Akiho Shibata is a Professor of International Law at the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe University, Japan. He was a member of the Japanese delegation to negotiate the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol from 2006-2010.

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was adopted in 2010 and provides international rules and procedures in the field of liability for damage to biological diversity. This book examines the legal significance of key provisions of the Supplementary Protocol, and focuses on the use of an administrative approach to liability for biodiversity damage. With negotiators and advisers from some of the key negotiating parties among the contributors, the book provides valuable insights into the multilateral environmental treaty-making process.

1. Introduction, Akiho Shibata Part 1: The Context and Negotiation 2. A New Dimension in International Environmental Liability Regimes:A Prelude to the Supplementary Protocol, Akiho Shibata 3. Negotiating the Supplementary Protocol: The Co-Chair's Perspective, René Lefeber and Jimena Nieto Carrasco Part 2: The Significance and Critiques 4. The Legal Significance of the Supplementary Protocol: The Result of a Paradigm Revolution, René Lefeber 5. Administrative Approach to Liability: Its Origin, Negotiation and Outcome, Alejandro Lago Candeira 6. A Scientific Perspective on the Supplementary Protocol, Reynaldo Ariel Alvarez-Morales 7. Civil Liability in the Supplementary Protocol, Gurdial Singh Nuar 8. One Legally-Binding Provision on Civil Liability: Why Was It So Important from the African Negotiators' Perspective 9. Trade and the Supplementary Protocol: How to Achieve Mutual Supportiveness, Rodrigo C. A. Lima 10. The Supplementary Protocol: A Treaty Subject to Domestic Law?, Worku Damena Yifru and Kathryn Garforth Part 3: The Implementation 11. Challenges and Opportunities in the Implementation of the Supplementary Protocol: Reinterpretation and Re-imagination, Dire Tladi 12. The Supplementary Protocol and the EU Environmental Liability Directive: Similarities and Differences, Edward Brans and Dorith Dongelmans 13. A Japanese Approach to the Domestic Implementation of the Supplementary Protocol, Eriko Futami and Tadashi Ohtsuka 14. The Industry's Compact and Its Implication for the Supplementary Protocol, J. Thomas Carrato, John Barkett and Phil Goldberg 15. Conclusion: Beyond the Supplementary Protocol, Akiho Shibata