News Headline
EU Parliament gives Nagoya Protocol green light
Source
ICTSD
Publication Date
2014-03-19
The European Parliament has given its overwhelming consent - with 647 votes in favour - for the EU to be legally bound to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which was signed by world leaders in the Japanese city in 2010.