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).