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https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/un-summit-approves-fund-to-share-benefits-of-natures-sequenced-genetic-data/article68823148.ece A UN nature summit agreed in Colombia on Saturday (November 2, 2024) on the creation of a fund to share the profits of digitally sequenced genetic data taken from animals and plants with the communities they come from.
Such data, much of it from species found in poor countries, is notably used in medicines and cosmetics that can make their developers billions.