{"id":316,"date":"2017-12-14T12:49:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T12:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/?p=316"},"modified":"2024-04-19T06:23:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T06:23:43","slug":"4th-potsdam-ocean-governance-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/14\/4th-potsdam-ocean-governance-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Potsdam Ocean Governance Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives from science, policymaking and civil society met at the IASS on 13-14 December at the\u00a04th Potsdam Ocean Governance Workshop.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The discussions at the workshop focused on three topics: Working Group 1 on \u201cUnlocking the potential of SDG interactions\u201d; Working Group 2 on \u201cAchieving Ocean Sustainability through Voluntary Commitments\u201d and Working Group 3 on \u201cBuilding Regional Ocean Partnerships\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Unger (IASS) drew an optimistic conclusion following two days of discussions: \u201cThe ocean is in a deep crisis. But all the international engagement we have seen in 2017 gives hope that change is possible.\u201d What is needed now, he argued, is a transparent system to track the voluntary commitments made by states and stakeholders, coupled with stronger cooperation within marine regions and a holistic approach to the implementation of the different SDGs linked to the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the workshop will be fed into future policy briefs and scientific publications, including contributions to a special issue of the journal \u201cMarine Policy\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Potsdam-Ocean-Governance-Workshop-2-1024x660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Potsdam-Ocean-Governance-Workshop-2-1024x660.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Potsdam-Ocean-Governance-Workshop-2-460x297.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Potsdam-Ocean-Governance-Workshop-2-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Potsdam-Ocean-Governance-Workshop-2-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Potsdam-Ocean-Governance-Workshop-2-233x150.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Potsdam-Ocean-Governance-Workshop-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group picture of the participants of the 4th Potsdam Ocean Governance Workshop @IASS\/Dirk Enters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives from science, policymaking and civil society met at the IASS on 13-14 December at the\u00a04th Potsdam Ocean Governance Workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}