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‘Committed to ensuring biosafety’

Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque yesterday said Bangladesh is committed to ensure biosafety as an adaptor of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity. “We have already adapted and enacted the ‘Biosafety Rules of Bangladesh, 2012’ and ‘Biosafety Guidelin ...

Workshop on Raising Awareness of Biotechnology and Bioindustry Achievements, Prospects and Challenges in Developing Countries

10 - 11 July 2006, Geneva, Switzerland

Workshop on Introduction to Biosafety and Risk Assessment for the Environmental Release of GMOs: Theoretical Approach and Scientific Background

19 - 23 April 2004, Trieste, Italy

Workshop on "Theoretical Approaches and their Practical Application in the Risk Assessment for the Deliberate Release of Genetically Modified Plants"

5 - 15 October 2009, Ca'Tron di Roncade, Italy

Workshop of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms

25 - 27 November 2013, Ispra, Italy

Why Seed Companies Fear México

Last month México’s Supreme Court provided hope for biodiversity, especially in the Global South, while flaming fear for seed companies. In a historic step, it ruled for corn advocates and against genetically modified (GMO) corn. The decision was a momentous act in country where maíz (corn) carr ...

What is GMO?

Manufacturers of GMO products, including foods, genetically modify organisms to improve the product or gain a commercial advantage. For example, GMO plants may be easier to grow in large quantities, or they may produce more fruit. GMO meat from genetically modified animals may taste better or di ...

WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

29 - 30 June 2005, Geneva, Switzerland

V Congreso Nacional de Biotecnología Agropecuaria y Forestal

24 - 27 August 2004, Chapingo, Mexico

Uso Sustenable de la Biotecnologia (ASDMAS)

11 - 12 September 2008, Tingo Maria, Peru

Unlocking the biochemical treasure chest within microbes

A new genetic engineering tool will help open the floodgates of microbial metabolite applications.

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/2/INF/16

UNEP international technical guidelines for safety in biotechnology

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/2/6

Ways and Means to Promote and Facilitate Access to, and Transfer and Development of Technology, Including Biotechnology

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/18/INF/4

New and Emerging Issues Relating to the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity - Possible Gaps and Overlaps with the Applicable Provisions of the Convention, Its Protocols and Other Relevant Agreements Related to Components, Organisms and Products Resulting from Synthetic Biology Techn ...

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/18/INF/3

New and Emerging Issues Relating to the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity - Potential Positive and Negative Impacts of Components, Organisms and Products Resulting from Synthetic Biology Techniques on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/18/10

New and Emerging Issues: Synthetic Biology

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/INF/45

Cooperation with Other Organizations, Conventions and Initiatives - Report on the activities of the United Nations Environment Programme in the area of biological diversity and biosafety

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/INF/39

Interim Arrangements for the Allocation of Funding for Facilitating Participation of Parties in the Convention Process and Its Biosafty ProtocoL

UNEP/CBD/COP/8/INF/28

Report on the Activities of the United Nations Environment Programme in the Area of Biological Diversity and Biosafety

UNEP/CBD/COP/3/28

Item 17 of the Provisional Agenda <br> UNEP International Technical Guidelines for Safety in Biotechnology

UNEP/CBD/COP/12/INF/12

Possible Gaps and Overlaps with the Applicable Provisions of the Convention, its Protocols and other Relevant Agreements Related to Components, Organisms and Products Resulting from Synthetic Biology Techniques

UNEP/CBD/COP/12/INF/11

Potential Positive and Negative Impacts of Components, Organisms and Products Resulting from Synthetic Biology Techniques on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity, and Associated Social, Economic and Cultural Considerations

UNEP/CBD/COP/12/20

Synthetic Biology: Updated Reports

UNEP/CBD/COP/10/INF/32

Other Matters: Report on the activities of the United Nations Environment Programme in the area of biodiversity and biosafety

UNEP/CBD/BSRWCB/CAR/1/2

Report of the Workshop

UNEP/CBD/BS/CM-ET/3/INF/2

Biosafety Education Relevant to Genetically-Engineered Crops for Academic and Non-Academic Stakeholders in East Africa

UNEP-GEF Sub-Regional Workshop for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on Development of Regulatory Regime & Administrative Systems for National Biosafety Frameworks

11 - 14 May 2004, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

UNEP-GEF Sub-Regional Workshop for Latin America on Development of Regulatory Regime & Administrative Systems for National Biosafety Frameworks

25 - 28 November 2003, Santiago, Chile

UNEP-GEF Sub-Regional Workshop for Francophone Africa on Development of Regulatory Regime & Administrative Systems for National Biosafety Frameworks

20 - 23 April 2004, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Técnicas Biotecnológicas aplicados a mejoramiento genético de plantas

13 - 15 October 2004, Lima, Peru

Twelfth meeting of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Biosafety Clearing-House

15 - 16 May 2023, Montreal, Canada

Transformación Genética del Plásmodo pGLO y Purificación de la Proteína GFP

18 - 20 November 2004, Lima, Peru

Training Course on Biosafety and GMO Detection

9 - 20 November 2008, Giza, Egypt

Training Course on "The Analysis of Agricultural Products for the Presence of Genetically Modified Organisms"

10 - 12 May 2009, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Time for Technology Assesment? Creating precautionary governance in a time of rapid technological change.

From the rise of Synthetic Biology and new nanotechnologies to the introduction of climate-ready crops and next generation biofuels, for SBSTTA to fulfill its mandate requires a capacity for continual monitoring, reflection and foresight with regard to new technologies. In its latest foresight r ...

Third Session of the Intergovernmental Working Group for the Elaboration of a Set of Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security

5 - 9 July 2004, Rome, Italy

Third International Genetically Modified Food Conference - Biofuels

18 - 19 November 2008, Amman, Jordan

Third Forum of the Biotechnology & Governance Program

3 June 2003, Paris, France

Theoretical and Practical Course on "Developments in Biosciences for Enhanced Food and Environmental Biosafety"

18 - 30 August 2009, Dar Es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

The world is too dry and hungry to snub genetically modified crops, tech CEO says

A world without enough food is just around the corner and can only be averted if humans forget their qualms about eating genetically modified crops.

The Second International Conference on Implications of GM Crop Cultivation at Large Spatial Scales

25 - 26 March 2010, Bremen, Germany

The Role of Biotechnology for the Characterisation and Conservation of Crop, Forestry, Animal and Fishery Genetic Resources

5 - 7 March 2005, Turin, Italy

The Environmental Release of LMOs in Tropical Areas: Risks Analysis and Risk Assessment

7 - 12 August 2005, Lima, Peru

The 7th Session of the Interim Commission for Phytosanitary Measures

4 - 8 April 2005, Rome, Italy

The 7th International Conference on Genetically Modified Food

6 - 7 May 2013, Amman, Jordan

Tenth meeting of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Biosafety Clearing-House

11 - 12 April 2016, Ispra, Italy

Synthetic Biology and next generation biofuels

As artificial life forms are being created in laboratories for various industrial uses, the whole concept of biological diversity and its protection is being challenged. The large-scale implementation of the manipulation of the fundamental building blocks of life will present new challenges for ...

Symposium on Art. 13, Maize and Biodiversity: The effects of Transgenic Maize in Mexico

11 - 12 March 2004, Oaxaca, Mexico

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira De Souza Dias, Executive Secretary, Convention On Biological Diversity at the Opening of the Sixth Asian Biotechnology and Development Conference, Hyderabad, India, 6 October 2012

Sixth meeting of the Compliance Committee under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

4 - 6 November 2009, Montreal, Canada