Nagoya Protocol

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The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has submitted India’s First National Report on the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on Access Benefit Sharing to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. 

About Nagoya Protocol

• The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS) to the Convention on Biological Diversity is a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
• It was adopted on 29 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan and entered into force on 12 October 2014, 90 days after the deposit of the fiftieth instrument of ratification.
• It provides a transparent legal framework for the effective implementation of the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.
• India ratified it in 2012.
• What does it cover?
  • It applies to genetic resources that are covered by the CBD, and to the benefits arising from their utilization. 
  • It covers traditional knowledge (TK) associated with genetic resources that are covered by the CBD and the benefits arising from its utilization.

Key Facts about Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

• It is the most comprehensive binding international agreement in the field of nature conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources.
• It was opened for signing at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. 
• It has three overarching objectives
  • Conservation of biological diversity (genetic diversity, species diversity, and habitat diversity)
  • Sustainable use of biological diversity
  • Fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilisation of genetic resources.

Source: PIB

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