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Regular process for global reporting
and assessment of the state of the
marine environment,
including socio-economic aspects
Chile Workshop 13 – 15
September
Questions to be
answered by the First
Integrated Assessment
Regular process for global reporting and assessment of the state
of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects
Remit
UNGA endorsed in resolution 64/71, and reaffirmed
in resolution 65/37, the recommendations of the
AHWGW that the output of the first cycle of the
Regular Process (by 2014) should be:
 an integrated assessment of the oceans
 agreed priority cross-cutting thematic issues
such as food security
 a baseline for future global assessments.
Regular process for global reporting and assessment of the state
of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects
Proposed Outline
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Summary for decision-makers
The Context of the Assessment
Ecosystem Services
Cross-cutting question – food security
Other human activities
Biodiversity and habitats
Overall evaluations
Regular process for global reporting and assessment of the state
of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects
II. The Context of the Assessment
1. Planet, oceans and life - a broad,
introductory survey of the role played by
the oceans and seas in the life of the
planet, the way in which they function,
and humans’ relationships to them.
2. Mandate, information sources, and
method of work
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of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects
III. Ocean services
• Hydrological cycle
– sea level, salinity, nutrients, heat transport
• Sea/air interaction
– air quality, meteorologicalI events, acidification
• Primary production
– distribution, causes and effects, surface layer
• Aesthetic, religious and spiritual ecosystem
services
• Scientific understanding and conclusion
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IV. Food security
Identified by AHWGW as a possible crosscutting issue
• Oceans and seas as source of food
• Capture fisheries
• Aquaculture
• Seaweeds and other sea-based food
• Social and economic aspects of fisheries
• Conclusions
Regular process for global reporting and assessment of the state
of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects
IV. Human Activities
Which activities to examine?
1. Is the activity important for the world’s
economies or for human society?
2. Could the activity threaten marine
ecologies?
Regular process for global reporting and assessment of the state
of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects
Human activities – what to look at?
For each of 15 activities, look at
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location and scale of impacts,
employment and economic and social role
environmental threats,
links to other activities,
capacity-building needs
(extent of discussion of policy aspects and
management still to be settled)
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of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects
The 15 activities
Shipping
Ports
Submarine cables & pipelines
Land-based inputs
Offshore hydrocarbon industries
Other marine-based energy
Offshore mining
Use of Genetic resources
Defence
Solid waste disposal
Marine debris
Physical changes
Tourism& recreation
Desalinization
Scientific research
Regular process for global reporting and assessment of the state
of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects
VI. Biodiversity and Habitats
• Not feasible to look at everything
• Overall assessment of biodiversity
• Survey of issues judged to need special
treatment
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of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects
Overall assessment of biodiversity
• Main gradients of diversity for species,
communities and habitats (coastal to abyssal,
equatorial to polar, substrate type, salinity).
• Extent of assessment of marine biological
diversity
• Overall status of major groups of species and
habitats (Summary, by major group and marine
region, of the status, trends and threats,
including the cumulative effects of pressures)
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of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects
Aspects identified for special
protection
• Ecologically and Biologically Sensitive
Areas (EBSAs) and Vulnerable Marine
Ecosystems (VMEs)
• Other species and habitats identified by a
competent authority as needing protection
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of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects
“Other species and habitats”
• Inter-regional migratory species (Bonn
Convention)
• Regional conventions (Marine mammals)
• Action under regional seas programmes
• National action
Regular process for global reporting and assessment of the state
of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects
VII. Overall evaluations
• What can we say about the overall human
impact on the seas?
– baseline for comparison in future Assessments
• How do we value the benefits from the oceans
and seas for humans?
– baseline for comparison in future Assessments