Two More Countries Sign Nagoya Protocol 08/04/2011 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)The secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity announced on 7 April that two more countries have ratified the Nagoya Protocol. Ecuador signed on 1 April, and the Central African Republic on 6 April. They follow Colombia, Yemen, Algeria, Brazil, Mexico, and Rwanda. The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization was adopted in October 2010 and will come into force 90 days after the ratification by 50 parties (IPW, Environment, 29 October 2010). “We are gaining momentum on our way to make history by setting a record for the entry into force of this important legal instrument in the service of sustainable development,” Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary to the CBD, said in a press briefing. A signing ceremony will be organised at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on 11 May 2011. The CBD secretariat is hoping that a large number of countries will sign at this occasion, which coincides with the Ministerial Segment of the 19th session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, the briefing said. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related "Two More Countries Sign Nagoya Protocol" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.