UN Oceans Conference Partnership Dialogue 7 - Enhancing Conservation

Enhancing the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Conferences
• Video Length: 02:56:50
• Production Date: 9 June 2017
• Asset Language: Arabic; Chinese; English; French; Russian; Spanish
• Subject Topical: INTERNATIONAL LAW; LAW OF THE SEA; MARINE RESOURCES; MARINE RESOURCES CONSERVATION; OCEANS
• MAMS Id: 1904671
• Parent Id: 1904259

Description

In the morning, the Ocean Conference held a partnership dialogue on “Enhancing the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea”. Moderated by Heraldo Muñoz, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chile, and co-chaired by Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Minister for International Development and the Pacific of Australia, and Judy Wakhungu, Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Natural Resources of Kenya, it featured presentations by Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel; Michael Lodge, Secretary-General, International Seabed Authority; Biliana Cicin-Sain, President, Global Ocean Forum, Professor of Marine Policy, University of Delaware; and Florence Galletti, Director of Research, Law of the Sea and Environmental Law, French National Research Institute for Development.

Also speaking today were representatives of Barbados, Togo, Honduras, Nepal, India, Trinidad and Tobago, Germany, Mexico and Cyprus.

Representatives of the Ship and Ocean Foundation, Observatorio Para Arrecifes, Wildlife Conservation Society, Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Northeast Atlantic and the Children and Youth Major Group also took the floor.