What are other countries doing at the domestic level for implementing the CBD requirements on ABS?
Many countries have implemented the requirements of the CBD on access and benefit-sharing. Usually, this is done through a new legislation, an amendment to a legislation or a new regulation. In Australia (like in Canada), ABS is under the shared jurisdiction of the States and Territories and the central government. Both levels of governments agreed on a number of common principles that their respective requirements on ABS should take into consideration. They called it the nationally consistent approach. The central government has addressed ABS under its new Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act and some Australian States and Territories have also developed new legislation on ABS: this is the case in Queensland and the Northern Territories and Tasmania is currently consulting for the development of its own legislation. In the United States (which are not Party to the CBD), some National Parks require a sort of access and benefit-sharing agreement (called a Cooperative
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