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The IPPC will outline its pest risk analysis framework, including risk assessment and management, and describe how it can be used to evaluate the plant pest risk of living modified organisms.
Brief explanation of the most important discussions related to the interrelationships between Intellectual Property Rights and Biotechnology, particularly in certain agro products and technological elements.
A screening of 20 minute DVD followed by panel and presentation by attendees
A screening of 20 minute DVD followed by panel and presentation by attendees
Conference and debates about the role of organized civil society (universities, NGOs,etc) in international negotiation and treaty celebration- in general and the case of CBD/Cartagena Protocol/COPs and MOPs)
This side event draws on the UNU-IAS report "Trading Precaution: The Precautionary Principle and the WTO". This report examines the debate on the evolution of the precautionary principle in the context of the WTO. It clarifies proposals to enhance the incorporation of this principle in the rules ...
The side event will briefly described the elements under consideration for the elaboration of a biosafety strategy as requested by the GEF Council. It will then invite exchange of views with interested Parties and other stakeholders.
V-GURTs (Terminator technology) as a biological containment tool?
Panel- speakers will address the specifics of the ruling, the reactions of governments/industry/civil society/ and offer analyses of courses of action under the Protocol and othet international agreements.
L'objectif de cette presentation est de montrer l'état d'avancement de la mise en oeuvre du protocole en Afrique de l'ouest, particulièrement au Burkina.
The idea is to explain the potential regulatory challenges related to the Cartagena Protocol implementation based on the experiences of countries who have finished Phase I of the UNEP-GEF project in order to deal with cross-cutting issues and challenges that could interest countries that are sti ...
At MOP-3, Parties to the Cartagena Protocol will again be under pressure to finalise the negotiations on documentation requirements for LMO shipments. Underlying these negotiations are important trade interests that favour unhindered flows of agricultural goods, consumer demand for choice, and c ...
Could the potential applications of biotechnology in agriculture, industry, medicine, environmental protection and resource conservation help solve the problems of developing economies? This side event focuses on findings of a series of UNU-IAS reports by Dr Albert Sasson*, UNU-IAS Visiting Pro ...
The Centre for Integrated Research in Biosafety (INBI), formerly known as NZIGE, is a research centre of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is an independent and transdisciplinary Centre engaged in assessing whether and how various products of biotechnology may pose ri ...
Liability in the Biosafety Protocol has become a very narrow concept. There is an urgent need to address the social and environmental impacts of GM crops that are being felt throughout Latin America. We will present testimonies of the victims of GM crop expansion, from Paraguay and Argentina. ...
The briefing will discuss the results of the evaluation of GEF support for biosafety activities conducted by the GEF independent Office of Evaluation.
A presentation of a new approach - a strategic collaboration among five countries in Latin America - to develop country capacity to address environmental and feed/food safety and socio-economic impact assessment of transgenic crops. The proposal and structure of the project (until in the pre-a ...
Tenemos uma exposição de alto nível demonstrando a importância do surgimento de novos paradigmas sustentáveis no desenvolvimiento de uma nova agricultura e bioconstrução, e sua relação intima com uma nova nutrição vital bio-hemisférica e uma medicina preventiva e mais holistica.
We plan to have a reception with a number of display tables set up with information and we will serve food and drinks (similar to what we did at COP/MOP-3 in Montreal) so would appreciate it if we could hold this in a public area easily accessible.
The purpose is to demonstrate current effective actions/programmes and future plans/projects of the brazilian industry in order to protect and regenerate the brazilian biodiversity
This side event will focus on some of the key issues that will be discussed in COP-MOP 3 (details to be confirmed later)
Growers from around the world will lead a discussion about the implications of agricultural biotechnology on their farms, families, and communities.
The event will focus on describing GEF support for biosafety project implementation at the national level, and experience gained on these efforts to date.
Presentation of bilateral and regional acitvities