The Contribution of Access and Benefit Sharing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
A research project on the contribution of access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing (ABS) to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was carried out by UEBT, GeoMedia and the Institute for Biodiversity Network, thanks to the support of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN).
The project features a selection of ABS partnerships from different regions of the world. Based on these partnerships, which involve the use of genetic resources for commercial or scientific purposes, the project highlights lessons learned, emerging good practices and contributions to the SDGs.
The first project output consists in an overview of key ABS related elements for each of the 20 cases covered by the project. For each case, lessons learned as well as contributions to the SDGs are described.
The final outcomes of the project are contained in a publication available for download on this page. It examines in further detail eleven of the twenty cases covered by the project. The case studies provide a description of the context in which ABS partnerships were developed in different regions of the world, including actors involved, the resources accessed and the process that led to ABS arrangements. It also contains an analysis of key findings and conclusions with respect to lessons learned, emerging good practices and the contribution of ABS to the SDGs, on the basis of information gathered from all the cases.
Document type: Report
Date: 2021
