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• ABS tools elaborated by the Swiss Academy of Sciences
• Sample ABS Agreement for Non-Commercial Research (2010) Biber-Klemm S, Martinez SI, Jacob A, Jetvic A. Swiss Academy of Sciences (ed), Bern, Switzerland. NonCommResearch_ABS_Agreement (PDF, 827KB)
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• Report: Access to Genetic Resources and Sharing of Benefits – ABS Program 2003–2010 of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (2010) Biber-Klemm S, Martinez SI, Jacob A. Swiss Academy of Sciences, Bern, Switzerland → ABS_Program_2003-2010_Report (PDF, 1.6MB)
• Access and Benefit Sharing – Good practice for academic research on genetic resources (2009) Biber S, Martinez S, Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT, Bern Switzerland: 1-58. English version, 2nd edition, 2009 → ABS_GoodPractice_2009 (PDF, 692KB)
Good Practice brochure in French: version française: → APA_BonnesPratiques_ABS (PDF, 644KB)
Good Practice brochure in Spanish: versión en castellano → APB_BuenasPracticas_ABS (PDF, 636 KB)
• Compilation of ABS Guidelines and Codes of Conduct for non-commercial research (PDF, 56 KB)
• Our publications in journals
Martinez SI, Biber-Klemm S. 2010. Good reasons why the ABS Protocol should include simple access procedures for non-commercial public good research on biodiversity. MEA Bulletin 99, International Institute for Sustainable Development IISD. Link to full article or PDF, 307KB
Martinez SI, Biber-Klemm S. 2010. Scientists – take action for biodiversity. Current Opinion on Sustainable Development COSUST 2(1-2):27-33. doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2010.03.004 → (PDF, 323KB)
Biber-Klemm S. 2008. Access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable Sharing of the Benefits. Environmental Law Network Internationanl, Elni review 1/08: 12-18. →(PDF, 975KB)
• Interesting publications by other authors
Schindel D (2010) Biology without borders. Nature 467:779-781 (13 Oct 2010. DOI:10.1038/467779a
Cock MJW (2010) Biopiracy rules should not block biological control. Nature 467:369. 23 Sep 2010 →Link
Cock MJW, van Lenteren JC, Brodeur J, Barratt BIP, Bigler F, Bolckmans K, Cônsoli FL, Haas F, Mason PG, Parra JRP. 2010. Do new Access and Benefit Sharing procedures under the Convention on Biological Diversity threaten the future of biological control? Biocontrol, DOI: 10.1007/s10526-009-9263-4 (online first).
Jinnah S and S Jungcurt. 2009. Could Access Requirements Stifle Your Research? Science 323: 464.
Schindel DE , CL Häuser, SE Miller, and participants in an international workshop: K Bavikatte, E Beck, C Burks, N Davies, P Desmeth, P du Plessis, G Garrity, R Geeta, F Haas, K Holm-Mueller, B Huntley, EC Kamau, W Kim, C Lyal, L Marinoni, S Martinez, K Matsuura, KJ Ni, P Ong, R Schönwitz, JD Wahiche. 2009. Preserving International Access to Genetic Resources for Non-Commercial Biodiversity Research - Submission of views from participants in the International Workshop on the topic of “Access and Benefit-sharing in Non Commercial Biodiversity Research”, Bonn, 17-19 November 2008. UNEP/CBD/WG-ABS/8/INF/6
Report of a workshop on access and benefit-sharing in non-commercial biodiversity research. 2008. The workshop was held at the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum, in Bonn, Germany, 17 – 19 November 2008. UNEP/CBD/WG-ABS/7/INF/6
