The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Richard Benyon)

On access and benefits sharing, one of the key agreements in Nagoya two years ago, we now have a road map for delivery towards the first meeting of the parties to the Nagoya protocol. Furthermore, we made some real progress on applying biodiversity safeguards for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, without cutting across the climate change convention, thereby achieving key UK objectives. There were also acceptable decisions about collaboration between biodiversity and climate change institutions on ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation and on geo-engineering.

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