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#1336Meeting of the Open-Ended Informal Consultative Process for Oceans and the Law of the Sea
2 - 6 June 2003, New York, United States of America
Meeting
#1409Meeting of the National Focal Points of the Mediterranean Action Plan
15 - 18 September 2003, Athenes, Greece
Meeting
#5894Meeting of the Informal Advisory Committee to the Clearing-House Mechanism
17 - 19 June 2019, Montreal, Canada
News Headlines
#1231792019-11-29
Mediterranean marine protection failing as 2020 deadline looms
A new WWF report shows that Mediterranean countries are failing on their global commitment to protect at least 10% of marine and coastal areas, and to stop ongoing biodiversity loss in the region.
Notification
#21382014-01-22
Action by
2014-02-20
Mediterranean Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs), 7 to 11 April 2014, Málaga, Spain
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/JL/JG/83051 (2014-009)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points in the Mediterranean region: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, the European Community, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey; Mediterranean Action Plan; relevant regional fisheries management organizations; and other relevant regional organizations/initiatives
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Meeting
#5362Mediterranean Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs)
7 - 11 April 2014, Málaga, Spain
News Headlines
#1191812018-12-21
Measuring individual argon atoms helps in understanding ocean ventilation
The age of the water in the world's oceans is critical for understanding ocean circulation, especially for the transport of gases from the atmosphere into the deep ocean. Researchers from Heidelberg University recently used an atomic physics technique they developed to determine the age of deep ...
News Headlines
#1320542021-12-06
Measures in place to preserve marine environment, maintain water quality
The Water Quality Section at Environmental Monitoring and Laboratory Department of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change is implementing a number of projects to preserve marine environment and maintain water quality in Qatar.
News Headlines
#1258492020-11-25
Massive Swarm of Eels Is The Most Fish Ever Recorded at The Bottom of The Ocean
Before we start mining for precious metals in the darkness of the deep sea, we might try switching on the light first and observing our surroundings. In this seemingly isolated abyss, at deeper than 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) below sea level, scientists were able to coax a massive swarm of 115 cutt ...
News Headlines
#1193572019-01-14
Massive Drought Leaves Over One Million Dead Fish Carcasses Reeking And Rotting In 'Major Ecological Event
Drought has killed up to one million fish in Australia, leaving the country’s government grappling with how to deal with what have been described as apocalyptic scenes. Rotten fish are lining the banks of the Murray-Darling Basin in New South Wales, with the regional government saying that the s ...
News Headlines
#1334162022-02-22
Marine scientists keep their ears to the ocean
Scientists are collecting the sounds of the sea to help get a picture of the biodiversity challenges marine life in New Zealand faces. The ocean is louder than you think.
News Headlines
#1212832019-06-12
Marine reserves work as they protect the oldest and largest animals
After centuries of fishing we do not know what natural conditions are. Only marine reserves will give us such insights
News Headlines
#1354022022-07-20
Marine ranching helps restore biodiversity in south China island
When Wang Aimin, then a professor of oceanic science at Hainan University, started helping with marine ranching by dropping artificial reefs into seawater in 2011, he was ridiculed by local divers.
News Headlines
#1216762019-07-23
Marine heatwaves in a changing climate
Heatwaves in the ocean can rapidly disrupt marine ecosystems and the economies that depend on them.
News Headlines
#1304072021-09-14
Marine experts flag new Peru marine reserve that allows industrial fishing
When Peru declared the creation of the Nazca Ridge National Reserve in the country’s southern waters this past June, it also increased — in one fell swoop — the proportion of its maritime area under protection from less than 1% to nearly 8%. But the move has sparked an outcry from conservationis ...
News Headlines
#1348302022-06-02
Marine biologists scramble to stop a deadly epidemic decimating coral reefs
Coral reefs around the world are in growing danger due to rising temperatures connected with climate change. But in Florida and the Caribbean, marine biologists are racing to fight a new deadly threat. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports.
News Headlines
#1219032019-08-15
Marine biologist says keeping oceans healthy more critical than ever
SYDNEY, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. marine biologist and ocean explorer Sylvia Earle told Australian audiences that keeping the oceans healthy is more critical now than ever.
