A commission of El Salvador’s national Legislative Assembly has been conducting a wide-ranging consultation of various stakeholders in connection with the proposed ratification of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits … Continue reading
On August 1, 2012, on behalf of itself and several other ministries, Uruguay’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted a document to the General Assembly (Uruguay’s bicameral legislative body), seeking consideration and approval of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic … Continue reading
On May 16, 2012, with the signature of Governor Peter Shumlin, Vermont became the first U.S. state to ban hydraulic fracturing wells for natural gas and oil production. See H.R. 464 (Act No. 0152). The state legislature determined that hydraulic … Continue reading
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