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Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy

… A Community Approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy A Community Approach to Ensuring … that have to be included in order for a benefit-sharing agreement to qualify as having MAT. • Benefit-Sharing … the CBD. Specifically relating to ABS, the following four voluntary guidelines and management tools were developed: 1 . …
21 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

… IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 83 A n Explanatory G … was adopted in Nagoya, Japan. Being a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity it is one … stakeholders criticizing them as being incomplete, only voluntary, focusing too much on the user side, and not taking …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Document - ABS information kit

… as medicines and cosmetics, as well as agricultural and environmental practices and techniques. However, like many … framework. • Mutually agreed terms (MAT): is an agreement reached between the providers of genetic resources … and benefit-sharing? The Bonn Guidelines How do these voluntary guidelines assist with the implementation of the …
21 Jun 2026 Document

Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document

… 1.1 The global context 10 1.2 Culture in the multilateral environmental agreements 12 1.3 Cultural landscapes and … in 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar, as a multi- lateral agreement focusing on wetland ecosystems and especially the … of sustain- able traditional wetland products, in a voluntary and non-discriminatory manner (replaces guiding …
21 Jun 2026 Document

The Role of Indigenous and Local Communities

… Site: UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION PORTAL ON MULTILATERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS Course:Introductory Course to the … Group has been the adoption in 2004 of the Akwé Kon Voluntary Guidelines for the Conduct of Cultural, Environmental and Social Impact Assessment regarding …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… diversity is more important for farming than any other environmental factor, because it enables adaptation to … to a fund in recognition of these rights should not be voluntary. Practically speaking, a voluntary fund is a fund … an appropriate sui generis system, in line with the TRIPS Agreement. Such an approach could incorporate the ‘farmers’ …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… Treaty is the first legally binding international agreement to recognize the contribution of local and … of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 57. Pp. 66-78 3 For … research and breeding. • these funds are complemented with voluntary contributions from countries, international …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… (WTO), and are thus obliged to implement the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property … much more. A financial mechanism for 5 major international environmental conventions: The Minamata Convention on … indicators for food security; indigenous food systems; and voluntary guidelines on the governance of tenure. vi. The …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity