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.

Side-Event at COP9 on Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) – Consent or Consultation? chaired by Christine von Weizsäcker; organized by the International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests (IAITPTF) and MISEREOR, Aachen

Meeting of the Study Group on Global Future of the German Society for International Politics in Berlin, Germany, with a presentation by Christine von Weizsäcker on Access and Benefit-Sharing, ABS and Intellectual Property Rights

In participation in the the UNEP/IUCN ABS-Module Draft discussion with invited participants in Montreal, Canada, organized by the United Nations Environment Programme and IUCN

Participation in the Fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS WG 5) in Montreal, Canada

Strategy Meeting and Workshop on EU Draft Directive implementing the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing in Brussels, Belgium organized by Sandrine Bélier, Rapporteur of Environment Committee of the European-Parliament

Second Meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on ABS (ICNP-2) in New Delhi, India.

International editorial consultation on the joint book on the negotiations of the Nagoya-Protocol on ABS with Chee Yoke Ling , Joji Carino, Francois Meienberg, Michael Frein, Hartmut Meyer, Flurina Doppler and Christine von Weizsäcker, in Filsbach, Switzerland, organized by the Berne Declaration and the EED

First Meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits arising from their Utilization (ICNP 1), in Montreal, Canada (CvW)

International ABS Strategy Meeting, Preparation of our ABS-Publikation (Chee Yoke Ling (TWN), Joji Carino (IIFB), Hartmut Meyer (ENSSER, EED, Ecoropa), Michael Frein (EED), Francois Meienberg (Berne Declaration, Ecoropa), CvW (Ecoropa) in Berlin, Germany