CONFERENCE BACKGROUND MATERIALS

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Panel 1: Status of Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems and Peoples; Operationalizing Ecosystem-Based Management
Panel 2: Ocean Industries: Best Practices in Sustainable Development Across the Sectors
Panel 3: Progress on Major WSSD and MDG Goals on Oceans and Coasts
Panel 4: Linking Freshwater to Oceans
Panel 5: Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for Small Islands Developing States
Panel 6: The Tsunami Disaster and Disaster Preparedness: One Year Later
Panel 7: Africa
Panel 8: South-North Dialogue: The Mediterranean Case
Panel 9: Capacity Development for Ocean and Coastal Management: Mobilizing to Address Needs
Panel 10: Improving High Seas Governance
Panel 11: Oceans and Climate
Panel 12: Engaging Decisionmakers and the Public

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Panel 1: Status of Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems and Peoples; Operationalizing Ecosystem-Based Management (WSSD ecosystem goal)
Co-Chairs: Dr. Ellen Pikitch, Executive Director, Pew Institute for Ocean Science, and Professor, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Atmospheric and Marine Science, and Dr. Indumathie Hewawasam, Senior Environment Specialist, World Bank

1. Status of Marine Resources and Marine Ecosystems

a. Fisheries:
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA), 2004, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization.
http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/007/y5600e/y5600e00.htm

b. Marine Mammals:
Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: 2002-2010 Conservation Action Plan for the World's Cetaceans, IUCN, 2003.
(To Be Added)

Recent cruise by Ocean Foundation on mercury in whales
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/OceanFoundation_Whales.pdf

c. Status of coral reefs
Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2004, Volume 1. Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, Australian Institute of Marine Science, ed. Clive Wilkinson, 2004.
http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/coral-bleaching/scr2004/pdf/scr2004v1-all.pdf

People and Reefs- Successes and Challenges in the Management of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas. UNEP Regional Seas Report and Studies No. 176
http://www.icran.org/

Marine Protected Areas: Benefits and Costs for Islands, 2005.
http://www.icran.org/

d. Census of Marine Life (CORE)
The Unknown Ocean: Baseline Report of the Census of Marine Life, 2003.
http://www.coml.org/baseline/Baseline_Report_101603.pdf

e. Millennium Ecosystems Assessment
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005
http://www.millenniumassessment.org//en/Products.Synthesis.aspx

f. Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA)
http://www.giwa.net/


2. Progress on Defining Ecosystem-Based Management (both natural and social science side)

a. Work by COMPAS- Scientists' consensus statement on Ecosystem-Based Management
(To Be Added)

b. Operationalizing Ecosystem-Based Management in the GEF Large Marine Ecosystem Program and in the Regional Seas Programme
Al Duda, Targeting development assistance to meet WSSD goals for large marine ecosystems and small island developing states, Ocean and Coastal Management, Vol. 48, p.1-14, 2005.
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/405889/description#
description

c. Countries have operationalized ecosystem-based management in their national ocean policy strategies in their 200-mile EEZs
(To Be Added)


3. Reducing Poverty and Environmental Sustainability.

a. UN Millennium Project
Task Force Report on Environmental Sustainability, 2005.
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/EnvironSust_summary.pdf

b. The World Bank, UNDP work on measuring advances on Millennium Development Goals
(To Be Added)

Panel 2: Ocean Industries: Best Practices in Sustainable Development Across the Sectors
Chair: Mr. Paul Holthus, Executive Director, Marine Aquarium Council, Global Forum Business and Industry Leaders Roundtable Coordinator

(To Be Added)

Panel 3: Progress on Major WSSD and MDG Goals on Oceans and Coasts
Chair: Dr. David Freestone, Deputy General Counsel, Advisory Services, Legal Vice Presidency, World Bank

General:

1. Mobilizing for Implementation of the Commitments Made at the 2002 Word Summit on Sustainable Development on Oceans Coasts and Islands: Co-Chairs Report of the 2003 Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands, UNESCO, Paris, November 12-14, 2003 and Subsequent Developments.

Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands.
http://www.globaloceans.org/globalconference/pdf/2004WSSDImplementationReport.pdf


2. Report on the work of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea at its sixth meeting.

United Nations, 2005.
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N05/414/01/PDF/N0541401.pdf?OpenElement


3. Advance, unedited text of the Report submitted in accordance with paragraph 17 of General Assembly resolution 59/25 of 17 November 2004.

