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CARICOM at ‘pivotal’ COP16
Representatives from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have joined their counterparts from across the globe for the two-week Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Biodiversity Convention (COP16 ) now underway in Cali, Colombia. COP16 sessions began on Monday, 21 October. Discussions at COP16 will centre on how to accelerate the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in an…
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Nagoya Protocol capacity-building workshop underway in Suriname
A workshop to build CARICOM Member States’ capacity to implement the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing is currently being hosted by the CARICOM Secretariat in Suriname. The workshop is being held, in collaboration with the ABS (Access and Benefit-Sharing) Capacity Development Initiative and theGovernment of Suriname. Participants at the workshop include representatives of the National Focal Point agencies for the Nagoya Protocol,…
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CARICOM Secretariat hosts workshop on preventing genetic resources exploitation
The CARICOM Secretariat will host a workshop next week that is aimed at preventing the exploitation of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge within CARICOM Member States. The workshop is being held in Suriname, November 30-December 4, 2015, in collaboration with the ABS (Access and Benefit-Sharing) Capacity Development Initiative and the Government of Suriname. There will be approximately forty participants, including…
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CARICOM General Counsel commends Guyana for ratifying Environmental Agreements
General Counsel at the CARICOM Secretariat Ms. Safiya Ali says Guyana has set an example for the Region by being the only CARICOM country so far to ratify two relatively new environmental agreements: the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing and the Minamata Convention on Mercury. Ms. Ali was speaking at the opening ceremony of a National Customs Workshop on Multilateral Environmental Agreements that…
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