During June 2010, at an intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting in Busan in the Republic of Korea, a document was adopted which sets the path for establishing an IPBES. The “Busan Outcome” will go to the UN General Assembly later in 2010. Information documents that helped inform discussion during the third IPBES meeting in Busan included one commissioned by the Norwegian Government and prepared by UNEP-WCMC.
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Intellectual property rights and access to medicines were on the agenda at the first day of a biotechnology industry group’s annual convention yesterday. The group held a panel on IP rights and also released a policy statement on access to medicine in developing countries. The director of the US Patent and Trademark Office commented positively on the initiative. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)’s 
The cosmetics industry is about beauty, but it is also increasingly about biodiversity as consumers show a growing awareness of environmental issues and the loss of biodiversity. As a wishful wink to the 10th meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010, the Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) held a conference at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris on 15 April. The event, named “The Beauty of Sourcing with Respect,” gathered about 80 participants mainly from the cosmetics industry as the biotrade union sought to increase the sector’s awareness about biodiversity, engage companies in the ethical sourcing of biodiversity, and advertise the actions of UEBT.
The sixth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity will be held February 1-5, 2010, and will consider status and lessons learned from the 2010 target and provide CBD with a sound basis for developing post 2010 biodiversity targets. New targets will be set under CBD and the United Nations in the second half of 2010. 
With only less than 52 days left before the start of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), the website for this unique event in the history of the United Nations was officially launched at a ceremony in Montreal, held with more than 500 participants representing the 193 Parties to the Convention and partner organizations.
Aichi/Nagoya International E-Conference on the post 2010 Biodiversity Target (ANIEC 2010) has been launched today to gather opinion from the broad and diverse groups of stakeholders on “how” and “what” actions should be taken in the short and medium term after 2010.
The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, was in Cambridge this month to give the inaugural The Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) Guest Lecture. Mr Benn welcomed the creation of The Cambridge Conservation Initiative as a key player in helping to evaluate and communicate the importance of ecosystems and biodiversity. He stressed the need to articulate clearly the science, and specifically the numbers, that show how ecosystems underpin economic prosperity, and to act on the economic opportunities that biodiversity conservation offers. 
