India and Norway are to set up a Centre for Biodiversity Policy and Law, CEBPOL at Chennai NBA. A letter of intent in for this was signed today in New Delhi between Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh and Norwegian counterpart Erik Solheim. The Government of Norway has offered to provide technical and institutional collaboration for the CEBPOL.Ramesh said, as a mega diverse country and as victim of bio piracy, India has played an important role in Access and Benefit Sharing – ABS. He said that Norway is the first developed country to have recently enacted a national legislation on it. India and Norway can therefore learn from each other's experiences relating to ABS and traditional Knowledge.This collaboration is an outcome of the close Indo-Norwegian dialogue under the Joint Working Group on Environment.