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COST Event Report: International Workshop on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Governance after the Nagoya Protocol: Architecture and Actors
COST Event Report: International Workshop on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Governance after the Nagoya Protocol: Architecture and Actors
Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway, 26-27 September 2011
Workshop organizers: Sebastian Oberthuer, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium and Kristin Rosendal, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway
The focus of the workshop was on assessing the particular features and the functioning of international ABS governance in general and the Nagoya Protocol in particular as well as the role of a range of actors (including non-state actors, the EU, Switzerland as a “small power”) in the emergence of the Protocol. The format of the workshop in which some 15-20 researchers participated (many of them with longstanding expertise in the issue) allowed for in-depth discussion of the 10 papers presented. The meeting was chaired and moderated by Sebastian Oberthür (IES) and Kristin Rosendal (FNI). Each paper was assigned a time-frame of one hour: after a 10-minute presentation by the author(s), detailed comments were provided by a discussant, followed by about 40 minutes of discussion among all participants.
Two very productive days of discussion were possible thanks to the funding of the EU COST Action IS0802 “Transformation of Global Environmental Governance”. The charming atmosphere of the Nansen house and the hospitality of FNI and its staff resulted also in the idea of pursuing an edited book covering the workshop topic; a draft work-plan aiming at the finalisation of the book manuscript in the course of 2012 was agreed.
