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Scientific criteria for EBSAs

Press Release: The 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly has recognized the importance of recent decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), including those dealing with implementation of the global oceans agenda and realization of the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development “Rio + 20” - “the future we want.”

United Nations General Assembly resolutions highlight contribution of the Convention on Biological Diversity for oceans agenda and implementation of Rio + 20 outcomes

Montreal 21 December 2012. The 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly has recognized the importance of recent decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), including those dealing with implementation of the global oceans agen ...

Request for scientific information in support of the objectives of upcoming CBD regional workshops to facilitate the description of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) in: i) North Pacific (Moscow, Russia – 25 February to 1 March 2013); and ii) South-Eastern Atlantic (Namibia – 8 to 12 April 2013)

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/JL/JG/81106 (2012-152)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points; FAO; regional seas conventions and action plans and RFMOs in the North Pacific and South-Eastern Atlantic regions; Abidjan Convention Secretariat, IOC–UNESCO, IOC–WESTPAC, NOWPAP, PICES, OBIS, ISA, UNEP-WCMC, GOBI, other competent organizations and regional initiatives, and ILCs

Request for scientific information in support of the objectives of upcoming CBD regional workshops to facilitate the description of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) in: i) North Pacific (Moscow, Russia – 25 February to 1 March 2013); and ii) South-Eastern Atlantic (Namibia – 8 to 12 April 2013)

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/JL/JG/81106 (2012-153)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points; FAO; regional seas conventions and action plans and RFMOs in the North Pacific and South-Eastern Atlantic regions; Abidjan Convention Secretariat, IOC–UNESCO, IOC–WESTPAC, NOWPAP, PICES, OBIS, ISA, UNEP-WCMC, GOBI, other competent organizations and regional initiatives, and ILCs

REMINDER AND CHANGE OF DATES: Sustainable Ocean Initiative (SOI) Capacity-Building Workshop for West Africa (4 to 8 February 2013) and South-Eastern Atlantic Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs) (8 to 12 April 2013)

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JL/JG/80877 (2012-142)
To: Competent organizations and regional initiatives, including regional seas conventions and action plans, and regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) in West Africa

REMINDER AND CHANGE OF DATES: Sustainable Ocean Initiative (SOI) Capacity-Building Workshop for West Africa (4 to 8 February 2013) and South-Eastern Atlantic Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs) (8 to 12 April 2013)

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JL/JG/80877 (2012-141)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points of West African coastal and island Parties

North Pacific Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs), 25 February to 1 March 2013, Moscow, Russia

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JL/JG/80987 (2012-139)
To: Competent organizations and regional initiatives, including regional seas conventions and action plans, and regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) in the North Pacific region

North Pacific Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs), 25 February to 1 March 2013, Moscow, Russia

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JL/JG/80987 (2012-137)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points in the North Pacific region: Canada, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Japan, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, United States of America

Marine Biodiversity and Ocean governance – The youth perspective

This event is designed to take place in the main conference setting (HICC) during the lunch break (13.15-14.45) of the Conference. Go4BioDiv is an International Youth Forum, aimed at providing a platform to the youth to voice their opinion on the issues related to biodiversity during CBD-COP as ...

Achieving Conservation and Sustainable Resource Management in the Marine and Coastal Programme of West Africa (PRCM)

The event will showcase progress in meeting the ambitious commitments made by Wet African countries at COP10 to expand their protected area systems and promote benefits to local people. The Nagoya commitments were followed-up with a donor roundtable meeting in 2011 with the Lifeweb Initiative an ...

Protection Pioneers of the Baltic Sea – joining regional forces in marine biodiversity protection

The best inventions are often first discovered in smaller scale, pilot projects, and test rounds – locally, or regionally, instead of globally. If these are, at the same time, closely connected to Governments, science communities and the commercial sector of several countries, the chances for su ...

Launch of Indo-German Partnership Programme on Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Conservation

This will be an official side eventjointly organised by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India (MoEF) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Government of Germany (BMU) to launch a new Indo-German partnership programme on “Coas ...

Journey through Marine and Coastal Biodiversity – the Youth perspective

This event – street theatre and presentation of the Go4BioDiv Declaration - is designed to take place on the Main Stage of the fair on the HITEX compound during a very prominent time, preferably in the early afternoon and on another date than the Go4BioDiv panel discussion on livelihoods (Side e ...

Sustainable Ocean Initiative High-level Side Event

Sustainable Ocean Initiative High-level Side Event

A 1st global network of key sites for seabird conservation: their uses for informing EBSAs and other marine conservation initiatives

Co-conveners: BirdLife International, Wild Bird Society of Japan, Bombay Natural History Society, Nairobi Convention Secretariat, Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat, The Forum for the Conservation of the Patagonian Sea and Areas of Influence Since 2005 BirdLife has been working to c ...

Traditional knowledge and area-based management measures in marine and coastal ecosystems

This event will focus on area-based forms of conservation and management measures in marine and coastal ecosystems, highlighting the successes of community-based management. This event will have speakers from different parts of the world.

Bioenergy and biodiversity

This event will present the most recent mounting evidence for harms to both terrestrial and marine (algae) ecosystems biodiversity resulting from escalating demands for bioenergy feedstocks. The policies and supports driving these will also be critiqued including assessment of the performance of ...

Protecting biodiversity in the North-East Atlantic

Description of areas meeting EBSAs criteria in North-East Atlantic region, building upon the Hyeres workshop in response to SBSTTA 16 recommendation, including the roadmap for the future refinement and finalization of Hyeres report, and the current status of the OSPAR MPA network.

