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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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Nagoya Protocol: Background & Analysis

In a joint effort of civil society partners from both developing and industrialized countries, the Ecoropa members Christine von Weizsäcker and Hartmut Meyer (together with members of TWN, Berne Declaration, EED, Tebtebba) consistently attended and observed the negotiations the led to the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization in 2010.

Ecoropa at the CBD negotiations

In the months leading up to the Eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP11) and the Sixth Meeting of the Carthagena Protocol on Biosafety (MOP6) in India in October 2012, Ecoropa members participated in a number of preparatory meetings including those of the Scientific Body (SBSTTA 15 and 16), the Working Group on the Implementation of the Convention (WGRI 4) as well as in the Second Meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ICNP-2).

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