Date: September 2014
What is the Nagoya Protocol?
The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international agreement which aims at sharing the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources in a fair and equitable way.
Useful links:
Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities ABS policy (pdf)
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution ABS policy (pdf)