May 24th, 2013
2013-14 Fellows Observing AHWGH Meeting and taking notes for their report
[Carolina Quiroz, 13-14, Mexico] The meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole (AHWGW) of the Regular Process for the Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects took place from 22-26 April 2013 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. All 2013-14 Fellows observed the meeting and compiled this informal report: RP-WG_April-2013_Fellow_Report
The Experience of participating in a meeting where several countries were discussing main issues of the First Global Ocean Assessment allowed the fellows to better understand the process of multilateral negotiation to achieve consensus and collaboration that is needed to produce the Fisrt Global Ocean assessment in 2014.
The Division’s webpage for the Regular Process is HERE and it contains the Recommendations to the General Assembly of this meeting.
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May 24th, 2013
[Abbas] Upcoming conference on maritime security and piracy in Dar es Salaam Tanzania, 18-20 September 2013.
This conference will be a joint event between the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, the Faculty of the Royal Danish Defence College and the University of Dar es Salaam.
The event includes Prof Geoffrey Till of the UK, and Samuel Kame Domguio, coordinator of the Africa Union’s maritime strategy as keynote speakers, as well as 3 brief parallel workshops on the morning of day 3 regarding jurisdiction, development of coastal communities and the imperative of maritime leadership – all focussed upon eastern Africa.
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May 20th, 2013
- A Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socio-economic Aspects – The Regular Process ( Division’s URL).
Presentation: regular_process_2013.
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Oceans.
Presentations: GIS_oceans_2013_Part1 and GIS_oceans_2013_Part2.
- Piracy (Division’s URL), one on the Current Issues (Presentation: piracy_current-issues_2013) and the other on Legal Aspects (Presentation: piracy_legal_2013).
- Fisheries to come later this week…
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May 20th, 2013
The current fellows continue to hash out their thesis outlines, demonstrating more confidence in their ideas and thus in their structures. Big steps forward have been taken; many more smiles!
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May 20th, 2013
Dr. Hudson (UNDP/GEF) lectures on LMEs and EBM to 3013 Fellows
Dr. Andrew Hudson
Principal Technical Advisor, International Waters of the United Nations Development Programme – Global Environment Facility
Presented to the Fellows on: An Ecosystem-Based Approach to Management of LMEs: Experience of the Global Environment Facility (presentation here)
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