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Daily report for 19 July 2017
4th Session of the BBNJ Preparatory Committee
Highlights and images for 19 July 2017
4th Session of the BBNJ Preparatory Committee
On Wednesday, 19 July, delegates met in plenary in the morning and in the early afternoon to continue consideration of a revised Chair’s text containing draft recommendations to the UN General Assembly, focusing on the following draft elements of an international legally binding instrument (ILBI): environmental impact assessments, capacity building and technology transfer (CB&TT), institutional arrangements, and final clauses. Plenary also considered: a chapeau to the draft elements of the ILBI; and a procedural recommendation calling on the UN General Assembly to convene an intergovernmental conference as soon as possible, with a possible starting date of 2018.
In the afternoon, Chair Duarte held informal closed consultations on: the ILBI relationships with other legal instruments and relevant bodies; international cooperation; access to marine genetic resources (MGRs), types of benefits to be shared, IPRs and monitoring of MGR utilization; relationships between on area-based management tools and measures under other instruments, and adjacency; strategic environmental assessments; terms for technology transfer, and funding for CB&TT; institutional arrangements; financing; responsibility and liability; and a procedural recommendation to the General Assembly.
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from the 4th Session of the Preparatory Committee Established by the UN General Assembly Resolution 69/292: Development of 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 summary and analysis report is now available in HTML and PDF.
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L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UNDOALOS; Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil; Alice Hicuburundi, UNDOALOS; and Charlotte Salpin, UNDOALOS
Wini Broadbelt, EU
Lizanne Aching, Trinidad and Tobago
Larisa Chernysheva, Russian Federation
Jung-Eun Kim, Republic of Korea
Alice Revell, New Zealand
Juliette Babb-Riley, Barbados, on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
Zakieh Taghizadeh, Iran
Audrey Naana Abayena, Ghana
Diedre Mills, Jamaica, on behalf of CARICOM
María Alejandrina Sande, Uruguay, making an intervention
Edgar Gutiérrez Espeleta, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica
Jean Kenfack, Cameroon
Teresa Cruz Sardiñas, Cuba
Michael Googan, Australia
Khurshed Alam, Bangladesh, on behalf of the Least Developed
Countries (LDCs)
Alejandro Alday, Mexico
Mehdi Remaoun, Algeria, on behalf of the African Group
Leonito Bacalando Jr., Federated States of Micronesia
Ma Xinmin, China
Luis Oña Garcés, Ecuador, on behalf of the G-77/China
Ariel Cayanan, the Philippines
Matthías Pálsson, Iceland
John Fintakpa Lamega, Togo
Evan Bloom, US
View of the informal consultations
L-R: Mehdi Remaoun, Algeria, in a conversation with Sergey Leonidchenko, Russian Federation
L-R: Hiba Obaid Darwish Alsheihi, Hiba AlSaleh, and Hassina Ali, United Arab Emirates
Delegates from the Philippines
Daily report for 18 July 2017
4th Session of the BBNJ Preparatory Committee
Daily report for 17 July 2017
4th Session of the BBNJ Preparatory Committee
Highlights and images for 14 July 2017
4th Session of the BBNJ Preparatory Committee
On Friday, 14 July, delegates met in the informal working group on crosscutting issues, discussing: use of terms, scope and objective of the ILBI, relationship with other agreements; as well as guiding principles and approaches, and international cooperation, for BBNJ conservation and sustainable use.
In the afternoon, plenary resumed to discuss next steps including the convening of an intergovernmental conference and the status of the Chair’s streamlined non-paper.
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from the 4th Session of the Preparatory Committee Established by the UN General Assembly Resolution 69/292: Development of 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 summary and analysis report is now available in HTML and PDF.
