Summary
On Wednesday, 29 March, delegates to the the third session of the Preparatory Committee on the elements of a draft text of an international legally binding instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (PrepCom 3) reconvened in the informal working group on area-based management tools (ABMTs), including marine protected areas (MPAs). The informal working group focused on: definitions; process, including submission of proposals, assessment, review and monitoring; and approaches and principles. In the afternoon, following a short plenary, the informal working group on environmental impact assessments (EIAs) started its work.
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Alice Revell, New Zealand, Facilitator of the informal working group on ABMTs, including MPAs, opened
the session
Jihyun Lee, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Merete Tandstad, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Haryo Budi Nugroho, Indonesia
Lois Young, Belize
Yves Suter, Switzerland
Sameer Ghazi, Saudi Arabia
Danica Stent, New Zealand
Rena Lee, Singapore
L-R: John Brincat and Sophie Mirgaux, EU
L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (UNDOALOS); Alice Revell, New Zealand,
Facilitator of the informal working group on ABMTs,
including MPAs; and Valentina Germani, UNDOALOS
Angel Horna, Peru
Jeem Lippwe, Federated States of Micronesia
Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga, Mexico
Rolando Castro, Costa Rica
Hina Saeed Baig, Pakistan
Michael Googan, Australia
Liz Karan, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Stefan Ásmundsson, North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission
Peter Hamilton Flewwelling, North Pacific Fisheries Commission
Darius Campbell, Commission of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (the ‘OSPAR Convention')
Duncan Currie, Greenpeace International
Cristóbal Hernández Castillo, Chile
L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UNDOALOS; Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte,
Brazil; Alice Hicuburundi, UNDOALOS; and Charlotte Salpin, UNDOALOS
L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UNDOALOS; René Lefeber, the Netherlands, Facilitator of the informal working group on environmental impact assessments; and Yoshinobu Takei, UNDOALOS
Sergey Leonidchenko, Russian Federation
Rogelio Villanueva Jr., the Philippines
Linlin Li, China
Mehdi Remaoun, Algeria
Julian Jackson, The Pew Charitable Trusts, in conversation with delegates from Ireland
Michael Googan, Australia, in conversation with Natalie Morris-Sharma, Singapore