Access to Genetic Resources & Benefit-sharing
This category is attached to news and events related to the fair and equitable sharing of and access to genetic resources, as well as the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Nagoya Protocol and other processes and mechanisms pertaining to access and benefit sharing (ABS). SDG target 15.6 calls for promoting “fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed.”
news
SEE MOREWorking Group to Revise ABS System Agrees on Way Forward
Working Group to Revise ABS System Agrees on Way F...
In “a Triumph for Multilateralism,” Governments Adopt High Seas Treaty
In “a Triumph for Multilateralism,” Government...
guest articles
SEE MORESustainable Use of Wild Species is Key to Achieve Sustainable Development
Fine-tuning Access and Benefit-sharing Measures to Achieve SDG 2
Convention on Biological Diversity: Overcoming Research Impediments
Access and Benefit-Sharing: SDG Commitment and Challenge for the Food and Agriculture Sector
policy briefs
SEE MORE2023: Five Areas to Target Through Resolve, Determination, and Hope
Stakeholders Outline Options for Trade and Environment Agenda
Re-imagining the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework in the COVID-19 Era
Why Biodiversity Matters: Mapping the Linkages between Biodiversity and the SDGs
Events
SEE MORE20th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
24-28 March 2025
Roma, Lazio, Italy
Second Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources
12-16 August 2024
TBA
Tenth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)
20-24 November 2023
Rome, Lazio, Italy
First meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources
14-18 November 2023
Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
Resumed Second Part of the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 15)
19-20 October 2023
Nairobi, Kenya
32nd Session of the North American Forest Commission
25-27 September 2023
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada