The Nagoya Protocol and Synthetic Biology Research: A Look at the Potential Impacts

Jay OwenTrendspotting, Earth Systems Science, Sustainability Research Group

The Nagoya Protocol and Synthetic Biology Research: A Look at the Potential Impacts WASHINGTON – The United Nations (UN) is working to ensure that the benefits of genetic resources are shared in a fair and equitable way via the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity.  The Nagoya Protocol …

ENB Vol. 9 No. 574 – Second meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity – Issue #1

kristyNature/Biomimicry

Second MEETING OF THE intergovernmental committee for the nagoya protocol ON ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING to the convention on biological diversity: 2-6 JULY 2012 The second meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol (ICNP) on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of …

The Natural Capital Declaration: A declaration by the financial sector demonstrating our commitment at the Rio+ 20 Earth Summit

kristyGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

The Declaration The Declaration is available in Chinese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. The Natural Capital Declaration A declaration by the financial sector demonstrating our commitment at the Rio+ 20 Earth Summit to work towards integrating Natural Capital considerations into our financial products and services for the …

Rio+20: Making it Happen, Volume 2, Issue 10, 31 May

kristyGreen Prosperity, Global Citizen, Earth Systems Science

Among other events and issues, it also provides an update on the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, announces the NRF call for views on the expected political outcomes of the Rio+20 Conference and touches on World Environment Day (5 June) and World Day to Combat Desertification and …