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.
In this report, they turn to some of the conflicts, unresolved concepts, the frameworks and asymmetries that have arisen from the compromises struck during the negotiations, and that will play a role in the future negotiations of the Nagoya Protocal and in its national and regional implementations. They all have to do with justice - historical, current and future. Access and Benefit Sharing is about justice.
The full report is available for download.