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Capacity-building Workshop on Access and Benefit-sharing

4 - 5 June 2011, Montreal, Canada

Capacity-building Workshop on Access and Benefit-sharing

30 June - 1 July 2012, New Delhi, India

Capacity-building Workshop on Access and Benefit-sharing

29 - 30 October 2011, Montreal, Canada

Capacity-building Workshop on the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-house

11 December 2022, Montreal, Canada

Capacity-building for access and benefit-sharing

Reference: SCBD/SEL/VN/VP/54834 (2006-040)
To: CBD National Focal Points and ABS National Focal Points

Parties are invited to make available any new information regarding capacity-building projects as soon as possible but no later than 31 December 2006 by filling out the data entry form in Annex 1. Information regarding future projects should also be provided to the Secretariat as it becomes ava ...

Capacity-building for access and benefit-sharing

Reference: SCBD/SEL/VN/VP/54835 (2006-050)
To: International organizations, indigenous and local community representatives and all relevant stakeholders

International organizations, indigenous and local communities and all relevant stakeholders are invited to make available any new information regarding capacity-building projects as soon as possible but no later than 31 December 2006 by filling out the data entry form in Annex 1. Information re ...

Capacity-building workshop on the Access and Benefit-Sharing Clearing-House

12 - 13 October 2014, Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea

Capacity-building workshop on the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House, Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea – 23 February 2014

Reference: SCBD/ABS/SBG/BG/jh/83000 (2013-118)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ICNP Focal Points, indigenous and local community organizations, international organizations, and relevant stakeholders

Change of venue of the COP 13 to the Convention on Biological Diversity, COP-MOP 8 to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and COP-MOP 2 to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

Reference: SCBD/RMCS/CS/PT/84810 (2015-078)
To: CBD, CPB and ABS Focal Points and International Organizations

Clarifying the impact of the Nagoya Protocol on the top innovation processes related to botanical extracts and natural ingredients

Initial results of a study to determine which innovation processes related to botanical extracts and ingredients fall within the scope of the Nagoya Protocol and assess the potential impact on current business models and their effect on delivering the conservation and livelihood goals of the Pr ...

Closing Remarks by Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, at the Twelfth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the First Meeting of the Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol, Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, 17 October 2014

Closing date for signature of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/Sg/78678 (2012-008)
To: CBD Focal Points and ICNP Focal Points

Closing statement by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the Second Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, 2 November 2007

Closing statement by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the Second Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, 2 November 2007

Closing statement of Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Kunming, China, 15 October 2021

Closing statement of Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Kunming, China, 15 October 2021

Co-Chairs Informal Interregional Consultations (CIIC) and Ninth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing: Co-Chairs' Guidance Note

Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/SGa/71094 (2010-049)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, international organizations, indigenous and local community organizations and stakeholders

With reference to the Co-Chairs Informal Interregional Consultations (CIIC) and to the ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WGABS-9), the Secretariat is pleased to circulate the attached document entitled "Co-Chairs' Guidance Note".

Co-Chairs Informal Meeting on Capacity Development for Access and Benefit-sharing 22 January 2008, Geneva, Switzerland

Reference: SCBD/SEL/VN/GD/61422 (2007-167)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that, at the occasion of the sixth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, the Co-chairs of the Working Group are convening an informal meeting on capacity development for access and benefit-sharing. The meeting will be held on Tu ...

Co-Chairs Open-ended Informal Consultation

21 - 22 March 2010, Cali, Colombia

Codes of Conduct, Best Practices and Standards: Modalities for evaluation and recognition using the examples of the; ABS Management Tool, Culture Collection Standard and the International Barcode of Life

This event will build on the 2013 Tokyo Informal meeting on the implementation of Protocol Articles 19 & 20 and explore possible methodologies for the evaluation and recognition Guidelines, Codes of Conduct and best practices using three practical examples.

Article 20

Codes of Conduct, Guidelines and Best Practices and/or Standards

Collaborating to build capacity for two new treaties on genetic resources

Montreal, 6 June 2011. Over the past weekend, on 4 and 5 June, the secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture collaborated to deliver a two-day capacity-building workshop that will help Government ...

Colombia will host the next United Nations Biodiversity Conference

Colombia will host the next United Nations Biodiversity Conference

Common pools of genetic resources: A solution for effective and fair ABS?

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has widely been understood as arranging access to genetic resources and benefit sharing in the form of bilateral exchanges between providers and users. This arrangement has often proved to lack efficiency and distributional justice. Based on a reading ...

Communique: Mauritania Becomes 23rd Signatory to the Two New Biodiversity Treaties

Communiqué: Antigua and Barbuda becomes the first Caribbean island country to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization

Communiqué: Argentina becomes sixty-seventh signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing

Communiqué: Australia becomes 76th signatory of the Nagoya Protocol

Communiqué: Bangladesh becomes the forty-second signatory to the Nagoya Protocol

Communiqué: Costa Rica becomes the 38th Signatory of the Nagoya Protocol

Communiqué: East African Legislative Assembly prepares resolution on Nagoya Protocol

Communiqué: GEF Approves New Project to Support Early Entry into Force of the Nagoya Protocol.

Communiqué: Gabon Signs the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization

Communiqué: Ghana Becomes 24th Country to Sign International Treaty on Genetic Resources

Communiqué: International symposium to be held to share experiences and support effective implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on Genetic Resources

Communiqué: Panama and Peru Sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources.

Communiqué: President Pohamba of Namibia Opens the African Ministerial Conference on Access and Benefit-sharing.

Communiqué: Somalia becomes seventy-third signatory of the Nagoya Protocol

Communiqué: Sudan Becomes the 11th Country to Sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources.

Communiqué: The Federated States of Micronesia becomes seventy-fifth signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

Communiqué: Vanuatu becomes sixty-eighth signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing

Community-Based Natural Resources Management in Namibia and the role and potential of equitable access and benefit sharing

The side event will give an overview of Namibia's Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) Programme and how the devolution of legal rights over elements of biodiversity and the provision of technical support has empowered communities to conserve and sustainably utilize their natural ...

Comoros, Mongolia and the Syrian Arab Republic ratify Nagoya Protocol

Montreal, 6 June 2013 – Comoros, Mongolia and the Syrian Arab Republic became the most recent countries to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Compendium of Side Event

Reference: SCBD/OMG/DA/DN/fd/55064 (2006-058)
To: CBD National Focal Points

I have the pleasure to inform you that the compilation of side events held during the Fourth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Inter-sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions and the Fourth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, held in ...

Article 15

Compliance with Domestic Legislation or Regulatory Requirements on Access and Benefit-Sharing

Article 18

Compliance with Mutually Agreed Terms

Composition of Expert Meeting on cooperative procedures and institutional mechanisms to promote compliance with the Protocol and to address cases of non-compliance, Montreal, Canada, 28 February -1 March 2012

Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/AS /78523 (2012-003)
To: CBD Focal Points, ICNP Focal Points, International Organizations, indigenous and local community organizations and relevant stakeholders

Composition of Expert Meeting on the Modalities of Operation of the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House, Montreal, Canada, 11-14 April 2011

Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/SG/75308 (2011-055)
To: CBD Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, ICNP Focal Points, International organizations, indigenous and local community organizations and relevant stakeholders

In accordance with Decision X/1, paragraph 12 and Annex II, the Open-ended Ad-hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing will consider the modalities of operation of the ABS Clearing-House, including reports on its activities, at its first meeting, from ...

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/VN/KG/NH/86630 (2017-109)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, international organizations, relevant stakeholders