Blogging Biodiversity

So I was all set to celebrate my second anniversary of Blogging Biodiversity and to bring you wall-to-wall coverage of the fifth meeting of the CBD’s ABS Working Group when I got a new job!

I am now the Legal Officer for the Biosafety Unit of the CBD Secretariat.

Needless to say, this changed things quite a bit. I didn’t attend very much of ABS WG-5 and, as a member of a United Nations secretariat, I am now more limited in what I can say. Certainly, I won’t be blogging meetings in my new position and publishing on the internet my opinions on CBD negotiations is probably not such a good idea.

I may still post the occasional news story that’s just too good to pass up but don’t expect much commentary. In that vein, I note that the farmers in Hoffman v. Monsanto have had their request for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada denied. As usual, no reasons for denying the request were given by the Court. You can read thoughts by Jeremy deBeer here. There’s also been a couple of interesting ‘ABS in Canada’-related posts on the blog of McGill’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, see here and here.

I am also anticipating that a couple of publications I had in the pipeline prior to the new job will make it to print. I will be sure to announce those as well and post links and citations as appropriate.

Arrivederci for now. Please come say ‘hi’ if we both happen to be at the same meeting.

Posted on January 3rd, 2008 under ABS, CBD, Liability & Redress •  Print This Post •  Email This Post • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback