Background
The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties, at its ninth meeting, requested the Executive Secretary to undertake a comprehensive study, subject to the availability of funds from the Voluntary Trust Fund, addressing: (a) the modalities of financial security mechanisms; (b) an assessment of the environmental, economic and social impacts of such mechanisms, in particular on developing countries; (c) an identification of the appropriate entities to provide financial security. The request was made in accordance with Article 10 of the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena protocol on Biosafety.
The Secretariat commissioned a consultant to undertake the study.
Curent review
The draft study is available for peer review until
25 June 2021 (see
Notification 2021-038).
Please note that the document is a draft, for comments only, and not for citation or other uses.
Comments should be made using the Word template available on this page and sent by official letter to secretariat@cbd.int as soon as possible, but no later than 25 June 2021. All submissions received through this review process will also be made available on this page in due course.
