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Burdened With Brackets, Biodiversity ABS Protocol Needs Political Will To Survive

By Intellectual Property Watch

Substantive progress eluded the negotiators of a draft protocol on biodiversity access and benefit sharing last week in Montreal, according to participating sources. The third attempt at finding consensus on key aspects of the text was unsuccessful and negotiations will carry on at the major United Nations meeting on biodiversity next month in Japan.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).