Side Event
NEW APPROACHES FOR BENEFIT SHARING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGIME ON ABS
Organizer
Peruvian Society for Environmental Law, International Development Research Centre
Date and Time
21 October 2010 13:15 - 14:45
Meeting
Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10)
This side-event will discuss alternatives and options to secure benefit sharing from access to genetic resources based on new developments in science and technology, including new taxonomic tools (iBOL), due consideration to the informational nature of genetic resources and the implication of this, and how benefits (both monetary and non monetary) can materialize on the basis of true facilitated acces and effective benefit distribution.