2026 Biodiversity Law & Governance Day: Implementation of Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS)

VI. Expert Roundtable: Exploring New Developments for the Implementation of Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) What are the emerging issues, trends and challenges for effective implementation of ABS? How do the Nagoya Protocol, WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge (GRATK Treaty), ITPGRFA and other international regimes intersect, and how can more coherent national regulations be crafted? Hosted by Univ Costa Rica, Univ Cambridge, Univ Ottawa and Max Planck Institute* Chairs: Prof Jorge Cabrera Medaglia (Lead Counsel, Biodiversity & Biosafety, CISDL / Professor of Law, Univ Costa Rica); Prof Markus W. Gehring (Lead Counsel, Sustainable Trade, CISDL / Professor in European and International Law, Univ Cambridge) Speakers/Discussants: Adv Manuel Ruiz (Fellow, CISDL); Prof Chidi Oguamanam (Professor of Law, Univ Ottawa); Dr Pedro Batista (Affiliated Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute Munich / Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure Karlsruhe); Prof Christine Frison (Research Professor, Univ Liège), by video address Online Operator: Adv Julieta Sarno (BLGI Secretariat) Online Moderator: Adv Marine Karapetyan (Scholar, YSU) Online Rapporteur: Adv Lusine Zakaryan (Scholar, YSU)