Access and Benefit Sharing in Non-Commercial Biodiversity Research
Bonn, Germany
16-19 November 2008
| Workshop Prospectus PDF, 29 Kb |
Workshop Agenda PDF, 105 Kb |
Participant List PDF, 97 Kb |
Workshop Report PDF, 184 Kb |
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At the Ninth Meeting (May 2008 in Bonn, Germany, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed to develop an International Regime for Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) by 2010. The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) and several national and international science organizations and research projects organized a workshop on ABS in Non-Commercial Biodiversity Research. The workshop was held at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn, Germany, on 17-19 November 2008.
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation),
- Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN),
- International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL),
- European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT),
- Moorea Biocode Project,
- Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN, Paris),
- DIVERSITAS/bioGENESIS, and
- UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.
