2015-01-27
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Brazil and the European Union co-hosted a panel to discuss the role of ex-situ collections under the Nagoya Protocol. Held on October 14, the event ran parallel to the 12th Conference of the Parties on Biological Diversity (COP12) and the 1st Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol (COPMPOG1), in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The panel, sponsored by the EU-Brazil Sector Dialogues Support Facility, addressed issues that had been previously discussed by Brazilian and European representatives in 2013, under the action supported during the 6th call for participation. At the time, the action "Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Distribution of Beneficiaries" included two theme-based workshops: one focusing on internal skills development regarding Brazilian biological collections and another with an international orientation, attended by representatives of major European culture collections, botanical gardens, museums, seed banks and gene sequence data banks.
About 40 people, from at least 15 countries and five continents, took part in the panel. In the audience, there were also representatives of institutions and national and international organisations - such as the Secretariats of the CITES and CBD conventions, the World Health Organisation, the World Federation of Culture Collections, the Global Genome Biodiversity Network, the Consortium for the Barcode of Life, Scientific Collections International and the Japan Bioindustry Association.
COP 12 - Representatives from more than 160 countries, including Brazil, took part in the meeting to assess the new measures to protect biodiversity for sustainable development purposes and discuss progress in the implementation of the Strategic Plan for World Biodiversity.
The 12th Session of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 12) was held on 16 and 17 October, 2014, in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and addressed the theme "Biodiversity for Sustainable Development."
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