Historic New Treaty Lays Ground Rules for Sharing Benefits of World’s Wealth of Genetic Resources

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Historic New Treaty Lays Out Ground Rules for Sharing Benefits of World’s Wealth of Genetic Resources

Governments Also Agree Strategic 10 Year-Plan with Targets and Timetables to Combat Loss of Planet’s Nature-Based Resources

October 29, 2010
United Nations Environment Programme

Nagoya - After close to 20 years of discussion and debate, governments from across the globe today agreed to a new treaty to manage the world’s economically-central genetic resources in a far fairer and more systematic way.