Recommendation
SBSTTA 16#13055
Recommendation XVI/6
Marine biodiversity: marine spatial planning and voluntary guidelines for the consideration of biodiversity in environmental impact ssessments and strategic environmental assessments in marine and coastal areas
News Headlines
#1283302021-04-28
Marine biodiversity: Enormous variety of animal life in the deep sea revealed
Ecologists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology have for the first time demonstrated the enormously high and also very specific species diversity of the deep sea in a comparison of 20 deep-sea basins in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Over a period of 20 years, a research team le ...
Recommendation
SBSTTA 6#7033
Recommendation VI/2
Marine and coastal biological diversity: progress report on the implementation of the programme of work, including the integration of coral reefs
Recommendation
SBSTTA 5#7023
Recommendation V/6
Marine and coastal biological diversity: implementation tools for the programme of work and analysis of coral bleaching
Recommendation
SBSTTA 11#10967
Recommendation XI/8
Marine and coastal biological diversity: conservation and sustainable use of deep seabed genetic resources beyond the limits of national jurisdiction
Recommendation
SBSTTA 16#13054
Recommendation XVI/5
Marine and coastal biodiversity: sustainable fisheries and addressing adverse impacts of human activities on marine and coastal biodiversity
Recommendation
SBSTTA-18#13329
Recommendation XVIII/4
Marine and coastal biodiversity: other matters
Recommendation
SBSTTA 16#13053
Recommendation XVI/4
Marine and coastal biodiversity: ecologically or biologically significant marine areas
Recommendation
SBSTTA-18#13328
Recommendation XVIII/3
Marine and coastal biodiversity: ecologically or biologically significant marine areas
Recommendation
SBSTTA 8#7056
Recommendation VIII/3
Marine and coastal biodiversity: review, further elaboration and refinement of the programme of work
Side Event
#2054COP 10
2010-10-28
Marine and Coastal protected Areas towards a better Governance of the Mediterranean
This side event aims at sharing the efforts of the Mediterranean region under the aegis of UNEP/MAP in making the Millenium Development Goals with regard to the protection of biodiversity and the creation of marine protected areas a reality in the Mediterranean region. 60 min event, including: ...
News Headlines
#1209262019-05-02
Marine Virus Survey Reveals Biodiversity Hot Spots
Ocean samples collected from around the world produced a twelvefold increase in the number of marine viruses known.
Side Event
#2465SBSTTA 16
2012-05-02
Marine Spatial Planning and Management using the Ecosystem Approach: From Principles to Practice
This side-event will present findings of the Synthesis Document on the Experience and Use of Marine Spatial Planning (UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/16/INF/18), and initiate a discussion on the necessary strategies and activities to build on the successes of MSP around the world. This event is being convened j ...
Side Event
#3032ICNP 3
2014-02-27
Marine Genetic Resources and the Nagoya Protocol: Preparing the Marine Scientific Community
The oceans cover more that 70% of the Earth’s surface, harbour more than 95% of its biosphere and are home to more than 34 of the 36 living animal phyla. Its enormous biological diversity makes the marine environment a vast and unique reservoir of undiscovered genetic information and biochemical ...
Meeting
#2232Marine Ecological Experts Workshop
2 - 4 November 2005, Ottawa, Canada
News Headlines
#1244482020-03-02
Marine Conservation Methods Paying Dividends In Oracabessa Bay
On Jamaica’s north coast, Oracabessa Bay’s biodiversity sustains its natural beauty and bounty, in addition to a sustainable source of income for those who learn how to dwell in harmony with nature. Ahead of tomorrow’s World Wildlife Day, Oracabessa Bay sits as a nesting site for the endangered ...
News Headlines
#1317072021-11-16
Marine Biologists are Making Efforts to Save Coral Reefs in Mariana Islands
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA), the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands' southern islands include some of the archipelago's oldest and most developed reefs, while the island of Saipan has one of the most diversified kinds of coral reefs and relate ...
Press Release
#793112011-05-20
Marine Biodiversity, Theme for the 2012 International Day for Biological Diversity
Montreal, 20 May 2011 – Challenges facing marine biodiversity are unprecedented. Life in the oceans is under serious threats. Continuously increasing human impacts in coastal areas have destroyed over 65% of seagrass and wetland habitat, degraded water quality and accelerated species invasions. ...
Side Event
#2783COP 11
2012-10-19
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 ...
