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Biotechnology
Emerging
issues
 Background
Threats
of unintended gene transfers
Major
Assessments
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UN
UNEP
-SCBD
Convention
on Biological Diversity :Voluntary Guidelines on Biodiversity-Inclusive
Impact Assessment 
UNEP/CBD, March 2006, Brazil
At its sixth meeting the Conference of the Parties, in decision VI/7 A endorsed
the draft guidelines for incorporating biodiversity-related issues into
environmental impact assessment legislation and/or processes and in strategic
environmental assessment. In the same decision, the Executive Secretary
was requested to compile and disseminate, through the clearing-house mechanism
and other means of communication, current experiences in environmental impact
assessment and strategic environmental assessment procedures that incorporate
biodiversity-related issues, as well as experiences of Parties in applying
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Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity: text
and annexes
UNEP/Secretariat of the Convention on Biological
Diversity, 2000.
ISBN: 92-807-1924-6.
The objective of this Protocol is to contribute to ensuring an adequate
level of protection in the field of safe transfer, handling and use of
living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology that may
have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological
diversity, taking also into account risks to human health, and specifically
focusing on transboundary movements.
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Chinese,
English,
French,
Russian,
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Links and Resources
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Agenda
21, Chapter 16
FAO
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UNIDO/BINAS
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