Making Ocean Life Count: High Level Policy Briefings Meryl Williams Scientific Steering Committee

Making Ocean Life Count Key Policy Targets Priority events calendar Objectives, teams for each event The event template What you can do

Making Ocean Life Count I.Focus on oceans Supporting a greater policy focus on the oceans and marine life II.High seas Inputs to UN policies to protect the oceans beyond national jurisdictions III.Marine biodiversity Ensuring ocean observing systems fully incorporate marine biodiversity

I. Focus on Oceans Supporting a greater policy focus on the oceans and marine life

Briefing for IUCN council Promote the importance of marine biodiversity conservation in the IUCN program by informing IUCN Councillors on Census findings TBD, IUCN and others

BiomarineBiomarine Highlight the importance of marine life by promoting the Census findings to the private sector (Biomarine - ‘the Davos of the sea’) (tentative) Myriam Sibuet (coordinator to be confirmed)

UNSG’s Report to the General Assembly on Oceans and Law of the Sea Highlight the significance of marine life by working through UN agencies to achieve substantial references to the Census findings in the 2010 SGs report Meryl Williams (coordinator), Secretariat, Jim Baker, Jesse Ausubel Coordinating Body: United Nations

2012 International Biodiversity Day Achieve recognition of the importance of marine life by having the theme of World Biodiversity Day 2012 declared as ‘Marine Biodiversity’ (first non-terrestrial theme) Meryl Williams (coordinator), Victor Gallardo, others TBD Coordinating Body: Convention on Biological Diversity

II. High Seas Inputs to UN policies to protect the oceans beyond national jurisdictions

FAO Committee on Fisheries 2009 Improve information base for area-based fisheries management and marine conservation by highlighting relevance of Census findings and technologies Serge Garcia, Ron Odor, Jason Hall- Spencer (Censeam), Kristina Gjerde (IUCN), CBD (tba) Coordinating Body: United Nations

IUCN HS Ecologically and Biologically Sensitive Areas Improve decisions of CBD-COP10 by providing IUCN workshop with Census scientific information to identify potential high seas MPA regions Secretariat (coordinator), other project contacts (probably from deep sea, TOPP), Alex Rogers, Edward Vanden Berghe Coordinating Body: International Union for the Conservation of Nature

CBD-SBSTTA 14 Improve SBSTTA advice on marine biodiversity conservation to CBD-COP10 by providing Census information Meryl Williams (coordinator - tentative), Shira, Victor Gallardo, others TBD Coordinating Body: Convention on Biological Diversity

CBD-COP10CBD-COP10 Support scientific base for COP10 decisions especially relating to protection of marine biodiversity in high seas areas Y. Shirayama (coordinator), others to be determined Coordinating Body: Convention on Biological Diversity

III. Marine Biodiversity Ensuring ocean observing systems fully incorporate marine biodiversity

UN Assessment of Assessments Ensure the proposed Global Marine Assessment has access to best available marine biodiversity knowledge by contributing Census knowledge Ron Odor, Meryl Williams Coordinating Body: United Nations

World Ocean Conference Enrich decision-makers’ knowledge of marine biodiversity by exposing Census findings and technologies, with special emphasis on the Coral Triangle Initiative and climate change Ian Poiner (coordinator), Tonny Wagey, Jesse Ausubel, Meryl Williams Coordinating Body: Indonesian Government, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries

OceanObsOceanObs Ensure 10 year plans for global ocean observing systems incorporate marine life fully by contributing Census findings and technologies Secretariat w/ POGO and SCOR Tech Panel (Ed Urban) Organizing Body: IOC-UNESCO and Ecological Society of America (ESA)

GEF-IW Biennial Conference Ensure that GEF-IW projects and GEF agencies improve their ability to monitor and assess marine life by providing access to Census findings and technologies (info, tracking, genetic, remote sensing) Meryl Williams (coordinator), David Farmer, Carlo Heip, Ian Poiner, Tonny Wagey (some tbc) Organizing Body: The World Bank

5 th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands Improve effectiveness of marine policy and management by informing the Global Conference of Census findings and technologies Ian Poiner (coordinator), Tonny Wagey, Meryl Williams (tbc) Organizing Body: Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands

World Ocean Day 2010 Highlight the importance of marine biodiversity by having it as the theme for World Ocean Day 8 June 2010 Meryl Williams, Victor Gallardo Organizing Body: The Ocean Project, may be adopted by UN

IOC Executive Council and Assembly Meeting Ensuring long-term global access to the best marine biodiversity data through formally establishing OBIS as a program of the IOC CoML Secretariat (co-coordinator), Edward Vanden Berghe (co-coordinator), Jim Baker, Victor Gallardo, Diego Rodriguez, & CoML participants with good contacts to national delegations (EvdB to advise) Organizing Body: United Nations

GEO-BONGEO-BON Securing global long term and sustainable access to and collection of marine biodiversity knowledge by having CoML tools and technologies included in GEOSS Edward Vanden Berghe (co-coordinator), Pat Halpin (co-coordinator), Jim Baker, Mark Costello, Jan de Leeuw, David Farmer Organizing Body: Group on Earth Observations

Templates to Focus Planning WHAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE Goals and Objectives CoML messages to emphasize Target Audience WHO IS GOING TO DO THE WORK Coordinator, Organizers NRIC Participation Potential Speakers/Presenters THE PRACTICAL DETAILS Name, Date, Location Actions, due dates Format of Event, associated activities Support Materials Needed

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