Arab Region Initiates Response to the Nagoya Outcomes
November 12, 2010| |
Government officials of Arab countries have scheduled an Arab Regional Workshop on Biodiversity and Finance on 29-30 November 2010 to discuss national and regional responses to the outcomes of the Nagoya biodiversity summit.
The Nagoya outcomes of the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) include the "Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization, the Strategic Plan for the Convention on Biological Diversity for the period 2011-2020, and a Strategy for Resource Mobilization."
These outcomes are expected to create massive efforts for biodiversity at the national, regional, and global levels. The Arab workshop is the first regional response to the Nagoya outcomes and one of the initial activities in the Arab region in support of their implementation. The workshop has been initiated by the Technical Secretariat of the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment (CAMRE) of the League of Arab States in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Office for West Asia and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Read the press release at http://www.cbd.int/doc/press/2010/pr-2010-11-08-rm-en.pdf.
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