Transcript 05a_Hamid_RG-Vienna

GEF Communication Workshop
Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
GEF Communication Workshop
Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
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Caspian is a Sea of opportunities & of challenges!
• What do we expect from this Workshop ?
GEF Communication Workshop
Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
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Opportunities
Regional Dialogue:
Regional desire for peace ; ongoing negotiation on the legal regime;
Tehran Convention
Economic potentials
Hydrocarbon resources, third in world ; rich bioresources , some $ 5
billion ; transport corridor; Ecotourism.
Time factor
Time has not yet run out for Caspian !
GEF Communication Workshop
Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
• Environmental Challenges
• Alarming decline in fisheries; Sturgeon ban
• Erosion of Biodiversity ; ML
• Pollution; eutrophication
• Unsustainable coastal development; sea level fluctuations
GEF Communication Workshop
Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
• Social, economic and political challenges
Relatively low total GDP, low Per capita GDP and HDR
High expectations & Unsatisfied demands
Legal regime not settled
political and ethnical conflicts
Young democracies with long memories of past
Low priority to environment, low environment budgets
Strong outside interests
GEF Communication Workshop
Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
• Support to CEP
• Good support from UN bodies and the European Union
• Fair to low support from governments
• Limited support from international industry
• Not much from national oil companies
GEF Communication Workshop
Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
• Achievements
• Created , supported regional dialogue; Convention, PCU, NFPS,
MPPAS , RAGS
• Diagnosed transboundary issues , suggested solutions: TDA,
stakeholders analysis, NCAPs, SAP, PPS
• Resource mobilization: PIPS, MSGP , approaches to the
industry
• Pilot projects and capacity building efforts e.g EVE
GEF Communication Workshop
Vienna: January 19/20, 2006
What do we expect from this workshop?
• Let us know what is meant by communication ?!
• Share experience on data and information access in a formalist
region where nothing goes free! .
• Share experience on how to realistically engage the
stakeholders in getting things done!