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The Nagoya Protocol is a global agreement, supplementary to the
Convention on Biological Diversity, which regulates the fair and
equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilisation of
genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with them
among the user and provider countries (parties), thereby
contributing to the conservation and sustainability of biological
diversity.
Although it was drafted in 2010 and signed between 2011 and
2012, it only entered into force on October 12, 2014, 90 days after
the fiftieth instrument of ratification was deposited. The Protocol
has 125 members and 127 ratifications (Montenegro and Oman are
Following on the heels of the recently-released federal Climate Plan, the Government of Canada has unveiled its Small Modular Reactor Action Plan (the "Action Plan").
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On January 7, 2021, the federal government, through Public
Services and Procurement Canada (Procurement Canada), announced the
launch of two Alberta-specific and two Canada-wide procurement
processes designed to further the Government s Clean
Electricity Initiative plan to use 100% clean electricity by
2022.
[1] The announcement includes the launch
of:
two requests for proposals (RFPs) for
the purchase of solar electricity in Alberta to power federal
operations in the Province (the Alberta RFPs), one of which is set
aside for Indigenous businesses; and
two RFPs for the purchase of
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) from new clean electricity
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The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
( the Act ) contains a range of policy reforms and
requirements that will impact companies doing business with the
Government and the supply chain. Many of these measures will be
refined through rulemaking.
Among other provisions, the Act:
Modifies the threshold for the Berry
Amendment, which restricts acquisition of certain materials to
domestic sources.
Imposes safeguards to prevent China
from acquiring defense-sensitive intellectual property, technology,
and data.
Expands restrictions on the
acquisition of certain materials from China, Russia, Iran, and
–
These acquisition categories are listed in decreasing order of
priority. They are prioritised based on the relative importance of
indigenisation. Apart from enhancing the minimum IC requirements,
the DAP 2020 also seeks to increase the indigenous availability of
high-end military materials and special alloys for future needs.
4 For this, the DAP 2020 has proposed
that public sector platform manufacturers, and research and
development establishments identify various materials that can be
indigenously developed by them or through transfer of technology
under the offset clause.
5 The DAP
2020 also seeks to utilise indigenous software for running
applications on equipment/systems and mandatorily include them
under the Buy (Indian – IDDM) and Buy (Indian) categories.