ISA Council meeting – november 2023
November 4, 2023
As negotiations resume in Kingston to continue the drafting of the mining code, discover Dr Catherine Blanchard’s day-to-day observations.
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As negotiations resume in Kingston to continue the drafting of the mining code, discover Dr Catherine Blanchard’s day-to-day observations.
The high seas treaty opened for signature on september 20th. It has already been signed by more than 70 states
SARGADOM team attended the ‘High Seas Treaty Symposium – from negotiation to implementation’ on 6-7 October 2023 in Edinburgh, UK.
The 1st Steering Committee Meeting for the Sargasso Sea GEF project was scheduled on October 4, 2023, and the 1st stakeholder Engagement Meeting for the project on the October 5, 2023, in Edinburgh, UK, in conjunction with the High Seas Symposium.
The International Seabed Authority is an International Organization based in Kingston. And it is under high pressure!
Its July negotiations on a Mining Code allowing the exploitation of seabed mineral resources just started.
After two days of fruitful discussion during the ABMTs in ABNJ workshop organized by IUCN & OFB with group discussion using a fictive site the transition was just right for the SARGADOM steering committee.
End of June, the SARGADOM project hosted its second steering committee meeting in conjunction with the IUCN high seas ABMTs workshop in Gland, Switzerland.
Adopted in Montreal last 19 December 2022, the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework includes several objectives and targets that cover the Ocean and coasts and aimed at transforming the way these ecosystems are managed. Their implementation however raises many challenges and requires, in particular, to integrate the GBF into intergovernmental marine-related organisations and to pay special attention to the high seas.
The fifth edition of the IMPAC5 Congress dedicated to Marine Protected Areas took place in Vancouver from 3 to 9 February 2022 under the auspices of IUCN.
The Our Ocean Conferences were created to build partnerships between government, industry, science and civil society. Voluntary commitments are the core of the Our Ocean conferences, created to generate significant and meaningful actions towards a clean, healthy and productive ocean.
SARGADOM attended the new round of negotiations on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction.
The POGO-24 meeting was postes by IFREMER (French National Institute for Ocean Science) in Toulon, France, from 23-26 January 2023.
SARGADOM is a research projet that aims to contribute to a hybrid governance to protect and manage two remarkable areas of the high seas
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