UNDOALOS. 2006.
www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/reviewconf/advance_unedited_text_2006.pdf

Integrated Ocean and Coastal Management:

1. Global Water Partnership. 2005. GWP in Action, 2004.

http://www.gwpforum.org/gwp/library/GWPinAction2004.pdf


2. Gabbrielli, E. May 2004. Organizing for the Global Water Agenda: Lessons Learned and Links to the Oceans. In: Mobilizing for Implementation of the Commitments Made at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development on Oceans, Coasts, and Small Island Developing States, Co-Chairs' Report of 2003 Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, UNESCO, Paris, November 12-14, 2003 and Subsequent Developments.

http://www.globaloceans.org/globalconference/pdf/2004WSSDImplementationReport.pdf


3. UNEP/GPA. Aims of the Global Programme of Action.

http://www.gpa.unep.org/about/index.html#tag2


4. UNEP/GPA. The GPA Clearing House.

http://www.gpa.unep.org/about/index.html#tag2

Fisheries:

1. State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) 2004.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/007/y5600e/y5600e00.pdf


2. Technical Consultation to Review Progress and Promote the Full Implementation of the IPOA to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate IUU Fishing and the IPOA for the Management of Fishing Capacity.

Food and Agriculture Organization, 2004.
ftp://ftp.fao.org/fi/DOCUMENT/tc-iuu-cap/2004/default.htm


3. Action Taken by FAO Members to Implement the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter, and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.

Food and Agriculture Organization, 2004.
ftp://ftp.fao.org/fi/DOCUMENT/tc-iuu-cap/2004/inf3e.pdf


4. National Plans to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing: Models for coastal and small island developing states.

Food and Agriculture Organization, 2004.
http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/docrep/007/j1695e/j1695e00.htm


5. Guidelines for the Ecolabelling of Fish and Fishery Products from Marine Capture Fisheries.

FAO, 2005.
http://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/008/a0116t/a0116t00.pdf


6. Ethical Issues In Fisheries

Food and Agriculture Organization, 2005.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/y6634e/y6634e00.htm


7. Subsidies: A Way Towards Sustainable Fisheries?

OECD December 2005 Policy Brief. OECD Observer.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/63/54/35802686.pdf


8. Workshop on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Activities.

OECD, 2004.
http://www.oecd.org/document/5/0,2340,en_2649_33901_21007109_1_1_1_1,00.html


9. OECD Study on Economic Assistance to Fisheries

OECD
http://www.oecd.org/document/48/0,2340,en_2649_33901_2348784_1_1_1_1,00.html


10. Economic Support of the Fishing Industry: Effects on Efficiency and Trade

Prepared for OECD by Professor R. Hannesson
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/38/55/2349472.pdf


11. Conference on the Governance of High Seas Fisheries and the United Nations Fish Agreement - Moving from Words to Action

Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada. 2005.
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fgc-cgp/index_e.htm


12. Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project Endorsement Document.

GEF/UNDP
http://www.thegef.org/Documents/Project_Proposals_for_Endorsem/Regional_-
_Pacific_Islands_OceanicFisheries.pdf


13. World Bank: Fisheries and Aquaculture.

World Bank.
http://www.worldbank.org/fish


14. Implementation Plan for the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries: National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. 1997.
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/international/code%20of%20conduct%20plan.htm


15. National Plan of Action of the United States of America to Prevent, Deter, and Eliminate Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported Fishing.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. 2005.
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/international/NPOA_IUU_files/NPOADETER.pdf


16. United States National Action Plan for the Management of Fishing Capacity.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/reg_svcs/npoa.capacity.8.4.04.pdf

Conservation of Biodiversity, Networks of MPAs:

1. MPA News, International News and Analysis on Marine Protected Areas, Vol.7 No.5, Nov. 2005

http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/MPA69.htm#targets


2. First International Marine Protected Areas Congress, October 2005

http://www.impacongress.org/stakeholders.htm


3. UN Secretary-General Report A60/63/Add.1 on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction

http://www.un.org/Depts/los/general_assembly/general_assembly_reports.htm


4. Convention on Biological Diversity, SBSTTA 11 Report, Progress Report on the Implementation of the Thematic Programmes of Work Under the Convention

http://www.biodiv.org/doc/meetings/sbstta/sbstta-11/official/sbstta-11-02-en.pdf

Panel 4: Linking Freshwater to Oceans (WSSD goal)
Chair: Dr. Al Duda, International Waters, Global Environment Facility

