Press Release

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 to the Convention is due to be finalized in October 2010 at the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention (COP 10) in Nagoya, Japan.

Publication Date
2009-11-16