Horizon scanning, monitoring and assessment: Fundamental in ensuring equity and precaution in synthetic biology development

TWN Briefing Note on synthetic biology for the UN Biodiversity Conference 2024 calls for equity and precaution […]

Biodiversity Meeting Agrees on Limited Action on Technology and Synthetic Biology

Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have successfully established a process for horizon scanning, monitoring and assessment of the most recent technological developments in synthetic biology. […]

Bringing Horizon Scanning, Technology Assessment and Monitoring into the Future Work of the CBD

New briefing from ETC Group and Friends of the Earth calls on delegates to the upcoming UN biodiversity meetings in Montreal (3-19 December, 2022) to continue the CBD’s long and world-leading commitment to precaution. […]

Updated Briefing Note on Target 7 (pesticides) of the Post-2020 GBF

Briefing note from Pesticide Action Network UK and the Third World Network addressing the pesticides aspects of Target 7 of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The analysis is on the ‘streamlined’ text proposed by the Informal Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. […]

Updated Briefing Note on Target 17 (biosafety) of the Post-2020 GBF

TWN briefing note on Target 17 of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Target 17 is the biosafety target and would apply to all Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The analysis is on the ‘streamlined’ text proposed by the Informal Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. […]

UN Biodiversity Conference to Debate Synthetic Biology, Financial Resources Mobilization

The issue of synthetic biology, which cross cuts the Convention on Biological Diversity, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing, will be among the most hotly debated issue at the UN Biodiversity Conference meeting from 4-17 December in Cancún, Mexico. […]

4th Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

The 4th meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 4) will be held in Bonn, Germany, from 12 to 16 May 2008.

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5th meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress, Cartagena Protocol on Bioasfety

International Biosafety Course

Holistic Foundations for Assessment and Regulation of Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified OrganismsDate: 28 July – 08 August 2008Venue: Science Park/University of Tromsø, NorwayTopics include:Holistic overview of genetics, ge […]

International Biosafety Course, Tromso, Norway