Transcript High seas - Census of Marine Life Secretariat

Making Ocean Life Count:
High Level Policy Briefings
Meryl Williams
Scientific Steering Committee
Making Ocean Life Count
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Key Policy Targets
Priority events calendar
Objectives, teams for each event
The event template
What you can do
Making Ocean Life Count
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Focus on oceans
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Supporting a greater policy focus on the
oceans and marine life
II. High seas
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Inputs to UN policies to protect the oceans
beyond national jurisdictions
III. Marine biodiversity
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Ensuring ocean observing systems fully
incorporate marine biodiversity
I. Focus on Oceans
Supporting a greater policy focus on the
oceans and marine life
Briefing for IUCN council
• Promote the importance of marine
biodiversity conservation in the IUCN
program by informing IUCN Councillors
on Census findings
• TBD, IUCN and others
Biomarine
• Highlight the importance of marine life by
promoting the Census findings to the
private sector (Biomarine - ‘the Davos of
the sea’) (tentative)
• Myriam Sibuet (coordinator to be
confirmed)
UNSG’s Report to the General Assembly on
Oceans and Law of the Sea
• Highlight the significance of marine life
by working through UN agencies to
achieve substantial references to the
Census findings in the 2010 SGs report
• Meryl Williams (coordinator), Secretariat,
Jim Baker, Jesse Ausubel
Coordinating Body: United Nations
2012 International Biodiversity
Day
• Achieve recognition of the importance of marine
life by having the theme of World Biodiversity
Day 2012 declared as ‘Marine Biodiversity’
(first non-terrestrial theme)
• Meryl Williams (coordinator), Victor Gallardo,
others TBD
Coordinating Body: Convention on Biological
Diversity
II. High Seas
Inputs to UN policies to protect the oceans
beyond national jurisdictions
FAO Committee on Fisheries
2009
• Improve information base for area-based
fisheries management and marine
conservation by highlighting relevance of
Census findings and technologies
• Serge Garcia, Ron Odor, Jason HallSpencer (Censeam), Kristina Gjerde
(IUCN), CBD (tba)
Coordinating Body: United Nations
IUCN HS Ecologically and
Biologically Sensitive Areas
• Improve decisions of CBD-COP10 by
providing IUCN workshop with Census
scientific information to identify potential
high seas MPA regions
• Secretariat (coordinator), other project
contacts (probably from deep sea, TOPP),
Alex Rogers, Edward Vanden Berghe
Coordinating Body: International Union for
the Conservation of Nature
CBD-SBSTTA 14
• Improve SBSTTA advice on marine
biodiversity conservation to CBD-COP10
by providing Census information
• Meryl Williams (coordinator - tentative),
Shira, Victor Gallardo, others TBD
Coordinating Body: Convention on
Biological Diversity
CBD-COP10
• Support scientific base for COP10
decisions especially relating to protection
of marine biodiversity in high seas areas
• Y. Shirayama (coordinator), others to be
determined
Coordinating Body: Convention on
Biological Diversity
III. Marine Biodiversity
Ensuring ocean observing systems fully
incorporate marine biodiversity
UN Assessment of Assessments
• Ensure the proposed Global Marine
Assessment has access to best available
marine biodiversity knowledge by
contributing Census knowledge
• Ron Odor, Meryl Williams
Coordinating Body: United Nations
World Ocean Conference
• Enrich decision-makers’ knowledge of marine
biodiversity by exposing Census findings and
technologies, with special emphasis on the Coral
Triangle Initiative and climate change
• Ian Poiner (coordinator), Tonny Wagey, Jesse
Ausubel, Meryl Williams
Coordinating Body: Indonesian Government,
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries
OceanObs
• Ensure 10 year plans for global ocean
observing systems incorporate marine life
fully by contributing Census findings and
technologies
• Secretariat w/ POGO and SCOR Tech
Panel (Ed Urban)
Organizing Body: IOC-UNESCO and
Ecological Society of America (ESA)
GEF-IW Biennial Conference
• Ensure that GEF-IW projects and GEF
agencies improve their ability to monitor
and assess marine life by providing access
to Census findings and technologies (info,
tracking, genetic, remote sensing)
• Meryl Williams (coordinator), David
Farmer, Carlo Heip, Ian Poiner, Tonny
Wagey (some tbc)
Organizing Body: The World Bank
5th Global Conference on Oceans,
Coasts and Islands
• Improve effectiveness of marine policy and
management by informing the Global
Conference of Census findings and
technologies
• Ian Poiner (coordinator), Tonny Wagey,
Meryl Williams (tbc)
Organizing Body: Global Forum on Oceans,
Coasts and Islands
World Ocean Day 2010
• Highlight the importance of marine
biodiversity by having it as the theme for
World Ocean Day 8 June 2010
• Meryl Williams, Victor Gallardo
Organizing Body: The Ocean Project, may
be adopted by UN
IOC Executive Council and
Assembly Meeting
• Ensuring long-term global access to the best
marine biodiversity data through formally
establishing OBIS as a program of the IOC
• CoML Secretariat (co-coordinator), Edward
Vanden Berghe (co-coordinator), Jim Baker,
Victor Gallardo, Diego Rodriguez, & CoML
participants with good contacts to national
delegations (EvdB to advise)
Organizing Body: United Nations
GEO-BON
• Securing global long term and sustainable access
to and collection of marine biodiversity
knowledge by having CoML tools and
technologies included in GEOSS
• Edward Vanden Berghe (co-coordinator), Pat
Halpin (co-coordinator), Jim Baker, Mark
Costello, Jan de Leeuw, David Farmer
Organizing Body: Group on Earth Observations
Templates to Focus Planning
• WHAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE
• Goals and Objectives
• CoML messages to emphasize
• Target Audience
• WHO IS GOING TO DO THE WORK
• Coordinator, Organizers
• NRIC Participation
• Potential Speakers/Presenters
• THE PRACTICAL DETAILS
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Name, Date, Location
Actions, due dates
Format of Event, associated activities
Support Materials Needed
How can YOU get on board?