Side Event

Launch of UNU-IAS and UNEP Publication on 'Learning from the Practioners: Benefit Sharing principles from enterprising communities' in collaboration with the Equator Initiative

Organizer
United Nations University-Institute of Advanced Studies

Date and Time
13 November 2009 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Eighth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 8)

The event will launch and present perspectives from 14 community partners of the Equator Initiative, who are engaged in biodiversity based enterprises. The research views such community enterprises as localized bio-prospecting activities, and analysed principles followed by the communities to share benefits resulting from the enterprises. It further analyzes the implications of the local principles and practices to their well-being, and attempts to extract lessons from this in an ABS context.