The Ecoropa-Team consisting of Francois Meienberg, Hartmut Meyer, Ricarda Steinbrecher, Antje Lorch and Christine von Weizsäcker had followed the negotiations of the Nagoya Protocol. The text was finalized at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya in 2010, but there were many gaps allowing different interpretations. Christine von Weizsäcker closely folled these intermediate negotiations which were crucial for the final outcome at the Conference of the Parties in October 2014.