Description
A
growing number of bilateral and regional trade agreements incorporate
provisions relevant to the relationship between biodiversity and
intellectual property, which tend to go beyond, either in scope
or level of protection, of the standards established at the multilateral
level. Provisions on patents and plant variety protection, among
others, will thus have a direct impact on the development and
implementation an international regime on access and benefit sharing
at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), including on
issues such as preventing misappropriation, ensuring compliance
with prior informed consent, protecting traditional knowledge,
and promoting the transfer of technology.
This
event, organized by ICTSD in the context of the sixth meeting
of the CBD Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing, will provide
a platform for discussion of provisions relating to biodiversity,
trade and IP in recent bilateral and regional free trade agreements,
as well as for the consideration of the implications of these
provisions for relevant multilateral discussions and negotiations
in the context of the CBD, the Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) of the World Trade Organization
(WTO), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
A
light lunch will be served
