The regional project aimed to assist the 10 ASEAN Member States and Timor-Leste in strengthening their capacity to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity provision on access and benefit sharing (ABS) through the development of national ABS frameworks and undertaking regional capacity building training and workshops on ABS issues.
Funding support was also provided by the GIZ Biodiversity and Climate Change Project (BCCP), the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), and the host countries.
Participants from the ASEAN Member States identified potential protected areas and key biodiversity areas for
Outgoing executive director Dr. Theresa Mundita S. Lim handed a moss plaque symbolising ASEAN biodiversity
The ASEAN Member States and the ACB launched the ASEAN Biodiversity Plan on the sidelines
