News
News
26 January 2010
Susette Biber-Klemm participated as a representative of public research in the CBD Meeting of the Friends of the Co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, in Montreal, Canada, 26-29 January 2010.
15 October 2009
Science-policy round table on "Access to genetic resources and benefit sharing – Challenges and opportunities for biodiversity science" on October 15th, 2009 during the DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference in Cape Town, South Africa (http://www.diversitas-osc.org/). The round table was organized by the Swiss Academy of Sciences and Prof. Peter Linder, University of Zürich.
The round table discussed the impact of ABS on non-commercial research and the significance of the ongoing CBD negotiations for academia. Specialists presented ABS information and news on the current political processes. Representatives and researchers from developing and industrialized countries stated viewpoints and reported on their experience with the ABS system. (ABS_RoundTable_OSC2_flyer, PDF, 250KB)
January 2009
Evaluation of the SCNAT publication «Access and Benefit Sharing – Good Practice for Academic Research on Genetic Resources»
In order to improve the use and applicability of the Good Practice brochure, the Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT carries out a survey among its users. We kindly ask you to participate and fill out the questionnaire on the usefulness and applicability of the brochure «Access and Benefit Sharing – Good Practice for Academic Research on Genetic Resources». This will require no more than 10-15 minutes. Your opinion is important to us. Your input will support our efforts to improve the information on ABS for scientists. You are most welcome to distribute the questionnaire to other interested scientists. (ABS evaluation questionnaire, PDF, 132 KB)
Kindly return the form to abs@scnat.ch
