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#1326932022-01-20
New ´fast track´ Access and Benefit-Sharing Agreement for Costa Rican microbes
The Leibniz Institute DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH and the Costa Rican National Commission for Biodiversity Management (CONAGEBIO) of the Ministry of Environment and Energy recently signed a new “fast track” framework for access and benefit sharing (ABS) of Cos ...
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#1320322021-12-03
Ukraine - Verkhovna Rada ratifies Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources
Some 291 MPs voted in favor of a draft law on ratifying document No.0125, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.
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#1318202021-11-18
New conservation law to promote fair sharing of genetic resources
Biodiversity conservation experts in Rwanda have welcomed the recently gazetted law on biological diversity and wildlife conservation, saying it will play a role in implementing the Nagoya Protocol.
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#1294862021-07-09
The Nagoya Protocol and the UK - are you compliant?
The Nagoya Protocol has been in force in the UK since October 2015 and obliges users of genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources to comply with due diligence requirements before its ‘utilisation’.
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#1277992021-03-23
Indonesia vulnerable to biopiracy: Siregar
Indonesia is among the countries most vulnerable to biopiracy on account of its rich biodiversity, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Mahendra Siregar has said.
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#1271602021-02-18
Brazil: Nagoya Protocol
The Nagoya Protocol is a global agreement, supplementary to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which regulates the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilisation of genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with them among the user and provider countries (p ...
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#1270012021-02-11
Illicit centipede raises thorny question: Should journals have refused to publish a paper about it?
In 2018, a new species of centipede graced the pages of the prominent taxonomy journal Zootaxa. More than 14 centimeters long, with striking teal-colored legs, it lives in the montane and mossy forests of the Philippines. Now, however, the centipede is in a harsh spotlight. The Philippine govern ...
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#1268962021-02-08
Sharing pathogens but not the benefits during pandemics
Just over a year ago, Chinese scientists shared on a public database the first genetic sequence data (GSD) of the virus which causes the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The data was released on GenBank, a partnership of the US, Europe and Japan.
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#1264852020-12-29
Safeguard for our biological resources
AT long last Malaysia has brought into effect the much-awaited law to curb piracy of our biological resources and associated traditional knowledge.The 2017 Access to Biological Resources and Benefit Sharing Act – was brought into effect on Dec 18, 2020 after implementing regulations were approved.
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#1255812020-11-05
Biodiversity governance: A mix of knowledge and forest management for benefit sharing
Forests and their relationship with the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) regime is complex: Forests are closely linked with biodiversity use and provide a myriad of valuable products for commercial as well as research purposes.