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Addressee: CBD, Private Sector, Indigenous Peoples
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The Permanent Forum welcomes such initiatives as the indigenous and local community, business and biodiversity consultation, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 12 and 13 May 2009, as a useful dialogue between the private sector and indigenous peoples, and encourages further discussions with a view to ensuring the effective implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples while stimulating community-level businesses based on the sustainable use of biodiversity through such creative partnerships.
Responses
SCBD reports (2011): The tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties in its decision X/40, welcomed creative initiatives and partnerships between private-sector representatives and indigenous and local community representatives, taking note of the Indigenous and Local Communities, Business and Biodiversity Consultation and requested the Executive Secretary to report on such continuing efforts at the seventh meeting of the Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions.
Further to this, the private sector and in particular the aromatic, flavorings, cosmetic and
perfumery industrial sector, has expressed interest in building their capacity to adhere to the Nagoya Protocol and opportunities will be provided to the private sector as well as ILCs for capacity building on the Protocol in this biennium.
(Report to UNPFII Tenth Session by CBD: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/session_tenth.html)
Final Report of UNPFII Session 8 (2009)
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