1. Global Water Partnership. April 2004. Current Status of National Efforts to Move Towards Sustainable Water Management Using an IWRM Approach. Informal Stakeholder Baseline Survey, Version 1.

http://www.gwpforum.org/gwp/library/IWRMSurvey.pdf#search='GWP%20Informal%
20Stakeholder%20Baseline%20Survey'


2. Osborn, David (UNEP/GPA). 2004. Global H2O Partnership Conference and Trade Fair, Cairns, Australia.

http://www.globaloceans.org/pdf/H2O.pdf#search='Global%20H2O%20Partnership%
20Conference%20and%20Trade%20Fair%2C%20Cairns%2C%20Australia.'


3. Ramsar Convention. 2005. Engagement of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in ongoing multilateral processes dealing with water. Resolution IX.3. COP-9, November 2005. (instructs Ramsar to cooperate with the 4th WWF, CSD, and other relevant water organizations)

http://www.ramsar.org/res/key_res_ix_03_e.pdf


4. Ramsar Convention. 2005. An Integrated Framework for the Ramsar Convention's water-related guidance. Resolution IX.1 Annex C. COP-9, November 2005. (provides guidance and case studies on river basin management)

http://www.ramsar.org/res/key_res_ix_01_annexc_e.pdf


5. UNEP. 2002. The UNEP Handbook on the Development and Implementation of a National Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities.

http://www.gpa.unep.org/documents/NPA/NPA%20ENGLISH.pdf


6. Speech Delivered on Behalf of the UNEP Executive Director, Dr. Klaus Toepfer at the 4th Meeting of the United Nations Open-Ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (UNICPOLOS), New York, 2-6 June, 2003 (regarding progress on GPA implementation at national/regional/global levels)

http://www.gpa.unep.org/documents/UNICPOLOS%20Report.doc


7. National Programmes of Action

(To Be Added)


8. UNEP. November 2005. Second Intergovernmental Review of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities (GPA): Second Announcement.

(To Be Added)


9. World Water Council: 4th World Water Forum. March 2004. Water Week in Mexico.

http://www.worldwaterforum.org/uploads/TBL_DOCS_3_42.pdf


10. United Nations World Water Development. January 2006. UN World Water Development Report: Water a shared responsibility - brochure for the 2nd World Water Development Report.

http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr2/pdf/wwdr_2_brochure.pdf


11. United Nations World Water Development. March 2003. UN World Water Development Report: Water for People, Water for Life.

http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr/table_contents.shtml


12. Winpenny, James, World Water Council, Global Water Partnership. March 2003. Report of the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure: Financing Water for All.

http://www.worldwaterforum.org/uploads/TBL_DOCS_60_36.pdf


13. Commission on Sustainable Development. April 2004. Report on the Thirteenth Session.

http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N05/382/16/PDF/N0538216.pdf?OpenElement


14. UN Collaborating Centre on Water and Environment, FreshCo Partnership. October 2005. Linking Freshwater Resources Management and Coastal Zone Management: General Issues Paper.

(To Be Added)

Panel 5: Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for Small Islands Developing States (WSSD goal)
Chair: Ambassador Jagdish Koonjul, Chair, Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)

1. Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States

http://www.sidsnet.org/docshare/other/20050222171050_Mauritius_Strategy_latest_
version.pdf


2. Report of the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States

http://www.sidsnet.org/docshare/other/20050622163242_English.pdf


3. Caribbean Regional Meeting to Follow-up on the Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy

5-7 October, 2005: St. Kitts & Nevis
http://www.sidsnet.org/MIM/followup-caribbean.html


4. Pacific Regional Meeting to Follow-up on the Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy

17-19 October, 2005: Apia, Samoa
http://www.sidsnet.org/MIM/followup-pacific.html


