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Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI)Working towards high seas conservation
Kristina Maria Gjerde
IUCN High Seas Policy Advisor
UNICPOLOS 11 June 21, 2010
Credit: John Weller, [email protected] Credit: Robert L. Pitman (NOAA)
Credit: Sarah Gotheil, IUCN
Credit_Deep Atlantic Stepping Stones Science
Team_IFE_URI_NOAA_no3
Credit: Imène Meliane, IUCN Photo Library Credit: John Weller, [email protected] Credit: John Weller, [email protected]
Credit: John Weller, [email protected]: John Weller, [email protected]: John Weller, [email protected]
DEEP SEA, OPEN OCEAN
Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA
95% of the planet, less than 1% explored….Institute of Marine Reserach, Bergen, Norway
CRUCIAL ROLE OF HEALTHY OCEANS IN CLIMATE CHANGE
• Absorbed 95% of sun’s radiation
• Removed 25% of CO2 between 2000-2007
Main buffer to climate change and will likely bear greatest burden of impacts
Ocean health influences the capacity of oceans to absorb carbon
FAO, CBD, UNEP, UNDP, World Bank et al.,
2009, Fisheries and Aquaculture in our
Changing Climate
ftp://ftp.fao.org/FI/brochure/climate_change
/policy_brief.pdf hanging Climate
HIGH SEAS, THE SEABED “AREA”
CBD COP9 Decision 20 (2008)Annex I: Site Criteria
“Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas” (EBSAs)
1. Uniqueness / rarity
2. Special importance for life history of species
3. Importance for threatened, endangered or declining species / habitats
4. Vulnerability, fragility, sensitivity, or slow recovery
5. Biological productivity
6. Biological diversity
7. Naturalness Credit: Deep Atlantic Stepping Stones Science Team_IFE_URI_NOAA
CBD COP9 Decision 20 (2008)Annex II: MPA Network Guidance
1. EBSAs (site criteria)
2. Representativity
3. Connectivity
4. Replication
5. Adequacy / viability
Credit: Deep Atlantic Stepping Stones Science Team_IFE_URI_NOAA
UN WORKING GROUP February 2010:
on Area-based Management
• Recognize the importance of establishing MPAs consistent with international law and based on scientific information, including representative networks by 2012;
• Call upon states to work through competent international organizations towards the development of a common methodology for the identification and selection of marine areas that may benefit from protection based on existing criteria, with a view to facilitating achievement of the 2012 MPA target
UN WORKING GROUP February 2010:
on Environmental Impact Assessments
• Recognize the importance of EIA, in particular for the implementation of the ecosystem and precautionary approaches;
• Request information on EIA undertaken for planned activities in ABNJ, including capacity-building needs,
• Recognize the importance of further developing scientific and technical guidance on the implementation of EIA on planned activities in ABNJ, including consideration of assessments of cumulative impacts.
CBD SBSTTA RECOMMENDATIONS to the 10th Conference of Parties
May 2010
• Prepare guidelines on EIAs and SEAs
• Adopt guidance on identification of significant areas
• Urge cooperation to identify and protect significant areas
• Outline process to create global inventory of significant areas
• Convene /sponsor regional workshops
• Build capacity development tools
©Larry Madin
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
LINKING SCIENCE TO POLICY
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INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE
Credit: Lisa Morse, Marine Photobank
LINKING COASTS TO HIGH SEAS
New ways of observing the living ocean
Tagging and tracking large predators across the Pacific (www.TOPP.org)
EBSA ILLUSTRATIONS
Credit: Pat Halpin, MGEL
GLOBAL OCEAN BIODIVERSITY INITIATIVE
INITIATIVE BACKGROUND
International partnership advancing the scientific basis for conservingbiological diversity in the deep seas and open oceans
Builds on the CBD scientific criteria adopted at CBD COP 9 in 2008
Helps to identify ecologically or biologically significant marine areas(EBSA) in need of protection beyond national jurisdiction
Supported by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Environment, NatureConservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU) during the German Presidency ofthe CBD
INITIATIVE STRUCTURE
IUCN
Coordination
Advisory Board
SCBDFAOGEFIMO
IOCISAUNEPUNDP
Science Board
AquaMapsBirdLife InternationalCensus of Marine Life
CenSeamCSIRO
Duke University, MGELIOC/UNESCO
MCBIOBISTOPP
UNEP-WCMCUNU-IAS
Data,
Research,
EBSA
Analyses &
Meta-analyses
EBSA ANALYSES and MAPS
To be presented at:
- CBD SBSTTA 14 (2010)
- CBD COP 10 (2010)
- CBD COP 11 (2012)
GOBI BROCHURE « Working Towards High Seas Conservation »
Robert Pitman, NOAA
THANK YOU!
www.iucn.org/marine
www.GOBI.org
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Carole Durussel
• Patricio Bernal
• Anna Rulska-Domino
• And the many GOBI partners
• Supported by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) with funds from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
