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#767072011-02-02
A New Legal Instrument at the Service of Sustainable Development Opens for Signature
Montreal, 2 February 2011 – At a ceremony held today in New York, the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization was opened for signature by Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Addressing the opening ...
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#734092010-09-21
One step further towards the adoption of the Aichi Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing
Montreal, 21 September 2010 – Working late into the night, Governments continued to negotiate the core issues for an international protocol on the provision and use of the genetic resources of the planet. The drafting committee known as the Interregional Negotiating Group concluded its discussi ...
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#717272010-07-19
Enhanced Inter-Agency Partnership for Post-Nagoya Biodiversity Challenges
Montreal, 19 July 2010 – With Governments and their partners actively engaged in finalizing the new biodiversity vision for 2050 and the 2020 biodiversity targets, which will include the international protocol on access and benefit sharing, senior officials of the United Nations Development Pro ...
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#716862010-07-16
Governments Make Major Advances on Global Agreement on Planet’s Genetic Resources
Montreal, 16 July 2010 – Following seven days of intense and complex negotiations, and with the financial support of Japan, the world’s governments have made major breakthroughs on a text of a legally binding protocol on access to, and sharing of, the benefits from the use of the rich genetic re ...
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#714772010-07-09
Governments Meet to Finalize a Legal Instrument on Genetic Resources for Development
Montreal, 9 July 2010 – Governments meet in Montreal, starting this weekend, to settle the details of a new global legal agreement governing the terms for the provision and use of the genetic resources of the planet. The results of these negotiations, to be taken to the Nagoya Biodiversity Summ ...
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#688912010-03-28
The Draft Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing is born in Cali
Cali, Colombia, 28 March 2010 – Participants to a United Nations meeting on genetic resources agreed to a draft protocol on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits from their use as basis for further negotiation, setting the stage for its adoption at the N ...
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#687552010-03-22
Governments Discuss Text of Protocol for the Sharing of Benefits from the Genetic Resources of the Planet
Cali, Colombia, 22 March 2010 – In a sign of tremendous progress, 193 Parties to the Convention and their partners agreed today to use a draft protocol text, crafted through extensive consultations over the last months, to begin their deliberations on access and benefit sharing of the genetic ...
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#686262010-03-18
Talks Begin to Finalize the International Regime on Access and Benefit-Sharing of the Earth’s Genetic Resources
Montreal, 18 March 2010 – After six years of intensive discussions, more than 500 delegates will gather in Cali, Colombia, from 22 to 28 March 2010 to finalize the text of the international regime on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from their use. Th ...
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#683292010-03-09
President Pohamba of Namibia Opens the African Ministerial Conference on Access and Benefit-sharing
Montreal, 9 March 2010. African ministers of the environment and high-level officials are gathered in Windhoek, Namibia, this week to consult on the international regime on access and benefit-sharing (ABS) currently being negotiated under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
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#653022009-11-16
Major Advances toward the Nagoya International Regime on Access and Benefit-Sharing
Montreal, 16 November 2009 – Substantial progress was made toward an International regime on access and benefit-sharing last week by the 527 participants representing the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and partner institutions. An international regime resulting in a protocol ...
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#649882009-11-08
Negotiations on An International Regime on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing to Continue in Montreal
Montreal, 8 November 2009 – In what will possibly be the most important meeting in the history of the Convention’s Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, over 450 participants are expected to gather in Montreal on Monday, 9 November to continue the negotiation of an international regime on ...
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#584182009-04-01
Building a Global Partnership on Access and Benefit-sharing
Montreal, 1 April 2009 - More than 500 participants are set to negotiate the international regime on access and benefit sharing (ABS) at the seventh meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit sharing (WGABS 7), to be held in Paris from 2 to 8 April 2009. This meeting i ...
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#430612008-01-22
Sixth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing Convenes in Geneva
Geneva – 22 January 2008. The sixth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS 6) of the Convention on Biological Diversity opened yesterday at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
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#394422007-10-07
Convention Convenes the Fifth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing
The fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing will be held from 8 to 12 October 2007 at the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal. The Working Group is co-chaired by Mr Fernando Casas form Colombia and Mr Tim. H ...
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#311992007-03-26
Visit to the Secretariat of the two Co-Chairs of the Working Group on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing.
Montreal 26 March 2007. The two Co-Chairs of the Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing paid a visit to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity on 23 March. The visit was a follow-up to the consultations held on 6 September 2006 and provided an opportunity to discuss the ...
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#263632006-10-23
Farmers now guaranteed access to biodiversity and sharing of benefits as major crop gene banks are brought under international treaty.
Montreal 23 October 2006 – An agreement to bring the genebank collections of international agricultural research centres into the framework of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources will help ensure that the world’s farmers have the resources to improve the sustainability of agricul ...
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#189622006-01-17
Promoting biodiversity as a powerful instrument to achieve lasting peace and shared prosperity for all nations of the world.
Montreal, 17 January 2006 – Officials from the 188 members of the Convention on Biological Diversity will gather in the historic city of Grenada, Spain from 30 January to 3 February 2006 to make progress on one of the three pillars of the Convention on Biological Diversity, aimed at promoting ac ...
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#90172005-02-01
Negotiations begin on international regime for access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing
Representatives from the 188 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity will start negotiating a global regime on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing at a one-week meeting in Bangkok from 14 to 18 February.