The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Use to the CBD, more commonly known as the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing (APA), is an international agreement on biodiversity. This protocol was adopted at the ^10th meeting of the United Nations COP on Biodiversity on October 29, 2010 in Nagoya, Japan and came into force on October 12, 2014. Côte d'Ivoire signed on 25 January 2012 and ratified on 24 September 2013.