News Headline
UN High-Level Meeting In India On Biodiversity Addresses Access And Benefit-Sharing
Source
Intellectual Property Watch
Publication Date
2012-10-15
At the ongoing 11th Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad, the hot topic is funds and how to mobilize it. The mega-conference is taking place in the shadow of a global economic slowdown, and delegates gathered at this southern Indian city are most concerned about how to drum up funds to tackle the world’s shrinking biodiversity – the variety of animal and plant life on earth.