Biodiversity ECO produced at UNFCCC
Produced and circulated today in Copenhagen. Inside: What the CBD has to offer the Climate negotiations, REDD, Indigenous Rights and Climate Change, and Technology issues. See Here.

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Closing Statement - ABS 8, Montreal 15 November
By Third World Network on behalf of Civil Society Organizations
Thank you, Co-Chairs. I speak on behalf of the Civil Society Organisations present at this meeting.
We strongly reiterate our key positions on the fundamental aspects of the final outcome of the negotiations mandated to this Working Group.
On nature, we fully support a legally binding single instrument and look forward to Parties adopting a Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing under the Convention on Biological Diversity. Read the rest
ECO - 14 Nov 2009
Saturday ECO: STRONG NATURE, Agricultural Biodiversity, Intellectual Property, Non-coerced PIC, Lessons from Gold Mining, Report from Barcelona.
Also, check out a report from Fiu Elisera, recently in Barcelona for Climate talks.
ECO - 13 Nov 2009
Study finds pirating of African Heritage; The Two Row Wampum Treaty and the International Regime; The relevance of UNDRIPs in the CBD processes - Canada needs to uphold its' legal obligations; No narrowing of the definition of Traditional Knowledge
