The importance of non-monetary benefits in ABS processes and their contribution to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and to sustainable development is increasingly acknowledged and documented. This indicator, as a possible proxy for non-monetary benefits, would aim to measure the number of publications and research results arising from the implementation of access and benefit-sharing instruments. This indicator would require the development of a methodology to extract information from publications or other databases used in research at the global level, which could then be disaggregated and compiled for use by Parties at the national level. Some Parties to the Convention are already making use of such methods (e.g. advanced keyword searches, systematic literature reviews).

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