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Side Event #6247

Status: Request Submitted

Date Thursday
2024.10.31 @ 13:20
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Room Farallones - Youth meeting room
Plaza One
Capacity: 90 people
Conference SBI-05 / COP-16 / CP-MOP-11 / NP-MOP-05
Meetings(s)
CP-MOP-11
Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Title Promoting the Joint CBD/Aarhus Convention Pocket Guide on Promoting Effective Access to Information and Public Participation regarding Living Modified Organisms/Genetically Modified Organisms (LMOs)
Hosts
CBD | UNECE |
Topics
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Agricultural Biodiversity
Handling of Biotechnology
Biosafety and Biotechnology
 

 

The side event will highlight different aspects from countries implementation on access to information and public participation regarding LMOs. It will also highlight the pocket guide as an informal tool that seeks to help Governments and stakeholders strengthen their capacities for effective access to information and public participation in decision-making processes regarding LMOs/GMOs. The tool aims to support efforts to implement article 23 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Cartagena Protocol) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention), including its amendment on public participation in decisions on the deliberate release into the environment and placing on the market of genetically modified organisms (GMO amendment).

The online participation for the side event is also available. Please click the link in the other tab.

A recording of the side event will also be made available on the Protocol’s website. 

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Joint CBD/Aarhus Convention Pocket Guide on Promoting Effective Access to Information and Public Participation regarding Living Modified Organisms/Genetically Modified Organisms (LMOs)


The Pocket guide as an informal tool that seeks to help Governments and stakeholders strengthen their capacities for effective access to information and public participation in decision-making processes regarding LMOs/GMOs. The tool aims to support efforts to implement article 23 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Cartagena Protocol) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention).

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Side-event Programme


6247-Programme-side-event.docx

 

Side-event presentation - Albania


6247-Albania_presentation.pdf

 

Side-event presentation - Burkina Faso


6247-Burkina-Faso_presentation.pdf

 

Side-event presentation - Indonesia


6247-Indonesia_presentation.pdf

 

Side-event presentation - Norway


6247-Norway_presentation.pdf

 

Side-event presentation - SCBD Pocket Guide


6247-SCBD_presentation_pocket-guide.pdf

 

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Recording of the side-event is available at the following link:


https://www.youtube.com/embed/qINnjOp67EU

 

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