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Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Schweizerische … to meet this increasing demand, while relying on a natural resource base that is about to reach its limits. Plant … from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Introduction to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits

… Course to the International Legal Framework on Marine Pollution Book: Book - Unit 1 – Introduction … 1. The oceans 2. Maritime Zones 3. Why protect the marine environment from pollution? 4. Sources of marine … of millions of people. Diverse marine organisms and their genetic resources could hold cures for many of the ailments …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual

… 22/06/12 10:48 Page2 About the World Heritage Resource Manual Series Since the World Heritage Convention … Conservation and Sustainable Use, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Australia • Guy Debonnet, Programme … Black rhino Population size Productivity (recruitment) Genetic diversity C o n t e n t s � M an ag in g N at ur al W …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Policy Brief - Bioscience at a Crossroads: Implementing the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing in a Time of Scientific Technological and Industry Chang

… and models, changed the nature of the demand for genetic resources and the ways in which they were used. The … recognized that distinctions between organisms – plant, marine, invertebrate, microbial – are not always clear-cut. … compounds once considered to be products of a plant or marine organism have been shown to be produced in conjunction …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

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

… 79 ARTICLE 6 ACCESS TO GENETIC RESOURCES … Working De!nitions and Sectoral Approaches GR genetic resource ICG Informal Consultative Group ICNP … regional and global action and cooperation in the marine sector.”32 UNCLOS foresees different maritime zones … and the subsoil thereof and exercises jurisdiction over marine scienti!c research and for the protection of the …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Case Study - Opportunities provided by the Nagoya Protocol in specific cases of the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and agricultural sector

… Bahamas The Bahamas (provider): Salinispora tropica is a marine actinomycete bacteria, until now exclusively found in … The University of California filed patents on the genetic resource and potential medicinal uses of the biomolecule. …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Introduction to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

… Course to the International Legal Framework on Marine Biodiversity Book: Book - Unit 1 - Introduction … activities do not necessarily have to be related to resource exploitation, for example by oil rigs, but could … or uses of marine living organisms, parts thereof or their genetic material. While some regard it as marine scientific …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Introductory Course to Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… Course to the International Legal Framework on Marine Biodiversity Book: Book - Unit 1 - Introduction … activities do not necessarily have to be related to resource exploitation, for example by oil rigs, but could … or uses of marine living organisms, parts thereof or their genetic material. While some regard it as marine scientific …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Introduction to the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage

… Course to the International Legal Framework on Marine Biodiversity Book: Book - Unit 1 - Introduction … activities do not necessarily have to be related to resource exploitation, for example by oil rigs, but could … or uses of marine living organisms, parts thereof or their genetic material. While some regard it as marine scientific …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… in three programme areas; Biological Diversity and Marine Resources; Climate Change and Energy; and Trade, … The issue: biosafety 5 Box 4. History 6 Box 5. Examples of genetic modification 9 IV Cross-cutting issues 11 Box 6. … (UNEP), Microbial Strain Data Network (MSDN) – Information Resource for the Release of Organisms (IRRO) …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity