NAGOYA — A five-day international meeting on biosafety is taking place in Nagoya, with the aim to reach an agreement on a new set of rules to assign responsibility and help determine compensation when an ecosystem is damaged by the introduction of legally modified organisms.
The 160 nations that are signatories to the United Nations Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety are in Japan to discuss issues related to the transport of genetically modified organisms and the damage that can result to biodiversity from such organisms.
The Nagoya gathering, which kicked off Monday, is the fifth meeting of the members of the parties to the MOP5 protocol. It takes place just before the 10th meeting of the parties of the Convention of Biological Diversity, or COP10, being held in Nagoya from Oct. 18 to 29.