The 193 countries that are CBD signatories meet biannually, but this year—during a two-week negotiation in Nagoya that ends on October 29th—they are tasked with updating the conservation targets and the means of paying for them. Both are sources of disputes among countries, but soluble ones. A third area, however seems intractable: creating a new protocol to make the access and payment of genetic resources a matter of international law. Poor southern countries that are the source of most of the world's biodiversity want this; the rich northern countries that are the principle users and commercialisers of the genetic resources do not.

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