signed "The Protocol of Biosafety" in order to prevent the endanger of gene contamination,and to protect the diversity of biology."The Protocol on Biosafety" is mainly about the safety of transnational transfer in other words the international trade of genetically modified organisms.The protocol is very important to the development of environment protection.As a kind of treaty,the protocol first contacted the developing of the transgenic technology with the protection of the ecology,it will affect on the developing of transgenic technology and GMOs,thereby will also affect greatly on the protection of ecology,this is a new field appeared in international envivoment law:the genic tehnology and the protection of biological diversity.