Local and international biodiversity stakeholders are raising an alarm about existing challenges hindering biodiversity development in the country, including a lack of awareness and ignorance.
This week in Geneva governments will discuss the development and operationalisation of a multilateral mechanism, including a global fund, for the sharing of benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources, to be .
Last year the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), under a threat of a vote, accelerated negotiations on an international legal instrument related to intellectual property (IP).