Cyrie SendashongaCurrently- Regional Coordinator, CIFOR,.pptVIP

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity Cyrie Sendashonga Currently: Regional Coordinator, CIFOR, Regional Office for Central Africa, Yaounde, Cameroon Formerly: Senior Programme Officer, Head of Biosafety Unit Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity Programme Background Key elements of the Protocol Conclusions 1. Background The Protocol is an international legally binding treaty which sets procedures and mechanisms to be applied in the transboundary movements of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs)- living organisms that possesses a novel comb