Side Event

Next Steps for the ABS International Regime

Organizer
Evenet combined Third World Network and ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen), Lancaster University, UK

Date and Time
4 April 2009 18:15 - 19:45

Meeting
Seventh meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WGABS 7)

The panel will highlight and discuss the following issues: new cases of potential biopiracy; scope and definitions of the International Regime; implications of a sectoral approach (including an update on the WHO negotiations on influenza virus and benefit sharing and the link with the CBD ABS negotiations); traditional knowledge in the international regime.