http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2012/02/the-tara-oceans-expedition-press-conference.html

The regional rep. is a volunteer job and its duties include:

1. acting as the focal point for his/her region and coordinating with the alumni therein

2. providing at least 4 articles for the newsletter (in addition to obtaining some other articles by the alumni from his/her region)

3. helping incoming fellows from his/her region with general aspects and coordinating their participation whenever needed

4. regularly “feeding” our communication tools (facebook page, yahoo group, website) with current information from their region, even small updates or news items

5. mobilizing interests and proposing projects for the region

6. keeping the overall alumni body through the rep updated with current information of his/her region

7. etc

Regional reps are intended to meet once a year and the meeting shall take place in a given region. Meetings venue will change every year in a rotation system so the alumni in that specific region can have their regional meeting together with the reps from all other regions. In this context we can have regional meetings and the reps from other meetings can provide useful information to be shared.

The reps are allowed to appoint a deputy to respond in their absence.

The regions initially identified – based on common ocean interests and geography – are as follows:

Region #1 South East Asia (west up to, but not including, Myanmar and east including Indonesia and Philippines)

Region #2 Pacific Islands

Region #3 South America

Region #4 Caribbean, Central America and Mexico

Region #5 West Africa and Atlantic Ocean Islands

Region #6 East Africa and Indian Ocean Islands

Region #7 Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Seas

Region #8 Arabian Peninsula

Region #9 Indian Sub-Continent and Bay of Bengal

These regions will be flexible, and activities beyond the regional meetings of the alumni will NOT BE LIMITED to any specific region: e.g. if we have a piracy programme, it would be across all regions concerned and include alumni who wish.

Potential candiates should apply via email (or yahoo group) to the General Alumni Representative until February 17th.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/06/it-s-time-bring-end-border-dilemmas.html

http://www.un.org/Depts/los/global_reporting/global_reporting.htm

Also check out the PDF brochure on the call for experts:
http://www.un.org/Depts/los/global_reporting/Call_for_Experts.pdf

http://www.science2action.org/features-mainmenu-47/global

Programme and Background under "more"

11 – 11:15am  Opening Remarks
• H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the General Assembly
• H.E. Mr.Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary-General 

11:15am – 12:50pm  Moderated by H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, 
President of the General Assembly

I. H.E. Mrs. Tarja Halonen, President of Finland and GSP Co-Chair
II. H.E. Mr. Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa and GSP Co-Chair (by video)
III. H.E. Mr. Kevin Rudd, Foreign Minister of Australia (by video)
IV. H.E. Mrs. Luisa Diogo, former PM of Mozambique

12:50 – 1pm  Closing Remarks
• H.E. Mrs. Tarja Halonen, President of Finland and Co-Chair of the Global Sustainability Panel
• H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser , President of the General Assembly

The Interactive Dialogue with the Global Sustainability Panel offers an
opportunity for Member States to hear some initial views of the Panel members
on the work of the Panel so far as well as to share their suggestions. 

Background
The Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP)
is currently drafting its final report and will have its last meeting in November 2011,
before handing the report to the Secretary-General in January 2012.
Co-chaired by H.E. Mrs. Tarja Halonen, President of Finland, and
H.E. Mr. Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, the GSP is looking into
cross-cutting strategies to address the interconnected sustainability
challenges of today and tomorrow.  The final report will feed into relevant
intergovernmental discussions such as the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development (Rio+20). 

For more information about the Global Sustainability Panel,
including detailed reports about its prior meetings, please visit
www.un.org/en/gsp as well as http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article3257.

The current issue of our Newsletter is now available here.

Please feel free to distribute it to whoever might be interested. And enjoy it!

Join me in welcoming the new batch of Fellows to the family!

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