The Convention on Biological Diversity will discuss the issue of biopiracy and equitable benefit sharing when it resumes for another meeting on 18-21 September in Montreal.
A series of briefings examining a number of US court cases on the legality of the authorisation of GM crops, while exposing how regulators have disregard the law and the precautionary principle.
Governments that are Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity finally started to negotiate the text of a draft protocol on access and benefit sharing on 10 July 2010.
A TWN report on the outcomes of the meeting of the Friends of the Co-Chairs on Liability and Redress in the Context of the Bioafety Protocol in Kuala Lumpur in June 2010.
A TWN briefing on the concept of imminent threat of damage, an issue under negotiations on Liability and Redress in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.