 |
2nd Intergovernmental Review
of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection
of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities
Beijing | 16-20 October 2006
| 
|
| |
|
|
|
Partnerships and Memoranda abound at GPA IGR-2
On Tuesday morning, delegates at GPA IGR-2 met in Plenary to hear
reports from the three breakout sessions on the way forward with
National Programmes of Action that took place on Monday.
Throughout the rest of the day, 19 partnership workshops were held. The
Beijing Declaration working group met at lunchtime and in the evening.
Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) between UNEP/GPA, the Ramsar
Convention and the International Ocean Institute were signed in the
evening.
Above: Peter Bridgewater, Executive Secretary, Ramsar Convention,
and Awni Behnam, President, International Ocean Institute, sign an
MOU while Veerle Vandeweerd, Coordinator, UNEP/GPA Coordination Office,
looks on.
|
|
|
Tuesday, 17 October
|
|
Plenary
|
|
Dagmara Berbalk, Germany, summarized the outcomes of the group on
mainstreaming the GPA into national development planning.
|
Magnús Jóhannesson, Iceland, summarized the outcomes of the group on financing the implementation of the GPA.
|
Elizabeth Thompson, Barbados, reviewed the outcomes of the group on
strengthening national legislative and institutional frameworks, which
facilitate the implementation of the GPA.
|
Côte d'Ivoire suggested extending the polluter-pays principle to
include levies on households.
|
Lebanon urged delegates to remember marine pollution caused by armed
conflicts.
|
Palestine agreed that marine pollution caused by land-based combat
activities was an overlooked topic.
|
|
Partnership Workshops
|
Strategic Partnerships for International Waters in GEF: Mainstreaming
GPA in Transboundary Basins and in Large Marine Ecosystems
|
Moving Towards a Successful Implementation of Sustainable Sanitation
Services
|
Advancing JPOI Targets on Ecosystem Management and in Integrated
Coastal and Ocean Management Through the GPA: Global Reporting and
Case Studies
|
Establishing an Information Portal on Waste Management for SIDS
|
|
More Partnership Workshop Photos...
|
|
Beijing Declaration Drafting Group
|
The Beijing Declaration drafting group met during lunch and in the
evening, and is expected to have text finalized in time for the arrival
of ministers on Thursday.
|
|
Memoranda of Understanding
|
Peter Bridgewater, Executive Secretary, Ramsar Convention,
and Veerle Vandeweerd, Coordinator, UNEP/GPA Coordination Office,
shake hands after signing a memorandum of understanding.
|
Peter Bridgewater, Executive Secretary, Ramsar Convention,
and Awni Behnam, President, International Ocean Institute,
after signing a memorandum of understanding.
|
Veerle Vandeweerd, Coordinator, UNEP/GPA Coordination Office,
and Awni Behnam, President, International Ocean Institute,
after signing a memorandum of understanding.
|
|
Around IGR-2
|
Delegates conferred after plenary.
|
Veerle Vandeweerd, UNEP/GPA Coordination Office, and Dagmara Berbalk,
Germany.
|
Chua Thai-Eng, Regional Programme Director, PEMSEA, and Langston "Kimo"
Goree, Director, IISD Reporting Services, discuss PEMSEA's upcoming
East Asian Seas Congress.
|
|