IMPACTS OF UNDERWATER NOISE ON MARINE AND COASTAL BIODIVERSITY: GLOBAL COOPERATION FOR A QUIETER OCEAN

This side-event will discuss the impacts of underwater noise on marine and coastal biodiversity and habitats in the view of facilitating international and regional cooperation on addressing this issue within the overall context of marine biodiversity conservation and sustainable use.

Addressing biodiversity concerns in sustainable fisheries

The Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, in its tenth meeting, requested the Executive Secretary to collaborate with FAO, UNEP, regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs), IUCN-CEM-FEG, and other relevant organizations, processes, and scientific groups, o ...

Solving the puzzle: Social and cultural dimensions of marine and coastal protected areas

This side event focuses on the social and cultural dimensions of fishing communities in relation to marine and coastal protected areas

Sustainable Management of Coastal and marine biodiversity

Coastal and marine ecosystem provides considerable ecosystem services. Due to increased anthropogenic pressure and possible adverse impact of climate change conservation and sustainable utilization of these resources are of immense importance. Science based, people centric and process oriented i ...

East Asia coastal wetlands in ecological crisis

Recognizing the crucial need for improving marine habitats protection, the CBD approved at its COP4 the Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Programmes of Work, adopting the ecosystem approach as key for its implementation and recognizing the implication of the water cycle in sediment levels and ecos ...

Coastal and Marine Biodiversity and Coastal Area Management

Coastal environment plays a vital role in India’s economy by virtue of the resources, productive habitats and rich biodiversity. India’s coastline stretches about 8000 km and supports almost 30% of its human population. In the past decade, the degradation of the Indian coastline has reached al ...

Aichi Target 11 - Reshaping the agenda for Marine Protected Areas

During this event, we will provides a review of current MPA coverage (July 2012), showing dramatic increases in recent years. While this gives the impression that the 10% MPA target might be attainable, we revisit such information in the light of the Aichi Target 11 which introduces important n ...

Effects of sand mining on coastal biodiversity

The event includes presentations from Awaaz Foundation, Bombay Natural History Society and various organizations on the effects of sand mining on biodiversity in various parts of the world. Sand is a necessary component to fuel the construction boom and rapid pace of urbanization in many parts o ...

Coastal and Marine Issues

Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) in collaboration with Dakshin Foundation propose to present findings and lessons from position papers authored by experts on themes like coastal developments, coastal governance, mariculture, ecological concerns with invasive alien species, marine and coa ...

Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas

Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas

Green Economy, Oceans and SIDS

This event will discuss how the Green Economy approach for sustainable development can address some key biodiversity issues and also work towards biodiversity targets.

Sustainable Ocean Initiative (SOI) Capacity-Building Workshop for West Africa (14 to 18 January, 2013) and South-Eastern Atlantic Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs) (25 to 29 March, 2013)

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JL/JG/80877 (2012-134)
To: Regional seas conventions and action plans, regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs), and other relevant regional initiatives

Sustainable Ocean Initiative (SOI) Capacity-Building Workshop for West Africa (14 to 18 January, 2013) and South-Eastern Atlantic Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs) (25 to 29 March, 2013)

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JL/JG/80877 (2012-133)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points of Morocco, Mauritania, Cape Verde, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Namibia, and South Africa

UNEP/CBD/COP/11/INF/42

2012 Interim Status Report on the OSPAR Network of Marine Protected Areas

UNEP/CBD/COP/11/INF/38

Progress on Refining Descriptions of Areas Meeting EBSA Criteria in the North-East Atlantic

Press Release: How can we save the world’s oceans and coasts? Five countries’ ocean and coastal policies shortlisted for the 2012 Future Policy Award.

How can we save the world’s oceans and coasts? Five countries’ ocean and coastal policies shortlisted for the 2012 Future Policy Award

Hamburg/Montreal/Washington D.C./Rome, 28 August 2012 – Six policies from five countries are now shortlisted for the 2012 Future Policy Award, an international award that celebrates effective and exemplary policies. California (USA), Namibia, Palau, the Philippines, and South Africa are still in ...

Declaracion del Sr. Braulio Ferreira De Souza Dias, Secretario Ejecutivo del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biologica en ocasion del Taller regional del pacífico oriental tropical y templado para facilitar la descripción de áreas marinas de importancia ecológica o biológica, Galapagos, Ecuador, 28 Agosto 2012

Eastern Tropical and Temperate Pacific Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs)

27 - 31 August 2012, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

Yeosu Declaration Forum

12 August 2012, Yeosu, Republic of Korea

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Southern Indian Ocean Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas, Flic en Flac, Mauritius, 31 July 2012

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Southern Indian Ocean Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas, Flic en Flac, Mauritius, 31 July 2012

Southern Indian Ocean Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs)

30 July - 3 August 2012, Flic en Flac, Mauritius

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of FAO Regional Workshop on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMES) in the Indian Ocean, Flic en Flac, Mauritius, 25 July 2012

11th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties of the Ramsar Convention (COP-11)

6 - 13 July 2012, Bucharest, Romania

European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC) - 27th Session

11 - 15 June 2012, Hameenlinna, Finland

Press Release: Future Policy Award celebrates solutions to save oceans and coasts: 31 policies from 22 countries and regions nominated

Future Policy Award celebrates solutions to save oceans and coasts: 31 policies from 22 countries and regions nominated

Hamburg/Montreal/Washington D.C./Rome, 6 June 2012: The list of nominees for this year's Future Policy Award is complete: 31 outstanding policies from 22 countries and regions are in the running for the best policy worldwide to protect oceans and coasts.

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Sustainable Ocean Initiative High-Level Meeting, 5 June 2012, EXPO Hall, Yeosu, Republic of Korea