Implementing the access and benefit-sharing provisions of the CBD: A case for institutional learning

This will be done in the analytical part of the paper which focuses on institutional learning in the implementation process of the access and benefit-sharing provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It will be shown that the first decade in the implementation process since the Convention's entry into force in 1993 has demonstrated the CBD's potential for institutional learning and that this potential is key for successful subsequent decision-making.