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Negotiations of the International Regime on ABS
Welcome to the Information Portal on the negotiations of the International Regime on ABS, which has been developed to assist Parties, other Governments, indigenous and local communities and all relevant stakeholders during the negotiation process by facilitating access to relevant information and news. More ...

For general information on the Convention's work programme on access and benefit-sharing and its implementation (e.g. the database on national measures on ABS), see the ABS programme web pages.

What's New

9 March 2010
Communiqué: President Pohamba of Namibia Opens the African Ministerial Conference on Access and Benefit-sharing. More »
8 March 2010
Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the African Ministerial Conference on Access And Benefit-Sharing, Windhoek, 8 March 2010. More »
15 February 2010
Opening Remarks by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of the Pacific Regional Consultations in Support of the Finalization of the International Regime on Access & Benefit-Sharing, 15-16 February 2010, Auckland, New Zealand. More »

Notifications

5 March 2010 (2010-045)
Access and Benefit-sharing: Co-Chairs Informal Inter-regional Consultation (CIIC), Cali, Colombia, 16-18 March 2010. More »
12 February 2010 (2010-030)
Information regarding funding for the Ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS-9) and the Co-Chairs Informal Inter-regional Consultation (CIIC), Cali, Colombia, March 2010. More »
4 February 2010 (2010-025)
Ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing: Informal consultations with the Co-chairs and regional consultations, 20-21 March 2010, Cali, Colombia. More »

Upcoming Meetings

16 - 18 March 2010, Cali, Colombia
Access and Benefit-sharing: Co-Chairs Informal Inter-regional Consultation (CIIC). More »
20 - 21 March 2010, Cali, Colombia
Access and Benefit-sharing Regional and Inter-regional Consultations.
21 March 2010, Cali, Colombia
Co-Chairs Open-ended Informal Consultation.