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
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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
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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 MORETenth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)
20-25 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
19th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
17-21 July 2023
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Meeting of the ITPGRFA Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the MLS
12-14 July 2023
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Further Resumed Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Conference on BBNJ (BBNJ IGC-5)
19-20 June 2023
New York City, US
Resumed Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Conference on BBNJ (BBNJ IGC-5)
20 February - 3 March 2023
New York City, US