Introduction

The Biodiplomacy Programme has produced several UNU-IAS Reports linked with the areas of research within the programme.  UNU-IAS Reports are 20-40 page reports which convey the outputs of the UNU-IAS researchers (and their collaborators) as policy relevant messages.  The main audience for the reports are policy makers in national governments and representatives at international meetings such as meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity. 

The Programme has recently been expanding both its target audience and range of knowledge resources.  Two pocket-guides were produced in 2008 which target local communities (including indigenous peoples) and non-experts.  The pocket-guides are short, easy to follow explanations of the key issues in a particular area of international policy making such as climate change and access to genetic resources.  More extensive reports have also been produced which target policy makers and capacity development funding agencies.

2008

• Innovation in Responding to Climate Change: Nanotechnology, Ocean Energy and Forestry
• MDG on Reducing Biodiversity Loss and the CBD’s 2010 Target
• Emissions Trading, Carbon Financing and Indigenous People
• Access to Genetic Resources in Africa: Analyzing Development of ABS Policies in Four African Countries
• Certificates of Clarity or Confusion: The search for a practical, feasible and cost effective system for certifying compliance with PIC and MAT
• Queensland Biodiscovery Collaboration: The Griffith University AstraZeneca Partnership for Natural Product Discovery - An Access & Benefit Sharing Case Study
• Bioprospecting in the Arctic
• Internationally Funded Training in Biosafety and Biotechnology - Is it Bridging the Biotech Divide?

2007

• Effective Implementation of NBSAPs: Using a Decentralized Approach
• Is Human Reproductive Cloning Inevitable: Future Options for UN Governance

2005

• Bioprospecting of Genetic Resources in the Deep Seabed
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Bioprospecting in Antarctica

2004

• The Central Asia and Mongolia Bioresources and Biosecurity Network
Capacity Development on Access to Genetic Resources, Benefit-Sharing, and Biosafety in Central Asia and Mongolia
• The Role of Registers and Databases in the Protection of Traditional Knowlede, A Comparative Analysis

2003

• User Measures: Options for Developing Measures in User Countries to Implement the Access and Benefit-Sharing Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2nd edition)
• Biodiversity Access and Benefit-Sharing Policies for Protected Areas
• The International Regime for Bioprospecting: Existing Policies and Emerging Issues for Antarctica
• In Search of BiosecurityCapacity Development on Access to Genetic Resources, Benefit-Sharing, and Biosafety in Central Asia and Mongolia