News Headlines
#1202682019-03-07
Manmade coral reefs and Seabins: The best green innovations to mark the World Ocean Summit
Leaders from around the world have convened for the sixth World Ocean Summit in Abu Dhabi (5-7 March). The three-day conference has seen more than 75 influential speakers implore more than 400 guests from business, government and technology spheres to alleviate some of the key strains damaging t ...
News Headlines
#1218772019-08-13
Mangroves: a Super Solution
Mangroves are an amazing #ClimateAction Super Solution, they are effective carbon sinks, storing four times more CO2 than rainforests.
News Headlines
#1216832019-07-24
Mangrove conservation more valuable than ever thanks to carbon trading
When a proven ecosystem restoration method also helps reduce poverty and build economic resilience, governments will often back them as a win-win solution.
News Headlines
#1303022021-09-07
Manatee deaths in Florida point to a global decline in seagrass ecosystems
In July 2021, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced that 866 West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus) had died in the state of Florida in the first seven months of the year alone. The news shocked and saddened many Floridians, for whom the gentle, slow-moving mammal is a statewide mascot, ...
Side Event
#3212COP 12
2014-10-15
Managing coastal marine biodiversity in India: Can participatory approaches make a difference?
Protection of biodiversity in India has a long tradition with some remarkable success when it comes to terrestrial ecosystems. Similar efforts for marine areas along the coast proved to be much more difficult, mainly because of the enormous pressure on natural resources exerted by an ever increa ...
News Headlines
#1224792019-10-02
Maldives coral reefs show signs of resilience and recovery
Corals reefs in the Maldives are showing signs of resilience, adaptation and recovery from the effects of climate change, an annual survey has found. The survey was conducted in a 250km area in the central atolls by Biosphere Expeditions, Marine Conservation Society, Reef Check Maldives and loca ...
News Headlines
#1238402020-01-21
Malaysia plans to do more to protect our coral reefs and marine life
Malaysia has an extensive coastline of 4,675km in total and is hemmed in on all sides by seas – the Straits of Malacca, the Sulu Sea, the South China Sea and the Andaman Sea. And all these waters are located within the Coral Triangle, a rich marine ecosystem with nearly 600 species of corals and ...
News Headlines
#1267312021-01-27
Major discovery helps explain coral bleaching
An EPFL scientist has made a major breakthrough in the understanding of coral bleaching – a process that causes corals to lose their color and eventually leads to their death. The process is triggered by warmer ocean temperatures, and, according to the study, it begins much earlier than previous ...
Side Event
#3250COP 12
2014-10-08
MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING IN PRACTICE – TRANSITIONING FROM PLANNING TO IMPLEMENTATION IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS
ABSTRACT: Marine spatial planning (MSP) can cover a broad range of initiatives that aim to maintain the use of resources and ecosystem services through careful planning of available coastal or ocean space - essentially any effort that attempts to reconcile more than one sector’s development obje ...
Side Event
#3177COP 12
2014-10-10
MARINE BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE IN CORAL REEF AND ASSOCIATED ECOSYSTEMS
This side event will highlight the efforts of the GEF partnership to contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of coral reef and associated ecosystems and the achievement of the related Aichi Targets and provide an overview of programming opportunities within the GEF-6 biodiversity stra ...
Side Event
#3110COP 12
2014-10-10
MANAGING CORAL REEFS FOR RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE - PROGRESS MADE AND KEY PRIORITIES TOWARDS MEETING AICHI TARGET 10
The event will share information on coral reef planning and management approaches that safeguard or enhance coral reef resilience to increasing threats from climate change. Through presentations and panel discussion the event will review experiences and progress made, and discuss further actions ...
News Headlines
#1205972019-04-01
Lord Howe Island coral bleaching 'most severe we've ever seen', scientists say
Researchers have documented what they are describing as the most severe coral bleaching to hit the world’s southern-most reef at Lord Howe Island.
News Headlines
#1224172019-09-27
Longest coral reef survey to date reveals major changes in Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Coral reefs around the world are under increasing stress due to a combination of local and global factors. As such, long-term investigation is becoming increasingly important to understanding ecosystem responses.
News Headlines
#1225512019-10-07
Literature sheds light on the history and mystery of the Southern Ocean
If you look at a globe, you'll see that the Southern Hemisphere is bluer than the Northern Hemisphere. A huge 80% of it is ocean compared to 60% of the North.