Calendrier des workshops à venir

5 novembre 2024
17h-18h30
Collecting scientific samples: what is at stake for local populations?

Intervenants :
Elisa Morgera : is a professor of Global Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde and an expert in human rights and environmental law. From 2019 to 2024, she directed the One Ocean Hub, a global research initiative on human rights and the Ocean. She is also an UN Special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change.

Dylan McGarry : is working as both a researcher in educational sociology, ecological economics, social/environmental justice, anthropology and social learning. He co-direct the ONE OCEAN HUB global transformative governance research network, and focus his attention on developing Empatheatre ( a theatre-based approach to transgressive social learning, and an extra-legal alternative to democratising policy change).
 

Questions :
General questioning: Are scientific sampling activities subject to the FPIC principle (free, prior and informed consent) recognized by international law for local populations, particularly indigenous peoples? How can scientific benefits be shared with local populations?
Questioning specific to Ice Memory: When drilling on a glacier, how can scientists consider the importance of the glacier for local cultures? Can local populations benefit from the research carried out on ice cores?

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18 novembre 2024
18h-19h30
Governance of international scientific collections

Intervenant :
Åsmund Asdal is a Norwegian horticulturist and ecologist who, for the past 25 years, has been working with projects on conservation and use of plant genetic resources (PGR) on a national and Nordic regional level. Before that he was working as researcher, project manager and through the 1990ties head of a research station in the now called Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research.
From 2000 to 2015, he was in charge of the Norwegian national program for conservation and use of plant genetic resources, from 2006 organized through the Norwegian Genetic Resource Center.
Asdal has been involved in Nordic plant genetic resource activities from the mid-1990s. He has been a board member and conducted projects and working groups within the Nordic Gene Bank, from 2008 re-organized into the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre (NordGen).
From 2015 he has been employed at NordGen as Coordinator of Operation and Management of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Questions :
General questioning: What type of international governance applies to scientific collections aimed at preserving the "memory of the Earth" (e.g. seed banks, gene banks, etc.)? What are the advantages and limitations of these modes of governance?

Questioning specific to Ice Memory: Could the governance mechanisms currently used for gene or seed banks (or other) be applied to Ice Memory ice cores?

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28 novembre 2024
18h-19h30
Preserving scientific samples: what kind of procedures? What kind of liabilities?

Intervenants :
Florian Aumond is a lecturer in public law at the University of Poitiers. He specialises in international public law. His research focuses in particular on the law of the Antarctic Treaty System. He has published several articles on the subject, focusing in particular on issues of territorialisation and wildlife conservation. He coordinated a collective work on the "Terres australes et Antarctiques françaises".

Joëlle Chiche has a background in genetics and evolution and a PhD in Biology.‌ She is now responsible for the scientific unit of the Grenoble Natural History Museum, a team managing collections estimated at 1 to 3 million specimens and objects, a scientific library, and exotic botanical greenhouses.

Questions :
General questioning: What are the legal obligations and responsibilities when it comes to conserving scientific samples and collections? How can the integrity of the scientific heritage be preserved? Should conservation be in situ or ex situ? How can the environment in which the samples are stored be protected from potential hazards ?

Questioning specific to Ice Memory: Do ice cores constitute a potential danger for their conservation environment (particularly in Antarctica)? In line with the current trend towards in situ conservation, shouldn't we consider hybrid conservation in Antarctica and in sampling sites (wherever possible)? Who is responsible for any deterioration of the samples or of the environment in which they are stored?

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