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L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UNDOALOS; Barbara Boechat, Brazil; Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil; and Charlotte Salpin, UNDOALOS
Metod Špaček, EU
Alice Revell, New Zealand
Matthías Pálsson, Iceland
Audrey Naana Abayena, Ghana
Kabure Yeeting, Kiribati
Josefina Bunge, Argentina
Javier Gorostegui, Chile
Narayanane Saravanane, India
Essam Yassin Mohammed, Eritrea
Khurshed Alam, Bangladesh
Juan Cuéllar Torres, Colombia
Ismail Raushan, Maldives, on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Margo Deiye, Nauru, on behalf of the Pacific Small Island Developing States
Diedre Mills, Jamaica, on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
Participants at PrepCom 4
Sesselja Sigurdardóttir, Iceland
Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga, Mexico
Mamadou Diallo, Senegal
Rena Lee, Singapore
Evan Bloom, US
Luis Oña Garcés, Ecuador, on behalf of the G-77/China
Sergey Leonidchenko, Russian Federation
Rogelio Villanueva Jr., the Philippines
Lisa Speer, Natural Resources Defense Council
Zentaro Naganuma, Japan
Hina Saeed Baig, Pakistan
Ma Xinmin, China
L-R: Kristina Gjerde, Cymie Payne, and Hiroko Muraki Gottlieb, IUCN
L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UNDOALOS; Barbara Boechat, Brazil; Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil; Alice Hicuburundi, UNDOALOS; and Charlotte Salpin, UNDOALOS
L-R: Javier Gorostegui, Chile, in a conversation with Metod Špaček, EU
Greenpeace images and encouraging messages from the Alboran Sea
Duncan Currie (second from right), Greenpeace, in a discussion with delegates from New Zealand
Delegates from WWF
Daily report for 14 July 2017
4th Session of the BBNJ Preparatory Committee
Highlights and images for 13 July 2017
4th Session of the BBNJ Preparatory Committee
On Thursday, 13 July, the informal working group on capacity building and technology transfer continued discussions in the morning, focusing on: objectives, principles, modalities, clearinghouse mechanism, funding, monitoring and review, and definitions.
The informal working group on crosscutting issues, facilitated by Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil, focused on: institutional arrangements, including a decision-making forum, a scientific/technical body, a clearinghouse, a financial mechanism, dispute settlement, responsibility and liability, and review; and the preamble of an international legally binding instrument.
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from the 4th Session of the Preparatory Committee Established by the UN General Assembly Resolution 69/292: Development of 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 summary and analysis report is now available in HTML and PDF.
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L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UNDOALOS; Rena Lee, Singapore, Facilitator of the informal working group on capacity building and transfer of marine technology; Alice Hicuburundi, UNDOALOS; and Vita Onwuasoanya, UNDOALOS
Juliette Babb-Riley, Barbados, on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
Sabita Nakarmi, Nepal
Faiyaz Murshid Kazi, Bangladesh
Marc Richir, EU
Carlos García Reyes, Guatemala
Saifu George, Sierra Leone
Jorge Dotta, Uruguay
Vladimir Ryabinin, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Margo Deiye, Nauru, on behalf of the Pacific Small Island Developing States
Riena Dwi Astuty, Indonesia
Kjell Kristian Egge, Norway
Ismail Raushan, Maldives, on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Dhisadee Chamlongrasdr, Thailand
James Ndirangu Waweru, Kenya
Rogelio Villanueva Jr., the Philippines
Mohamed Atlassi, Morocco
Audrey Naana Abayena, Ghana
Tatiana Shuvalova, Russian Federation
Luke Tang, Singapore
Jean Kenfack, Cameroon
Tevita Suka Mangisi, Tonga
Alain Tellier, Canada
Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga, Mexico
Zentaro Naganuma, Japan
Estrella Tulay, the Philippines
Landisang Kotaro, Palau
Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil, facilitating the informal working group on crosscutting issues
L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UNDOALOS; Barbara Boechat, Brazil; Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil; Charlotte Salpin, UNDOALOS; and Michele Ameri, UNDOALOS
Sibylle Vermont, Switzerland
Zakieh Taghizadeh, Iran
Metod Špaček, EU
Duncan Currie, Greenpeace
Evan Bloom, US
Oleg Rykov, Russian Federation
Mehdi Remaoun, Algeria, on behalf of the African Group
Aboubacar Oulare, Guinea
Florian Botto, Monaco
L-R: Zentaro Naganuma, Japan, in a conversation with Matthías Pálsson, Iceland
Delegates from the Caribbean Community
Delegates from Germany
Daily report for 13 July 2017
4th Session of the BBNJ Preparatory Committee
Highlights and images for 12 July 2017
4th Session of the BBNJ Preparatory Committee
On Wednesday, 12 July, the informal working group on area-based management tools (ABMTs), including marine protected areas (MPAs), continued discussions on the designation process, as well as on implementation, relationships to existing instruments, and monitoring and review.
