Urge governments to implement biosafety protocols and adopting cautious approach towards risky technologies like genetic engineering

On the second day of sixth the meeting of parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, civil society groups, particularly from the host country India, urged global leaders to follow the Convention on Biological Diversity, in letter and spirit. They appealed to global nations to ensure that biodiversity and with it the access of the local people to their biological heritage is not sacrificed for risky and irreversible technologies like genetic engineering in agriculture. They demanded that genetically modified organisms and living modified organisms are not released into the environment.