Summary
On Thursday, 6 April, the plenary of 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) met throughout the day. Delegates continued discussions on environmental impact assessments, and then tackled capacity building and technology transfer, and cross-cutting issues, including institutional arrangements, monitoring, review, compliance and dispute settlement.
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has providing daily web coverage, daily reports and a summary and analysis report from the 3rd Session of the Preparatory Committee Established by the UN General Assembly Resolution 69/292 “Development of an International Legally Binding Instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction.” Our summary and analysis report is available in HTML and PDF.
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Cristóbal Hernández Castillo, Chile
Maruthadu Sudhakar, India
Duncan Currie, Greenpeace International
Lydia Slobodian, IUCN
Mamadou Diallo, Senegal
L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (UNDOALOS); Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga, Mexico; Alice Hicuburundi, UNDOALOS; and Charlotte
Salpin, UNDOALOS
Rena Lee, Singapore, Facilitator of the informal working group on capacity building and transfer
of marine technology
Juliette Babb-Riley, Barbados, on behalf of the Caribbean
Community
(CARICOM)
Margo Deiye, Nauru, on behalf of the Pacific Small Island
Developing
States (PSIDS)
Leonito Bacalando Jr., Federated States of Micronesia
Ismail Raushan Zahir, Maldives, on behalf of the
Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Marc Richir, EU
Siai Taylor, Cook Islands
Luke Roughton, New Zealand
Dongmei Tang, China
Paulo Chiarelli, Brazil
Dilli Raj Ghimire, Nepal
Tevita Suka Mangisi, Tonga
Harriet Harden-Davies, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Aldo Alexandrow, Venezuela
Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil
Diedre Mills, Jamaica
Carlos Garcia, Guatemala
Alain Tellier, Canada
Randy Bumbury, Guyana
Mehdi Remaoun, Algeria
Evan Bloom, US, in a conversation with Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil
Delegates from the African Group consulting
L-R: Angel Horna, Peru; Derek Campbell, US; Charlotte Salpin, UNDOALOS;
and Javier Gorostegui, Chile
L-R: Maria Claudia Velez Crismatt, Colombia; Luis Orozco, Colombia;
and Gina Guillén-Grillo, Costa Rica
L-R: Anca Leroy, France, in conversation with Susan Whelan, the Holy See
Delegates from the EU consulting