Series of inter-regional dialogues on high seas governance in Africa<\/strong><\/p>\nOn July 22nd, 2021, and February 22nd, 2022, the STRONG High Seas project and the Abidjan Convention Secretariat organised the second series of dialogues, providing a space for stakeholders from the Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean regions to informally discuss high seas governance in the context of the BBNJ treaty negotiations.<\/p>\n
Participants discussed the future relationship of the BBNJ treaty with existing regional bodies and frameworks and on the potential role of such bodies in the designation, implementation and monitoring of area-based management tools and marine protected areas. Examples of this future relationship were taken from existing regional organisations, such as the Sargasso Sea Commission.<\/p>\n
Participants highlighted the difference in capacity of regional organisations, which could prevent them from engaging in the implementation of the future BBNJ treaty. The future BBNJ treaty could play an important role in addressing the fragmentation of the global ocean governance framework. The delay in negotiations due to the COVID-19 pandemic allows more time to discuss the future relationship between the BBNJ treaty and existing bodies and agreements. Participants discussed the relevance of a compliance committee as a possible mechanism to support the implementation of the future BBNJ treaty.<\/p>\n
The current draft BBNJ treaty is still vague regarding the rights and obligations of various stakeholders in terms of the establishment and implementation of area-based management tools and marine protected areas in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction. Moreover, the question of how to protect areas outside of the management areas of regional organisations still needs to be resolved.<\/p>\n
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The STRONG High Seas project, together with its partners the Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS) and the Abidjan Convention Secretariat organised a series of Inter-Regional Dialogues on High Seas Governance in the South Pacific and Africa regions. A summary report is available here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2905,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/2905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}