{"id":507165,"date":"2010-04-02T15:12:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2010-04-02T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:12:16","slug":"draft-biodiversity-accord-finalized-at-un-meeting-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/507165","title":{"rendered":"Draft biodiversity accord finalized at UN meeting in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=34248&amp;Cr=biodiversity&amp;Cr1\" >UN News Centre:<\/a> After a week of intensive discussions and six  weeks of preparation, a draft international agreement on access to the  Earth\u2019s genetic resources and the fair and equitable share in benefits  from their use has been finalized at a United Nations meeting in Cali,  Colombia.  \u201cFor its first United Nations meeting, Cali has fulfilled its mandate  and entered history as the birthplace of the draft Nagoya Protocol on  access and benefit sharing,\u201d Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary for the  UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said Sunday in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fullstory\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=34248&amp;Cr=biodiversity&amp;Cr1\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/News\/dh\/photos\/2010\/11-01-2010biodiversity.jpg\" width=\"162\" align=\"left\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a><\/span>\u201cParties and their partners have agreed on a draft Nagoya protocol, as  well as on the road map from Cali to Nagoya and beyond,\u201d Mr. Djoghlaf  added, noting that the draft will be on the agenda for adoption at the  Nagoya Biodiversity Summit to be held in October in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>More than 500 participants from governments, indigenous and local  communities, civil society, research institutions and business  contributed to this week\u2019s document.<\/p>\n<p>The draft protocol, which has not been publicly released, addressed the  issue of \u201caccess and benefit-sharing\u201d (ABS), which has historically been  a source of tension between developing countries and companies in  sectors such as pharmaceuticals, agriculture, horticulture and  biotechnology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=34248&amp;Cr=biodiversity&amp;Cr1\" >Read more&gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3253&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3253\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN News Centre: After a week of intensive discussions and six weeks of preparation, a draft international agreement on access to the Earth\u2019s genetic resources and the fair and equitable share in benefits from their use has been finalized at a United Nations meeting in Cali, Colombia. \u201cFor its first United Nations meeting, Cali has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}