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Welcome to the website of the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands. This website provides information on global developments related to oceans, coasts, and small island developing States (SIDS), particularly activities aimed at achieving oceans-related targets from the World Summit on Sustainable Development and from the Millennium Development Goals through policy analyses, multi-stakeholder dialogues, working groups, roundtables, and other approaches.
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4th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands:
Advancing Ecosystem Management and Integrated Coastal and
Ocean Management by 2010 in the Context of Climate Change
April 7-11, 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam

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4th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands
Integrated Ocean and Coastal Management
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2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development Plan of Implementation, Paragraph 30

Global Forum Co-Chairs:
Dr. Biliana Cicin-Sain
Director
Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy
University of Delaware 		Dr. Patricio Bernal
Executive Secretary
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
UNESCO 		Dr. Veerle Vandeweerd
Director
Environment and Energy Group
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Major Sponsors:
GEF IW:LEARN IOC CMP UNEP GPA NOAA DFO-Canada World Ocean Network

Other Collaborating Organizations:
Centro EPOMEX, Mexico |
| 		Consejo Consultivo del Agua, Mexico |
| 		Global Water Partnership |
| 		IOCARIBE |
| 		Luso-American Development Foundation |
| 		The Nature Conservancy |
| 		The World Bank
NEPAD |
| 		Nippon Foundation |
| 		PEMSEA |
| 		Portuguese Committee for IOC |
| 		SEMARNAT, Mexico |
| 		South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission |
| 		UNESCO

This site is produced at the Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy, University of Delaware, by the Secretariat of the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands. Questions concerning its content may be sent to Dr. Miriam C. Balgos, Global Forum Program Coordinator, Center for Marine Policy, 301 Robinson Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 U.S.A.; Tel: 1-302-831-8086; Fax: 1-302-831-3668; Email: mbalgos@udel.edu

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