Other than reviewing the state of implementation of the KMGBF and progress towards meeting its 23 targets, Parties would also finalize and operationalize the multilateral mechanism on the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources (see Box: Principles of CBD). [...] The multilateral mechanism is a departure from the current bilateral mechanism under which governments facilitate the access to genetic resources and benefit sharing between the countries and the users. [...] Since December 2022, the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the use of DSI on Genetic Resources has met twice to discuss the global fund and the multilateral mechanism for sharing the benefits. [...] Nearly all text is within brackets and negotiators would need to work hard to resolve the issues.3 In brief, Parties would deliberate over 29 modalities for operationalization of the multilateral mechanism for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources, and the global fund. [...] The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been 9 Centre for Science and Environment FACTSHEET ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING trying to understand the potential implications of the use of DSI under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA).
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Table of Contents
- FACTSHEET 1
- Recommendations will address questions such as how financial contributions from users of DSI should be calculated and how they should be shared equitably with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities 1
- ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 2
- FACTSHEET 2
- Centre for Science and Environment 2
- Principles of CBD 2
- ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 3
- FACTSHEET 3
- Why is lack of regulation a problem 3
- ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 4
- FACTSHEET 4
- Centre for Science and Environment 4
- ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 5
- FACTSHEET 5
- Centre for Science and Environment 5
- ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 6
- FACTSHEET 6
- Centre for Science and Environment 6
- ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 7
- FACTSHEET 7
- Centre for Science and Environment 7
- ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 8
- FACTSHEET 8
- Centre for Science and Environment 8
- ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 9
- FACTSHEET 9
- Centre for Science and Environment 9
- DSI in different forums 9
- ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 10
- FACTSHEET 10
- What is the way ahead 10
- ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 11
- FACTSHEET 11
- Centre for Science and Environment 11
- ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 12
- FACTSHEET 12
- Centre for Science and Environment 12
- ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING 13
- FACTSHEET 13
- Centre for Science and Environment 13
- Centre for Science and Environment 14
