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Bell Tolls For Biodiversity Benefit-Sharing Treaty

By Intellectual Property Watch

Today the negotiating group on a protocol aimed at stopping biopiracy and rewarding countries providing genetic resources had to admit, hours from the end of the high-level meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), that it has not reached an agreement on the draft text. The president of the convention gave them one more deadline of midnight in Nagoya, Japan, before ministers gather for the last time tomorrow.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on October 28, 2010 (boomark / email).