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. This included the participation in side events organized by Third World Network on the Nagoya Protocol, the Federation of German Scientists (VDW) on Synthetic Biology, and the ETC Group and Friends of the Earth International on Synthetic Biology; press conferences with Korean and Japanese NGOs, and the editing of the daily NGO newsletter ECO. Statements were made in the sessions of MOP 7 and COP 12.