BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aa82ac7d8dfb DTSTART:20180716T061500Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20180716T074500Z LOCATION:New York\, United States of America SUMMARY:BioTrade\, Access and Benefit-Sharing in support of the SDGs: Enter ing a new alliance for economic growth\, innovation and biodiversity CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Open for all participants attending the 2018 HLPF This roundta ble event will provide a critical analysis on how trade\, and BioTrade and the ABS Mechanism under the Nagoya Protocol\, can be incentives for the a chievement of several SDGs\, especially SDG 15 by promoting benefit sharin g\, and sustainable trade and livelihoods with the ultimate objective of r educing biodiversity loss. Several developing and least developed countrie s have identified biological and genetic resources as an economic asset an d embarked on transforming their production and export-base towards biodiv ersity friendly sectors\, products\, and services. Many of them have also ratified and started implementation of the Nagoya Protocol. This contribut es not only to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity but also to incre ase legal certainty\, employment\, technology transfer\, business opportun ities and income for SMEs and local communities\, particularly those rich in biodiversity. The event is organized with the support of the Swiss Stat e Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO under the Global BioTrade Programm e: Linking trade\, environment and sustainable development and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).Background For two decades\, BioTrade and its partners and beneficiaries in Africa\, Asia\, Latin America and Europe have contributed to enhancing environmenta l\, social and economic sustainability through the trade of biodiversity-b ased goods and services. This has generated initiatives that use their sur rounding biodiversity\, going beyond traditional agricultural crops and li vestock\, to develop and trade value added products. Moreover\, BioTrade i s increasing the economic self-reliance and resilience of communities and SMEs\, mainstreaming biodiversity and ABS\, while safeguarding biodiversit y. Consequently\, BioTrade contributes directly and indirectly to 94% of t he SDGs.Though only 4% of world trade (US$290 billion) is related to biodi versity-based goods and services (Gomez-García et al\, 2014)\, the market has shown astonishing growth in past decades and is continuing to grow at a rapid pace. For instance\, the growth of the natural product sales incr eased from US$1.9 billion in 1980\, to US$141 billion in 2016 (New Hope Ne twork\, 13 July 2017)\, provided stimulus for companies to shift towards s ocially and environmentally friendly production processes. More significan tly\, sales from BioTrade beneficiary companies and associations have reac hed Euro 4.44 billion (US$5.38 billion) in 2016 in over 3500 value chains in Africa\, Asia\, Latin America and Europe\, illustrating a significant i ncrease from US$ 30 million in 2003.Today\, more than 105 countries have r atified the Nagoya Protocol. Well-designed Nagoya-compliant BioTrade value chains\, framed by enabling Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS) regimes are fostering a range of Agenda 2030 Goals with the target 6 of SDG 15 at its core. Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS) is directly related to poverty alle viation\, (1.4)\, food security (2.5)\, health (3.b)\, economic growth (8. 3)\, infrastructural development (9.5\, 9.5b)\, climate change adaptation (13.1)\, marine conservation (14.7\, 14.7a)\, terrestrial conservation (15 .a)\, peace and justice (16.3\, 16.6)\, and global partnerships (17.3\, 17 .7\, 17.9\, 17.17\, 17.15).In response to the worldwide consumer and marke t trends of “more natural” and “more traceable” products and servi ces such as those in the food\, body care and pharmaceutical sectors\, R&a mp\;D and innovation-oriented projects with strong monitoring components a re on the rise. Increasingly\, BioTrade companies tend to engage in R&\ ;D at the higher level of the value chain and therefore potentially trigge r ABS regulations. Recent experiences in countries such as South Africa\, Peru\, and Viet Nam show that there is flexibility and various models and options to create incentives for compliance and sharing of benefits for al l parties involved.   https&\;#58\;//reg.unog.ch/event/25720/\n\nVie w meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/biotrade-access-and-be nefit-sharing-support-sdgs-entering-new-alliance-economic-growth DTSTAMP:20260914T171135Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR