Side Event

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, TRADE AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: A SOUTH - SOUTH EXCHANGE

Organizer
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development

Date and Time
19 October 2010 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10)

Capitalising on lessons learned from joint African and Latin American initiatives on promoting the pro-poor and pro-biodiversity commercialisation of biological and genetic resources, this session will highlight emerging good practices and pinpoint streams of action as to strengthen mutual supportiveness of international policies and regimes for biodiversity protection and economic development. Experts and project partners of ICTSD, GTZ and the UNCTAD-UNEP Capacity Building Task Force on Biotrade will make cutting edge inputs on pertinent issues at the intersection of trade, IP and biodiversity, supported by fresh publications and documentation