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Sustainable Seas
Marine assessment capacity building in a global perspective
Wouter Rommens
Capacity Development Consultant
UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Norway
GRID-Arendal
• UNEP Collaborating Centre
• UNEP’s Polar Centre
• Non profit, administratively
independent institution, founded in
1989 by the Norwegian Ministry of
Environment to support UNEP and
other UN agencies
• Partnerships under development:
World Bank, Commonwealth
Secretariat, International Seabed
Authority
Our mission is to create environmental
knowledge enabling positive change.
This is achieved by organizing and transforming
available environmental data into credible,
science-based information products,
delivered through innovative
communication tools and capacity-building
services targeting relevant stakeholders.
UNEP Shelf
Programme
MANDATE FROM GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
“Calls upon the UNEP, working within the Global Resource Information Database (GRID) system for data and
information management, to expand on a voluntary basis the capacity of existing GRID centres to store and
handle research data from the outer continental margin, on a basis to be mutually agreed with the coastal
State, and complementary to existing regional data centers, giving due regard to confidentiality needs and
in accordance with Part XIII of the Convention, and making use of existing data management mechanisms
under the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the International Hydrographic
Organisation, with a view to serving the needs of coastal States, and in particular developing countries and
small island developing States, in their compliance with article 76 of the Convention;”
2002
”One Stop Data Shop” :
data mining and access
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Most comprehensive global geospatial and metadata inventory of
marine geophysical and geological data;
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Public sector partnership
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On-line data inventory: tracklines with metadata
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Support to 70 developing States
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Custom assistance and training for over 30 States
Sustainable Seas
Building further on the UNEP Shelf Programme
UNEP Shelf
Programme
Sustainable Seas
Programme
Delineation of outer limits of continental shelf
Ecosystem-based Management (EbM) of EEZ
SIDS targeted capacity development
Projects with North-South and South-South expertise
exchange
Role of marine assessments in EbM
• Articulate goals, desired
outcomes and indicators
• Set targets and decision
thresholds for ecosystem
outcome indicators
• Derive management actions
& objectives
• Implement management
actions
• Secure adequate funding for
all cycle phases plus
research
• Propose future management
options
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Plan
Manage
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Assess
• Identify success/failure of
meeting ecosystem targets
• Evaluate performance of
system-wide model
• Forecast change in
ecosystem services based
upon plausible management
scanarios
Monitor
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• Implement monitoring
strategy
• Store data in accessible
formats
• Propose future network
improvement
Relevant, credible and useful
information for policy- and decision
makers and the public
Awareness raising on environmental
issues
Support evidence-based environmental
management decisions
Gap identification
OSDS Geophysical
data
State of the Marine Environment
webplatform (pilot)
Sustainable Seas
Direct and indirect linking to the UN Regular Process
1. Cooperation with COBSEA and NOWPAP
2. Cooperation with Abidjan Convention
Sustainable Seas
UN Regular Process Workshop (Sanya, China)
Regional Scientific and Technical Capacity Building Workshop on the Regular
Process of the World Ocean Assessment; Bangkok 17–19 September 2012
I. To strengthen and promote regional cooperation towards the Regular Process of the World Ocean
Assessment.
II. To assist, as an initial attempt, in capacity building of NOWPAP, COBSEA and WESTPAC member countries
to conduct the integrated marine assessments;
III. To contribute to the global Regular Process of the World Ocean Assessment through the
provision of an initial ‘regional trial assessment’ and of a new regional methodology for
multi-disciplinary marine assessments.
Capacity building for marine assessments
Cooperation with UNEP Abidjan Convention
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Convention for the Co-operation in the Protection and
Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the
West and Central African Region (Abidjan Convention).
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22 states
MOU GRID-Arendal – Abidjan Convention
Focus on environmental aspects of the offshore oil and gas
sector
Capacity building for marine assessments
Cooperation with Abidjan Convention
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Lack of data
Different methodologies
Irregular or no national marine assessments
Lack of capacity
Lack of awareness/no link with policy level/decision making level
Capacity building for marine assessments
Cooperation with Abidjan Convention
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Sustainable Seas Abidjan Convention
Pilot workshop (Grand-Bassam, Cote
d’Ivoire, 18-21 June 2012)
Development of programme framework
Focus on EbM cycle and marine
assessments
Representatives of IMR, ODINAFRICA,
WWF
Representatives of 18 member states
First steps: template development/marine assessments
Awareness raising workshops policy makers/decision makers
Monitoring
Fisheries
Data Management
Marine assessments
Pollution
Data integration
SoME
EbM
Physicochemical
Data storage
UN Regular Process
Data formatting
Data analysis
Other data
Policy decisions
CBD-EBSA
Indicators
…
Outreach and
communication
Thank you !
Questions
Visiting address
The UN House
Teaterplassen 3
N-4836 Arendal
Norway
Telephone:
+47 47 64 45 55
Fax:
+47 37 03 50 50
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.grida.no