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Friday, March 12, 2021
TCR Breaking News: AME Clergywoman Elected to Chair United Nations Panel
TCR Breaking News: AME Clergywoman elected to chair United Nations Panel
NAMIBIAN biodiversity expert Rev. Dr. Kauna Schroeder has been elected chairperson of the compliance committee of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing under the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). She serves as the Presiding Elder of the Windhoek District of the Namibia Conference in the 15th Episcopal District.
Schroeder is the principal project coordinator and adviser to the Office of the Environmental Commissioner in the Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism. She was elected at the committee's virtual third meeting held recently.
The Nagoya Protocol is a legally binding agreement aimed at ensuring the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the commercial utilisation of genetic resources and related traditional knowledge. Before being elected, Schroeder was a full member of the committee representing the African region.
The chairperson and the vice-chairperson of the committee serve for a period of two years. Dr. Tianbao Qin was elected the vice-chairperson. The duties of the Nagoya Protocol Compliance Committee are to monitor the compliance of parties to submit national reports and help those parties facing difficulties with compliance.
Namibia is an active party to the CBD and its Nagoya Protocol, which was adopted on 10 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan.
The other two objectives of the CBD are the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of its components. Schroeder serves as Namibia's focal point for the Nagoya Protocol and spearheaded the finalisation of Namibia's Access and Benefit Sharing and Associated Traditional Act which was promulgated in 2017.
The Nagoya Protocol compliance committee is composed of members drawn from five regions of the world: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean and Western Europe.
Because of the global acceptance that indigenous people and local communities depend hugely on biological and genetic resources, the CBD has allowed these groups to be represented in the committee.
The CBD is one of three multi-lateral environmental agreements that were adopted at the 1992 landmark Rio Earth Summit.
The other two are the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
Bishop Daniels stated the following regarding Dr. Shroeder, "The Reverend Dr. Betty Kauna Schroder is one of 11 capable, productive and spiritual females Presiding Elders I have appointed in the 15th Episcopal District. She is a phenomenal woman of God doing an excellent job."
The Christian Recorder is the official newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the oldest continuously produced publication by persons of African descent.
Bishop Vashti M. McKenzie, Chair of the General Board Commission on Publications Rev. Dr. Roderick D. Belin, President/Publisher of the AME Sunday School Union Mr. John Thomas III, Editor of The Christian Recorder
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