* 1972 – Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.

Biological weapons ( often termed " bio-weapons " or " bio-agents ") are living organisms or replicating entities ( viruses ) that reproduce or replicate within their host victims.

Biological weapons may be employed in various ways to gain a strategic or tactical advantage over an adversary, either by threats or by actual deployments.

Offensive biological warfare, including mass production, stockpiling and use of biological weapons, was outlawed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention ( BWC ).

Biological weapons allow for the potential to create a level of destruction and loss of life far in excess of nuclear, chemical or conventional weapons, relative to their mass and cost of development and storage.

Biological weapons also target fisheries as well as water-based vegetation.

“ Biological weapons have massive, unpredictable, and potentially uncontrollable consequences ,” he declared.

Category: Biological weapons

Category: Biological weapons

Category: Biological weapons

Category: Biological toxin weapons

Category: Biological weapons

Category: Biological weapons

This type of warfare is distinct from Nuclear warfare and Biological warfare, which together make up NBC, the military acronym for Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical ( warfare or weapons ), all of which are considered " weapons of mass destruction " ( WMD ).

* Biological, Nuclear, Chemical, types of weapons of mass destruction

Category: Biological weapons

Category: Biological weapons

Category: Biological toxin weapons

Category: Biological weapons

Category: Biological weapons

The Convention on Biological Diversity ( CBD ), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is an international legally binding treaty.

Indigenous peoples have argued, through various international forums such as the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Convention on Biological Diversity, that there are four pillars of sustainable development, the fourth being cultural.

UNCCD activities are coordinated with the secretariats of other relevant international bodies and conventions, like those of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) and the Convention on Biological Diversity ( CBD ).

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is an international agreement on biosafety, as a supplement to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Owing to the MAB programme ’ s focus to improving mankind's relationship with nature, MAB has gradually been seen as UNESCO ’ s, and as one of the United Nations ’ s most important responses to international dialogues such as the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) and the Convention on Biological Diversity ( CBD ).

The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture ( IT PGRFA ), popularly known as the International Seed Treaty, is a comprehensive international agreement in harmony with the Convention on Biological Diversity, which aims at guaranteeing food security through the conservation, exchange and sustainable use of the world's plant genetic resources for food and agriculture ( PGRFA ), as well as the fair and equitable benefit sharing arising from its use.

Biological nomenclature involves formal rules and periodic international meetings, of the ICBN and the ICZN.

* Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, an international conservation initiative for biodiversity protection across southern Mexico and Central America

* Convention on Biological Diversity, an international legally binding treaty promoting biodiversity

Tanzania is a signatory to a significant number of international conventions, including the Rio Declaration on Development and Environment 1992 and the Convention on Biological Diversity 1996.

The Biological Weapons Convention ( 1972 ) is an international treaty banning the use or stockpiling of bio-agents ; it currently has 165 state signatories.

The antibody formation theory gave Jerne international recognition and in 1956 Jerne went to work for the World Health Organization in Geneva, where he served as the Head of the Sections of Biological Standards and of Immunology.

To define the IU for a substance, an international collaborative study is organized by the WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization using various assay systems in several laboratories.

He helped to found and is one of the editors-in-chief of the most influential international biomedical scientific journal, Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, is a member of the Brazilian National Academy of Sciences and of the Brazilian Council of Science and Technology.

One of CBOL's primary contributions to the success of barcoding has been its outreach efforts to government agencies ( agriculture, environment, conservation, and others ) and international organizations ( CITES, Convention on Biological Diversity, Food and Agriculture Organization ) that could benefit from barcoding.

The Sunshine Project is also active in meetings of the Biological Weapons Convention, the main international treaty prohibiting biological warfare.

* Marine Biological Laboratory ( MBL ) is an international center for research and education in biology, biomedicine and ecology.

But several international environmental conventions exist under the UN, including the Framework Convention on Climate Change, Montreal Protocol, Convention to Combat Desertification, and Convention on Biological Diversity.

BiOS ( Biological Open Source / Biological Innovation for Open Society ) is an international initiative to foster innovation and freedom to operate in the biological sciences.

* Marine Biological Laboratory, an international center for research and education in biology, biomedicine, and ecology

He is a chairman on the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and is on the international advisory board for the Israel Institute of Technology.