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Seminar on „Genetic Engineering reloaded"

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12/2018

Ricarda Steinbrecher and Christine von Weizsäcker participated it the civil society seminar „Genetic Engineering reloaded: Gene Gentechologies and, Big Data – Risks and Regulation Requirements“ in Berlin, organized by fdcl and Forum Umwelit und Entwicklung. Ricarda Steinbrecher gave a keynote on „New Genetic Engineering Techniques“, and Christine von Weizsäcker gave a keynote on „Digital Sequence Information – Nagoya Protocol on the Siding?“

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COP14, MOP9 and MOP3: Participation and side events

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11/2018

Christine von Weizsäcker, Antje Lorch, Helena Paul and Ricarda Steinbrecher participated in the 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP14), 9th Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and the 3rd Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits arising from their Utilization (MOP3) in Sharm El Sheik from 15 to 29 November.

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CBD COP 13

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12/2016

Christine von Weizsäcker, Helena Paul, Antje Lorch and Ricarda Steinbrecher participated in the Thirteens Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, (COP 13), the Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (MOP 8) and the Second Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (MOP 2) in Cancun, Mexico.

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CBD COP 12, Cartagena Protocol MOP7 and Nagoya Protocol MOP1

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10/2014

Ricarda Steinbrecher, Helena Paul, Antje Lorch, Christine von Weizsäcker participated in the CBD meetings from 26 September till 19 October in Korea: the 7th Meetings of the Parties of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety followed by the 12th Conference of the Parties of the CDB of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the 1st Meeting of the Parties of the Nagoya Protocol.

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Participation in the Third Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on the Nagoya Protocol, Korea

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02/2014

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.

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CBD Meetings in Korea

Several Ecoropa members are attending the CBD meetings in Korea: starting with MOP7 of the Cartagena Protocol, followed by COP12 of the Biodiversity Convention, and - paralell with it - the first MOP of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing, which comes into force right in the middel of the meetings on 12 October.
The Ecoropa members Christine von Weizsäcker, Ricarda Steinbrecher, Antje Lorch, Helena Paul and Hartmut Meyer - in different functions - work on a range of issues during the meeting as well as edit the daily NGO newsletter ECO.

Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing

"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 is an international agreement which aims at sharing the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources in a fair and equitable way, including by appropriate access to genetic resources and by appropriate transfer of relevant technologies, taking into account all rights over those resources and to technologies, and by appropriate funding, thereby contributing to the conservation of biological diversity

Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (ING-9)

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10/2010

Resumed Ninth Meeting of the Interregional NegotiatingGroup (ING) of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, which finally resulted in the adoption of the 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. (HM, FM, AL, HP, CvW)

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UN negotiations on Access and Benefit-sharing for Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledege

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03/2010

Participation in the UN-negotiations on Access and Benefit-Sharing for Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: 9th Meeting of the Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing in Cali, Columbia including the Co-Chairs Interregional Consultations(CCIC), CBD Alliance Strategy meeting for Civil Society Organisations, and the Co-Chairs Informal Consultations: Meeting with Women's representatives and Civil Society organisations.

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Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits arising from their Utilisation

Background and Analysis
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12/2013
Hartmut Meyer with Joji Carino, Chee Yoke Ling, Michael Frein, Francois Meyenborg and Christine von Weizsäcker

Edited by Edward Hammond and Chee Yoke Ling.
Published by Berne Declaration, Bread for the World, Ecoropa, Tebtebba and Third World Network.

The fight against biopiracy and its injustice was the main impetus for the push to have an international treaty to be developed under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The Convention's third objective of fair and equitable sharing of the benefits from the utilization of genetic resources is itself the result of tough negotiation in the early 1990s when the misappropriation, even theft, of the resources of developing countries and of indigenous peoples and local communities gained international attention.

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