Biotech Updates

Two New UNEP-GEF Biosafety Publications Online

March 2, 2007

The United Nations Environment Programme’s Global Environment Facility (UNEP-GEF) Biosafety Unit has just released two new publications online. The first, "A comparative analysis of experiences and lessons from the UNEP-GEF biosafety projects", is a study looking at the 124 countries that participated in the UNEP-GEF Project for Development of National Biosafety Frameworks (NBF). The 49-page study focuses on a comparative analysis of their experiences in order to draw out lessons and best practices applicable to other global initiatives for implementation of multilateral environmental agreements. The second publication is a 4-page brief entitled "Building biosafety capacity: The role of UNEP and the Biosafety Unit".

The publications are available at http://www.unep.ch/biosafety/development/devdocuments/UNEPGEFBiosafety_comp_analysisDec2006.pdf and http://www.unep.ch/biosafety/development/devdocuments/UNEPGEFBiosafety_BrochureDec2006.pdf. For more information, contact biosafety@unep.ch.