The European Envirionment Agency has issued a news highlight that makes a useful focus for EU positions, reports and trends, summarising the position in the lead into Nagoya.
Huge amount of background information on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) in Africa on this Norway, Netherlands, French and German-funded site from the Fridtjof Nansen Insitute: worth browsing.
Nature has published a general news article (doi:10.1038/467764a) on the expectations for Nagoya
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Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
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