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Ocean governance capacity building workshop

This capacity building workshop on ocean governance will take place on 9 October 2022 (the Sunday directly before the General Assembly).

Led by Sebastian Unger, Ben Boteler and Matt Gianni, with input from Luise von Pogrell, David Johnson and Vikki Gunn, this workshop will provide information on the importance of “translating” scientific findings to policy and regulatory action. We will discuss the various means and methods of identifying the scientific information that policy-makers and regulators are likely to find relevant and the means by which to effectively interject the information into regulatory processes. We will discuss a number of such processes, for example regional fisheries management organisations (RFMOs) in the Atlantic that regulate bottom fisheries for their impacts on vulnerable marine ecosystems and the current negotiations at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) to develop regulations needed to protect and preserve the marine environment from the harmful effects of mining activities. We will provide ‘real world’ examples from these and other organisations on how science has been used to inform the debates and negotiations regarding conservation and sustainable use of the marine environment. 

Please note this is an in-person event, and the working language will be English.


Workshop venue 

The workshop will be held at the Jurere Beach Village near Florianopolis – the same venue as the main iAtlantic General Assembly. 


Workshop programme
10:00 – 10:30Welcome and introduction

10:30 – 12:30

(inc. coffee break)

Presentations and discussion

1. International Ocean Governance/ current challenges and opportunities to bringing science to policymakers:

  • Overview of deep-sea mining negotiations and the International Seabed Authority
  • Deep-sea fisheries and measures adopted by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs)
  • Negotiations on the new UN treaty for marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ)
  • UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
  • UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration
  • UN Convention ion Biological Diversity (CBD) process for describing ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs)
  • Global Biodiversity Targets and Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Decision under negotiation for adoption by the 15th Conference of Parties to the CBD
  • The ocean and climate change dialogue of the UNFCCC (UN Climate Change treaty)

2. Ocean governance in Brazil: the regional and national scales

3. Transdisciplinary ocean governance research:

  • design of co-creative research processes
  • stakeholder engagement
  • (…)
12:30 – 14:00Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30

Group work: translating scientific research into practice

Group discussions with a focus on deep-sea research and design of science/policy interfaces

15:30 – 15:50Coffee break
15:50 – 16:00Personal reflections and development of take-home messages
16:00 – 16:30Reporting back to plenary & closing discussion
16:30Workshop close

How to register for this workshop

You can register for this workshop as part of the registration process for the iAtlantic General Assembly. Registration deadline is 31 August 2022.


Questions?

Please contact the iAtlantic Project Office: i-Atlantic@ed.ac.uk

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