| Special Address: Emilio Gabbrielli, Executive Secretary,
Global Water Partnership, Organizing for the Global Water Agenda:
Lessons Learned and Links to Oceans |
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Emilio
Gabbrielli, Executive Secretary, Global Water Partnership,
Organizing
for the Global Water Agenda: Lessons Learned and Links to Oceans,
Gabbrielli
described
how the GWP supports countries in the sustainable development
of their water resources through integrated water resources
management, stressing the importance of political commitment
and awareness. Explaining that the GWP works through a network
of partnerships, he noted its associated programmes on gender,
groundwater, flood management and river basin management, and
said its success was due to its flexibility, the focus on substance,
and its ability to act quickly to respond to real perceived
needs. Gabbrielli said coastal management was an integral part
of fresh water management.
(Listen to his statement)
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| Session 4: NGO and Foundation Perspectives on WSSD Implementation |
Hiroshi
Terashima, Executive
Director, Institute for Ocean Policy, Ship & Ocean Foundation,
Japan, Francois Bailet, Deputy
Executive Director, International Ocean Institute, Sylvia
Earle, Conservation International,
Chair Lynne Hale, Director, Marine Initiative, The
Nature Conservancy, and Carl Lundin,
Head, Marine Programme, IUCN
Chair
Lynne Hale,
Director, Marine Initiative, The Nature Conservancy, gives
some opening remarks (2nd from the right)
Listen
to statements from:
Peter
Bryant,
Communications Manager, Endangered Seas Programme, World Wildlife
Fund International
Matthew
Hatchwell,
European Coordinator, The Wildlife Conservation Society
Xavier
Pastor, Vice
President for European Oceans, Oceana
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| Matthew
Hatchwell,
European Coordinator, The Wildlife Conservation Society, Xavier
Pastor, Vice President for European Oceans, Oceana, and
Peter Bryant, Communications Manager,
Endangered Seas Programme, World Wildlife Fund International |
| Carl
Lundin, Head, Marine Programme, IUCN, Francois
Bailet, Deputy Executive Director, International Ocean
Institute, and Hiroshi
Terashima, Executive
Director, Institute for Ocean Policy, Ship & Ocean Foundation,
Japan |
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| Session 5: Roundtable Discussion on Challenges and Opportunities
in Meeting the WSSD Substantive Objectives on Oceans, Coasts and
Small Island Developing States |
Cross
Sectoral Aspects: Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management and
Governance and Ecosystem Approaches
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| Eduardo
Marone, Executive Director, International Ocean Institute, Brazil,
and CEM/UFPR, Sustainability and Viability: Reinforcing the
Concepts of the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development,
Lawrence Juda, Professor, University of Rhode Island, US, Difficulties
in Implementing Ecosystem Management, and Biliana
Cicin-Sain, Director, CMP, University of Delaware, The
Way Forward for Coastal and Ocean Governance |
| Michael
O'Toole, Chief Technical Advisor, Benguela Current Large Marine
Ecosystem Programme, UNDP,
Implementing the WSSD Targets through Ecosystem Management: Example
from the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem,
Louise Heaps, Head, WWF-UK Marine
Programme, Implementing the WSSD Targets in Ecosystem
Management, and Magnus Ngoile, Director
General, National Environment Management Council, Tanzania,
Linking Ocean and Coastal Governance to Poverty Alleviation
and to Public Health Improvements |
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The
dais during the panel discussion on Fisheries
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| Alastair
MacFarlane,
General Manager, Trade and Information, New Zealand Seafood Industry
Council Ltd. (SEAFIC), Jorge Varela,
Senior International and Legal Advisor, South American Oceans
and Antartica Office, Oceana, Chile, Eliminating Fisheries
Subsidies, and Serge Garcia,
Director, Fishery Resources Division, FAO, The Way Forward
in Fisheries |
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Hance
Smith,
Reader, School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Cardiff
University, UK, The Regional Management of Fisheries, Grant
Trebble, Coordinator, AMCROPS, South Africa |
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| Small
Island Developing States; and Biodiversity Protection and Marine
Protected Areas |
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SIDS:
John Low, Natural Resources Advisor, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat,
Fiji (left)
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Biodiversity:
Bud Ehler, Vice-IUCN-World Commission on Protected Areas
(Marine), and Director, International Programmes Office, NOAA,
Toward Representative Networks of Marine
Protected Areas by 2012, and
Daniel Laffoley, Head, Marine Conservation,
English Nature
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| Protection
from Marine Pollution |
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Dandu
Paghiuc,
Chief Technical Adviser, GloBallast, International Maritime
Organization, and David Osborn,
Programme Officer, UNEP/GPA, Achieving Substantial Progress
in GPA by 2006
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| Achieving
Enhanced Coherence in the UN vis-à-vis Oceans, Coasts and
Islands |
| Louise
de la Fayette,
Principal Legal Officer, UNDOALOS, said the establishment of a
Global Marine Assessment (GMA), endorsed by the UN General Assembly,
would provide a scientific basis for sound decision making, Alan
Simcock, Executive Secretary, OSPAR Commission, and past
Co-Chair, UNICPOLOS, stressed the need to focus on regional agreements,
the process and transparency in developing a GMA, and Salif
Diop, Division of Early Warning and Assessment, stressed
the need for regional and developing country involvement in the
GMA process. |
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Charlotte
de Fontaubert, IUCN
Consultant |
| Marine
Science and Observation Contribution to the WSSD Agenda |
| Johannes
Guddal,
Co-President, Joint WMO/IOC Commission for Oceanography and Marine
Meteorology (JCOMM) (left), and Peter Burbridge,
Sustainable Development Expert, Land-Ocean Interactions in the
Coastal Zone (LOICZ) IPO, The Netherlands, and
Tony Knapp, CO-Chair Coastal Ocean Observations Panel (COOP),
Global Ocean Observing System |
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