5. AIMS Regional Meeting to Follow-up on the Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy

26-28 October, 2005: Seychelles
http://www.sidsnet.org/MIM/followup-AIMS.html


6. Small Islands, Large Ocean States: A Review of Ocean and Coastal Management in Small Island Developing States since the 1994 Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Christen E. Loper, Miriam C. Balgos, Janice Brown, Biliana Cicin-Sain, Peter Edwards, Christina Jarvis, Jonathan Lilley, Isabel Torres de Noronha, Adam Skarke, Joana Flor Tavares, and LaVerne Walker.
Paper No. 2005-1. Small Island Developing States Paper Series. In Press. Global Forum on Oceans Coasts and Islands: University of Delaware, Newark, USA (2005).
(To Be Added)


7. Island Bellwether: Climate Change and Energy Policy Strategy for Small Island Developing States.

John Byrne, Leigh Glover, Vernese Inniss, and Gerard Alleng
Paper No. 2005-2: Small Island Developing States Paper Series. Global Forum on Oceans Coasts and Islands: University of Delaware, Newark, USA (2005).
(To Be Added)


8. Global Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Small Island Developing States.

Christen E. Loper, Danielle M. Tesch, Kevin Goldstein, and Isabel Torres de Noronha.
Paper No. 2004-2. Small Island Developing States Paper Series. Global Forum on Oceans Coasts and Islands: University of Delaware, Newark, USA (2004).
http://www.globaloceans.org/pdf/SIDS_2Dec21-04.pdf


9. Voluntary Partnership Initiatives from the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and Small Island Developing States

Toward Mauritius 2005 Paper Series No. 2003-1.
Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands: University of Delaware, Newark, USA (2003).
http://www.globaloceans.org/pdf/SIDSPaper1Mar10.pdf

Special presentation:
Progress on Combating Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported Fishing (WSSD goal)
Honorable Minister Ben Bradshaw, MP, Minister for Local Environment, Marine, and Animal Welfare, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom

High Seas Task Force - A Ministerially-led Task Force on Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing on the High Seas.
In December 2003, United Kingdom Minister for the Environment, Elliot Morley MP, announced the formation of the "High Seas Task Force," a ministerially-led group to address the problem of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing on the high seas. The goal of the task force is "to set priorities among a series of practical proposals for confronting the challenge of IUU fishing on the high seas. The end result will be a pragmatic and prioritized action plan that is both analytically sound and politically saleable and will act as a catalyzer."
http://www.high-seas.org/

Panel 6: The Tsunami Disaster and Disaster Preparedness: One Year Later
Chair: Dr. William Brennan, NOAA, and Dr. Patricio Bernal, Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO

A. Indian Ocean:

1. IOC Workshop Report No. 196: International Coordination Meeting for the Development of a Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System for the Indian Ocean within a Global Framework UNESCO Headquarters, France, 3-8 March 2005

http://ioc3.unesco.org/neamtws/documents/WR196.pdf


2. IOC Workshop Report No. 198: Second International Coordination Meeting for the Development of a Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System for the Indian Ocean Grand Baie, Mauritius, 14-16 April 2005

http://ioc3.unesco.org/neamtws/documents/WR198.pdf


3. IOC Reports of governing and major subsidiary bodies 107:

Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWS); Perth, Australia; 1st; 2005;
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001422/142228e.pdf


4. IOC. The Assessment of Capacity Building Requirements for an Effective and Durable Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System in the Indian Ocean (Bangladesh, Comoros, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand)

http://ioc3.unesco.org/indotsunami/nationalassessments.htm


5. American Society of Civil Engineers. Lifeline Performance Assessment

http://www.asce.org/static/tsunami/tsunami_reports.cfm
http://www.asce.org/files/pdf/tsunami/Tsunami%20report.pdf

B. Pacific Ocean:

1. International Tsunami Information Centre

http://ioc3.unesco.org/itic/

C. North East Atlantic, Mediterranean and Connected Seas

http://ioc3.unesco.org/neamtws/

D. Caribbean and Adjacent Regions

http://ioc3.unesco.org/cartws/

Tsunami Impact:

1. UNESCO. Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-
URL_ID=24497&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Post-Tsunami Rehabilitation and Construction:

1. UNEP Annotated Guiding Principles for Post-tsunami Rehabilitation and Reconstruction

http://ioc3.unesco.org/neamtws/documents/0523-5W3-AnnotatedCairoPrinciples.pdf


2. IUCN. Tsunami Response

http://www.iucn.org/tsunami/

(High-Level)Panel 7: Africa
Chair: Dr. Magnus Ngoile, National Environment Management Council, Tanzania

(To Be Added)

Panel 8: South-North Dialogue: The Mediterranean Case

(To Be Added)

Panel 9: Capacity Development for Ocean and Coastal Management: Mobilizing to Address Needs
Co-Chairs: Dr. Margaret Davidson, Director, NOAA Coastal Services Center, and Dr. Indumathie Hewawasam, Senior Environmental Specialist, World Bank

1. Mary Power and Cristelle Pratt, SOPAC. January 2006. Implementing the Pacific Islands Regional Oceans Policy: A Rapid Assessment on the Status of Ocean and Coastal Management in the Pacific Islands Region with recommendations for immediate priority actions.

