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Socio-economic considerations under the Cartagena Protocol

At the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in October 2012 in India, decision BS-VI/13 on socio-economic considerations was adopted, comprising a series of activities to be undertaken prior to the 7th meeting to be held in September 2014 in the Republic of Korea. These included a series of regional online real-time conferences which took place on 13 June 2013 for the Western Europe and Others Group and Central and Eastern Europe; 17 June for Asia and the Pacific; 20 June for Africa; and 27 June for Latin America and the Caribbean (in Spanish). See http://bch.cbd.int/onlineconferences/portal_art26/se_main.shtml for transcripts of the conferences, plus other related resources, or contact [email protected] for further information.

02/11/2013