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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 • Most comprehensive global geospatial and metadata inventory of marine geophysical and geological data; • Public sector partnership • On-line data inventory: tracklines with metadata • Support to 70 developing States • 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 • Plan Manage • • 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 • • 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 • 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). • • • 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 - 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 • • • • • 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