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Events organized by the Project

Reflections on the Global Multilateral Benefit-Sharing Mechanism
Side event during the First Meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on ABS (ICNP 1), Montreal, Canada, 6 June 2011.
> Program and background


Reflection meeting on the global multilateral benefit sharing mechanism
24-25 March 2011, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, Norway.
> Report from the meeting


Side event
during the 10th meeting of CBD's Conference of the Parties (COP 10), Nagoya, Japan, 18-29 October 2010.


How to develop functional user country legislation
Side event during the Resumed 9th meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (Resumed WG ABS 9), Montreal, Canada, 12 July 2010.
> Powerpoint presentation by Morten Walløe Tvedt


Rationalities and possibilities for including sectoral needs and approaches into the International Regime
Side event during the 9th meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 9), Cali, Columbia, 25 March 2010.
> Program
> Powerpoint presentation by Morten Walløe Tvedt


An international regime on ABS: Essential questions with regard to scope
Side event during the 9th meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 9), Cali, Columbia, 22 March 2010.
> Program
> Powerpoint presentation by Morten Walløe Tvedt


Balancing Building Blocks of a Functional ABS System - a legal study of functionality issues in ABS
Side event during the 8th meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 8), Montreal, Canada, 9 November 2009.
> Program
> Powerpoint presentation by Tomme Rosanne Young and Morten Walløe Tvedt



External events with project participation

ABS Regional Consultations for Africa, Windhoek, Namibia, 4-6 February 2010.
FNI presentation: ABS and the Interfaces with other International Frameworks by Regine Andersen.

Training Course in Access and Benefit Sharing from Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge, Cape Town, South Africa, 25-29 January 2010.
FNI presentation: International Frameworks for Access and Benefit Sharing, by Regine Andersen.

ABS Workshop - Cape Town
South Africa, 14-15 December 2009.
Presentation by Morten Walløe Tvedt (see 'presentations' above).

First Pan-African Workshop on ABS and Forests, Nairobi, Kenya, 24 June 2009.
FNI presentation: Forests, forest genetic resources and Intellectual Property Rights, by Morten Walløe Tvedt.
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