Blogging Biodiversity

ABS - Access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing
CBD - Convention on Biological Diversity
COP - Conference of the Parties
EPO - European Patent Office
FAO - United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
IP - Intellectual property
IPO - Indigenous peoples’ organization
IT or ITPGRFA - International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
MOP - Meeting of the Parties (or, more fully, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)
SBSTTA - Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
TRIPS - Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
USTR - United States Trade Representative
WGRI - Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Implementation of the CBD
WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization
WTO - World Trade Organization