A Liability and Redress Regime for Genetically Modified Organisms under the Cartagena Protocol

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I. INTRODUCTION

During the period between 1996 and 2000, the global area of transgenic or genetically modified crops increased more than twenty-five-fold and the number of countries growing transgenic crops more than doubled, increasing from six in 1996 to thirteen in 2000.1 More than a decade after the first genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were commercialized and released into the environment, researchers and scientists still disagree about the potential effects, positive and negative, on the environment.2

For example, after a year and a half of research by more than twenty researchers from universities and industries on the potential threat of genetically modified …