Decision COP XIV/2
Scenarios for the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity
2. Invites the scientific and other relevant communities working on scenarios and related assessments to take into account the following issues which are relevant to the development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework:
(g) Scenario analyses on the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources in accordance with the Convention and the Nagoya Protocol, including monetary and non-monetary benefits arising from their non-commercial and commercial utilization, and the potential of benefitsharing to promote the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity;
(j) Technology developments, such as advances in data analytics, digital sequence information on genetic resources, new kinds of living modified organisms and synthetic biology, and their potential positive or negative impacts on the achievement of the three objectives of the Convention as well as on the lifestyles and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities;
3. Requests the Executive Secretary, in collaboration with relevant partners, to facilitate capacity-building activities in accordance with decision XIII/23, especially for developing countries and countries with economies in transition, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, to enable all countries to participate in the development and application of scenarios;
4. Also requests the Executive Secretary, pursuant to decision XIII/22 on the framework for a communication strategy, to promote the use of scenarios as a communication tool for raising public awareness and to foster the participation and involvement of all stakeholders, in particular academia and the scientific community, and to scale up global support for biodiversity concerns, including by engaging celebrities as biodiversity ambassadors from all regions who would to act as biodiversity voices.
- Body
- Conference of the Parties (COP)
- Meeting
- COP-1417 - 29 November, 2018Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
- Elements of decision
- 1 1 Informational
- Subjects
- 5 2 Post 2020 Framework 1 Capacity-building 1 Communication, Education and Public Awareness 1 Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA)
- Decision document
- Scenarios for the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity
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