Biosafety is one of the issues addressed by the Convention on Biological Diversity. At its second meeting, held in November 1995, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention established an Open-ended Ad Hoc Working Group on Biosafety to develop a draft protocol on biosafety, focusing specifically on transboundary
movement of any living modified organism resulting from modern biotechnology that may have adverse effect on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. After several years of negotiations, the Protocol, known as the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity, was finalized and adopted in Montreal on 29 January 2000 at an extraordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties. The Protocol thus creates an enabling environment for the environmentally sound application of
biotechnology, making it possible to derive maximum benefit from the potential that biotechnology has to offer, while minimizing the possible risks to the environment and to human health.
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- CBD Guidelines ADDIS ABABA PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES FOR THE SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY 2004
- CBD Guidelines Akwé: Kon Guidelines 2004
- The CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY: Reducing the environmental risks of modern biotechnology 2000
- CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
- CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY TEXT AND ANNEXES
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- CBD The 2010 Biodiversity Target:. to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss.
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- SECTION II CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
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- Adaptation Under the Frameworks of the CBD, the UNCCD and the UNFCCC 2007 or earlier
- VI/23. Alien species that threaten ecosystems, habitats or species Chapter DECISIONS ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY 6th Meeting 2002
- VII/18. Incentive Measures (Article 11) Chapter from the DECISIONS ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AT ITS 7th MEETING 2004
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- Agenda item 3.5 Ecosystem approach DECISION ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AT ITS 9th MEETING 2008
- Agenda item 4.5 IX/16. Biodiversity and climate change, CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY Ninth 2008
- Agenda item 4.10 IX/21. Island biodiversity DECISION ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AT ITS 9th MEETING
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- THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY 10 YEARS ON TAKING STOCK, LOOKING FORWARD
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- CBD GUIDELINES The Ecosystem Approach 2004
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- Goals, targets and timeframes, and island-specific priority actions for the Parties 2009
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- THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND LEGAL CHALLENGES 2001 or older