(To Be Added)


2. Marina N'Deye. December 2005. Implementation Strategy for Advancing Ocean and Coastal Management in the Atlantic SIDS.

(To Be Added)


3. Isabel Torres de Noronha. December 2005. Community of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Strategy for the Seas of CPLP: Priority actions

(To Be Added)

Panel 10: Improving High Seas Governance
Co-Chairs: Mr. Alfonso Ascencio Herrera, Second Secretary, Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations and Dr. Salvatore Arico, Programme Specialist, Biodiversity - Division of Ecological Sciences, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

High Seas and Deep Seabed Working Group Background Papers:

A. General Background Documents:

1. The UN Secretary General Report on Oceans and law of the sea, A/60/63/Add.1.

This report responds to the UNGA request for information relating to conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction. The report contains background information on the full range of scientific, technological, economic and legal issues.
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N05/425/11/PDF/N0542511.pdf?OpenElement


2. Additional information is available in Part Two of the 2004 UN Secretary General Report A/59/62/Add.1, which addresses "Vulnerable marine ecosystems and biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction."

http://www.un.org/Depts/los/general_assembly/general_assembly_reports.htm


3. Recent developments relating to marine biodiversity beyond the limits of national jurisdiction in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Submitted By: Marjo Vierros, Secretariat, Convention on Biological Diversity
Update on developments related to the adoption of decision VII/5 (COP7) which provides a mandate for CBD work on marine biodiversity in areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/CBD_on_high_seas.doc


4. CBD Technical Series No. 19: The International Legal Regime of the High Seas and the Seabed Beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction

Prepared in collaboration with the IUCN's Global Marine Programme and the Task Force on High Seas Marine Protected Areas of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) by Lee A. Kimball, with special thanks to other members of the WCPA Task Force's international law sub-group: Charlotte Breide, John Croxall, Kristina Gjerde, Susie Grant, Andrew Hurd, Sian Pullen, Tullio Scovazzi, and Dorothy Zbicz.
Submitted By: Marjo Vierros, Secretariat, Convention on Biological Diversity
http://www.biodiv.org/doc/publications/cbd-ts-19.pdf


5. CBD Technical Series No. 20: Patterns of Species Richness in the High Seas

William Cheung, Jackie Alder, Vasiliki Karpouzi, Reg Watson, Vicky Lam, Catriona Day, Kristin Kaschner, and Daniel Pauly
Submitted By: Marjo Vierros, Secretariat, Convention on Biological Diversity
http://www.biodiv.org/doc/publications/cbd-ts-20.pdf


6. IUCN Statement to the Second Committee New York, 28 November 2005

Agenda Item 75: Oceans and the law of the sea, Statement by Lee Kimball, IUCN
Lee Kimball, IUCN
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/IUCN_UNGA_Statement_Nov 28_FINAL.pdf

B. Bioprospecting in the Deep-Sea Bed:

1. Briefing Note: Bioprospecting and the Genetic Resources of the Deep-Sea Beyond National Jurisdiction - An Overview of Commercial Interest and the Main Legal Issues Involved

Dr. David Leary?, Macquarie University
This document briefly covers issues related to bioprospecting in the deep-sea bed.
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/BriefingNote-Bioprospecting-DLeary.doc


2. Bioprospecting and the Genetic Resources of hydrothermal vents on the high seas: What is the existing legal position, where are we heading, and what are our options?

