There was a last-minute breakthrough in negotiations for aglobalocean conservation treaty. With organizations such as Greenpeace praising it, I expect Iwould be pretty happy with it.One issue where I might have expected bad decisions was that of controlover "genetic resources" — scientific discoveries that could be madeby studying the genes of ocean life. There have been demands for harmfulpolicies that would declare countries to be the"owners" of genomes found in species found in those countries. That would be unjust.I can't be sure from this article, but I think this treaty chooses abetter approach, that would distribute some of the income from somesorts of activities to some poor countries. I see nothing wrong withthat.