The informal working group on environmental impact assessments (EIAs), facilitated by René Lefeber (the Netherlands), then addressed: obligations, guiding principles and approaches, criteria and thresholds, process, content of EIA reports, relationships to existing instruments, clearinghouse mechanisms, capacity building and technology transfer, and monitoring and review. The informal working group on capacity building and technology transfer, facilitated by Rena Lee (Singapore), started discussion of objectives, and guiding principles and approaches.
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from the 4th Session of the Preparatory Committee Established by the UN General Assembly Resolution 69/292: Development of 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 summary and analysis report is now available in HTML and PDF.
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L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (UNDOALOS); Alice Revell, New Zealand, Facilitator of the informal working group on ABMTs, including MPAs; Valentina Germani, UNDOALOS; and Carlos Fuentes, UNDOALOS
Siai Taylor, Cook Islands
Kjell Kristian Egge, Norway
Ma Xinmin, China
Riena Dwi Astuty, Indonesia
Michael Googan, Australia
Blaise Kuemlangan, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Rena Lee, Singapore
Evan Bloom, US
Alice Revell, New Zealand, Facilitator of the informal working group on ABMTs, including MPAs
Luis Oña Garcés, Ecuador, on behalf of the G-77/China
Veronica Frank, Greenpeace
Zentaro Naganuma, Japan
Arnór Snæbjörnsson, Iceland
Margo Deiye, Nauru, on behalf of the Pacific Small Island Developing States
Leonito Bacalando Jr., Federated States of Micronesia
John Fintakpa Lamega, Togo
Kate Neilson, New Zealand
L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UNDOALOS; René Lefeber, the Netherlands, Facilitator of the informal working group on environmental impact assessments; Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil; Alice Hicuburundi, UNDOALOS; and Charlotte Salpin, UNDOALOS
L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UNDOALOS; René Lefeber, the Netherlands, Facilitator of the informal working group on environmental impact assessments; Michael Schewchuk, UNDOALOS; and Yoshinobu Takei, UNDOALOS
Wini Broadbelt, EU
Lizanne Aching, Trinidad and Tobago, on behalf of the Caribbean Community
Babajide Alo, Nigeria
Oleg Rykov, Russian Federation
Cymie Payne, IUCN
Cheikhy Sidi, Mauritania
Clarissa Jacqueline Caancan, the Philippines
Duncan Currie, Greenpeace
Penny Race, New Zealand
L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UNDOALOS; Rena Lee, Singapore, Facilitator of the informal working group on capacity building and transfer of marine technology; and Vita Onwuasoanya, UNDOALOS
Kathleen Siala Taituave, Samoa
Da Hee Song, Republic of Korea
Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga, Mexico
Martin Zvachula, Federated States of Micronesia
Mehdi Remaoun, Algeria, on behalf of the African Group
L-R: Mehdi Remaoun, Algeria, consulting with Thembile Joyini, South Africa
L-R: Sergey Leonidchenko, Russian Federation, in a conversation with Kjell Kristian Egge, Norway, and Evan Bloom, US
Delegates from Fiji and Samoa
Delegates from the Philippines
Daily report for 12 July 2017
HLPF 2017