Macquarie Journal of International and Comparative Environmental Law, 2004, Volume 1
Dr. David Leary, Macquarie University
This article covers issues related to bioprospecting in the deep-sea bed as well as the potential role of regional organizations.
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/MqJICELarticle-Bioprospecting-DLeary.pdf


3. Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Ecosystems - Arguments for Conservation

Dr. S. Kim Juniper, Université du Québec à Montréal
This document is a brief background document outlining some bioprospecting and conservation issues applicable to deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments.
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/Vents_Conservation-SKJuniper.doc


4. The Management of seabed living resources in "The Area" under UNCLOS

Dr. Frida Armas Pfirter
Report presented to the Legal and Technical Commission of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in August 2004.
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/isa_genetic_resources-FArmasPfirter.doc


5. Issues Relating to the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Deep Seabed Genetic Resources

Dr. Frida Armas Pfirter
Discussion document regarding deep seabed genetic resources.
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/genetic_paper-FArmasPfirter.doc


6. Bioprospecting ethics & benefits: A model for effective benefit-sharing

Dr. Leif P. Christoffersen and Dr. Eric J. Mathur, Diversa Corporation
Industrial Biotechnology, 2005, Vol. 1, No. 4, Pages 255-259
Available Online at: http://www.liebertpub.com/publication.aspx?pub_id=140
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/BioproespectingEthics-Christoferson
&Mathur-Diversa.pdf


7. Bioprospecting in the deep sea

Greenpeace International
Submitted By: Karen Sack, Greenpeace
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/Bioprospectinginthedeepsea-Nov2005-
Greenpeace.pdf


8. UNU-IAS Report: Bioprospecting of Genetic Resources in the Deep Seabed: Scientific, Legal and Policy Aspects

Salvatore Arico and Charlotte Salpin
Submitted By: Salvatore Arico, UNESCO
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/DeepSeabed-UNU-IAS.pdf

C. High Seas Governance:

1. The Editor's Introduction to a Special Issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law on High Seas Fisheries Governance.

International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, EDITION (In Press)
Submitted By: Kristina Gjerde, IUCN Global Marine Program
The Special Issue (in press) contains articles based on those commissioned by the Canadian government for the Conference on the Governance of High Seas Fisheries and the United Nations Fish Agreement: Moving from Words to Action, convened in May of 2005. The issue also contains useful tables and maps providing an overview of regional management of straddling and highly migratory fisheries management. The introduction reviews the state of high seas fisheries and summarizes many of the recommendations made in the commissioned articles.
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/IJMCLIntro-highseas-KGjerde.pdf


2. Black Holes in Deep Ocean Space: Closing the Legal Voids in High Seas Biodiversity Protection

Greenpeace International
Submitted By: Karen Sack, Greenpeace
This document focuses on the need for an implementing agreement under UNCLOS to establish high seas marine reserves and comprehensively manage high seas biodiversity.
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/BlackHolesinOceanSpace-Greenpeace.pdf


3. Ocean Governance: A New Ethos through a World Ocean Public Trust

(Chapter 11 of Defying Oceans End)
Chapter By: Montserrat Gorina-Ysern, Kristina Gjerde and Michael Orbach
Submitted By: Arlo Hemphill, Conservation International
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/DefyingOceansEnd-Chapter11(6)-FINAL.pdf


4. Some FAO Activities Relating to Issues Concerning the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity Beyond Areas of National Jurisdiction

Submitted by: Serge Garcia, FAO
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/FAO_UNGA_highseasbiodiversity_March2006.doc


5. The Changing Nature of High Seas Fishing: How flags of convenience provide cover for illegal and unregulated fishing

Matthew Gianni and Walt Simpson
Submitted by: Matthew Gianni, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/ChangingNatureofHighSeasFishing_
GianniSimpson.doc

Panel 11: Oceans and Climate
Chair: Dr. Robert Corell, Chair, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment

1. Intergovernmental Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage: Ocean Storage (Chapter 6), Coordinating Lead Authors: Ken Caldeira and Makoto Akai (2005).

(Item available upon request)


2. Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), 2004.

http://amap.no/acia/ACIAContent.html#ACIA-highlights

Panel 12: Engaging Decisionmakers and the Public
Chair: Mr. Philippe Valette, Managing Director, NAUSICAA- National Sea Centre, France, and Chair, the World Ocean Network

1. Constant Cravings: The European Consumer and Sustainable Seafood Choices, Seafood Choices Alliance, 2005.

http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/EUConsumer.pdf


2. Sustainable Tables: European Seafood Professionals and Environmentally Responsible Seafood, Seafood Choices Alliance, 2005.

http://www.globaloceans.org/paris3/pdf/EUProfessional.pdf