The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources opens for signature

(...) After six years of negotiations, the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Nagoya Protocol on 29 October 2010, in Nagoya, Japan. The Protocol builds on the Convention and supports the further implementation of one of its three objectives: the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources. The Protocol provides the means to translate the Convention's objective into reality. (...)

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