Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 8 November 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will place in the Library a copy of the international agreement on biodiversity concluded at Nagoya in October 2010.
Over 40 decisions were agreed by the 193 parties to the convention on biological diversity (CBD), by consensus. These included an agreement on a new protocol on access and benefit sharing with respect to genetic resources, a new strategic plan setting out the actions required by parties to meet the new mission of the convention, and a resource mobilisation strategy to help developing countries to deliver their commitments for biodiversity. The decisions are available as advance, unedited texts from the CBD website. The final versions will be published on the CBD website once the official Rapporteur of the meeting has agreed to them.
Copies of decisions of meetings of intergovernmental bodies like the Conference of the Parties to the CBD would not normally be placed in the Library, as they are not published in the United Kingdom, and are freely available from the internet.
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