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Webinar: Integrating Access and Benefit-Sharing into Biodiversity Finance
This webinar will explore how Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS) can contribute to closing the biodive
SBI-7 Side event: From ABS Agreements to Benefit-Sharing
Experiences from Parties generating benefits under the Nagoya Protocol
Сторона Nagoya Protocol
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The Global Pneumococcal Sequencing (GPS) project utilizes whole genome sequencing of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates, particularly from low and middle income countries, to monitor genetic variation and evolutionary changes that impact the effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs). The data supports understanding and tracking the genetic resources of pneumococci to inform vaccine development and public health strategies. *
An Act to give effect in Botswana to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilisation to the Convention on Biological Diversity; to provide for the establishment of administrative structures and processes for access to biological or genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge; to regulate access to biological or genetic resources and associated knowledge; to protect the rights of the local communities over biological or genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge; to provide for a fair and equitable sharing of benefits accrued from the utilisation of biological or genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge; and to provide for related matters.
Only designated competent national authority for the country
The field of jurisdiction of the Ministry of Environment is "Biological resources in the field of wildlife in accordance with the Wildlife Protection and Management Act and biological resources in accordance with the Act on the Conservation and Use of Biological Diversity".
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Nine ABS products developed under ABS Framework in 2025
The National Biodiversity Centre conducted the first day of a two-day awareness program for the tourism sector on 17 March 2026 at Serbithang. The program covered biodiversity conservation, global and national biodiversity frameworks, biopiracy, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Nagoya Protocol, and Bhutan's Access and Benefit Sharing mechanisms. Participants also visited NBC's biodiversity facilities and the Biodiversity Interpretation Centre and Orchidarium at the Royal Botanical Garden, Serbithang. The program aims to enhance awareness and encourage the tourism sector to actively contribute to biodiversity conservation and documentation through the Bhutan Biodiversity Portal (BBP).
Bhutan Launched Ten (10) new Bioprospecting Products developed under the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Framework
As part of the larger consultation and validation for the preparation of the First National Report on the Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol, an awareness programme was conducted for the wider stakeholders at the national and subnational level. Two objectives were achieved through this innitiative: Consultation and validation of the report, creating awereness on on the Nagoya Protocol and ABS innitiatives in Bhutan
