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Institutions Working
Group
Arvis, Causey, Golitsyn, Gallardo, Fandino,
Johnson, Kimball, Mengerink, Robles, Rosenberg,
Rovira, Searles, Stocks, Wesson
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Urgency: irreversible change
Apparent broad scale and localized losses
Emerging uses
Increasing pressures (e.g. population,
property issues, climate change)
• Potential for feedback from loss of
biodiversity/ecosystem functioning to
climate change
• Existing framework apparently inadequate
Unknown
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Capacity
Political will
Best practices
Appropriate scales
Needed innovation
New instruments or arrangements
Unknowable
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Irreversible losses
Political climate
Risk to ecosystem services
Course changing events
Success
FAO, UNCLOS, WTO…
UNFSA, HSC, CBD,
Ramsar, Kyoto, ...
Goal Development:
conservation & sustainable use of marine biodiversity
• International overarching goal
– Includes national jurisdictions and areas beyond national
jurisdications
– Describes principles for conservation and sustainable use
• Based on ecosystem approach to management
• Integral to social and economic sustainable development
• Intended to apply across sectors (e.g., fisheries, shipping,
coastal development, pollution)
• Focus on gaps in existing frameworks ( e.g., interactions,
cumulative effects)
• Provides a framework for collaboration among existing
mechanisms
• Includes precautionary approach
• Inspire political will
Regional Ecosystembased Management
• Operationalize goals through principles and norms
• Build on existing international and regional instruments and
mechanisms
• Develop new mechanisms and approaches
• Maintain or strengthen sectoral goals for management
• Base boundaries on ecological principles (e.g., LME’s plus
high seas areas)
• Recognize the transboundary nature of diversity
• Create coordinating mechanism
• Include adaptive management
Ecosystem-Based
Management
• Evaluate and address interactions between
sectoral effects
• Evaluate and address cumulative impacts of human
activities on the marine environment with regard
to marine biodiversity
• Coordinate planning and management activities for
multiple objectives
• Inform, disseminate and educate
• Perform governance scenario analysis
Implementation Issues
• Commit resources
• Incorporate capacity building mechanism
• Develop integrated assessment and monitoring by
independent body
– Cross sectors
– Focus on ecosystem services
– Address goal of conservation and sustainable use of marine
biodiversity
– Supported by GEOSS and other observation systems
– Regularly (continuously) updated
– Include biodiversity in climate change scenarios
• Create compliance and enforcement mechanisms
– Standards and norms as a basis
– Accountability mechanism
Implementation Issues…
• Incorporate performance review mechanism
– Based on clear objectives, strategies and tactics
– Adaptive management
• Create appropriate incentive structure
– Encourage innovative solutions (e.g. restoration)
• Spatial and temporal concerns
– Governance at local, national, regional and international
levels must be linked
– Rapid action on priority areas to conserve diversity (stop
gap measures)
– Take action even with uncertain information
(precautionary approach)
– Timely management response to new information
– Apply short, medium and long term strategies
Implementation issues…
• Need for identification of reference points and
reference areas (MPA’s)
– Identify for protection hotspot areas and those with
fuller range of ecosystem services intact
– Identify for protection areas at risk
– Protected areas need to be of a sufficient size that
they are meaningful on an ecosystem scale, linked
networks
• Raising public awareness
• Communicating importance of overarching goals of
conserving ecosystem services
– within and between local, national, regional and
international levels
– use of new technologies
– Strategic communication (recognize audiences, messages
and timeliness)