Serge Garcia, Jake Rice and Despina Symons actively participated in the IUCN Congress, held in Hawaii (1-10 September). FEG had been actively involved in the preparations throughout the year, participating in discussions and providing amendments to the draft motions being submitted by IUCN members with the view to ensure a ...
Serge Garcia was invited to participate to this high level Plenary Panel session. The aim of this 40 minutes’ session was to enable a broader strategic discussion and horizon scanning on priority topics regarding fisheries. It was supposed to allow the panellists to engage on selected topics, giving them a ...
Aiming at generating innovative ideas and practical ways forward to achieve the SDG 14 on Oceans, the workshop considered how are governments, civil society, businesses and communities delivering on the SDG 14? How are they addressing trade-offs between SDG 14 aspirations and other goals? What are the key elements of ...
This event aimed at critically examining the strengths and short-comings of these new assessments and information sources, and determining how they can be used collectively to advance the dialogue on marine biodiversity, its conservation and sustainable use. This knowledge Café, was well attended, and participants had many constructive ideas for ...
This meeting, that EBCD co-sponsored, was organized by Djibril Ly, from the Observatoire du Parc National du Banc d'Arguin (Mauritania), member of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). Focussing initially on the Banc D’Arguin situation, it brought around the table a number of members from NGOs active in programmes ...
Sustainable Ocean Initiative: “Global dialogue with regional seas organizations and regional fisheries bodies on accelerating progress towards the AICHI biodiversity target”
This workshop was organized at the initiative of the CBD/SOI (Sustainable Ocean Initiative) and UNEP in collaboration with the FAO, the IUCN/CEM/FEG, RFMOS, GOBI (Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative), and the Government of the Republic of Korea. For the first time the workshop brought together the Regional Seas Organizations (RSOs) such ...