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Seventh meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended
Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing of
the Convention on Biological Diversity
2 - 8 April 2009 | Paris, France
Highlights for Thursday, 2 April 2009
Delegates to the seventh meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) met in plenary throughout the day. In the morning, they heard statements and reports, addressed organizational matters and initiated discussions on operational text on the objective of the international regime. An afternoon plenary addressed scope and compliance. Regional consultations were held in the afternoon and evening.
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Bakary Kante, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, Timothy Hodges (Canada), ABS Working Group Co-Chair, Fernando Casas (Colombia), ABS Working Group Co-Chair, Jochen Flasbarth, German Ministry of Environment and Representative of the COP9 President and Walter Erdelen, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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Timothy Hodges (Canada), ABS Working Group Co-Chair, Fernando Casas (Colombia), ABS Working Group Co-Chair and Olivier Jalbert, CBD Secretariat |
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Related Links
CBD Secretariat
Meeting documents
Provisional Agenda
Annotated Provisional Agenda
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Sixth meeting of the Ad-hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS 6),
21-25 January 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
IISD RS coverage of the Fifth meeting of the Ad-hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS 5),
8-12 October 2007, Montreal, Canada
IISD RS coverage of the CBD COP 9, 19-30 May 2008, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS coverage of the CBD COP 8, 20-31 March 2006, Curitiba, Brazil
IISD RS biodiversity and wildlife page
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