The Contribution of Science and the Transfer of Marine Technology to the Implementation of a Potential BBNJ Instrument

03 April 2017

United Nations Headquarters

New York,
United States

Annotated Agenda

1 Welcome Remarks
1.1 H.E. Ambassador Mr Marc Pecsteen (Belgium)
1.2 H.E. Ambassador Mrs Lois M. Young (Belize)
1.3 Prof. Peter Haugan (Chairperson of the IOC of UNESCO)
2 Panel Presentations
2.1 Key priorities for SIDS - Report from Belgium SIDS BBNJ meeting (H. E. Ambassador Mr. Ahmed Sareer, The Maldives and Chair of AOSIS)
2.2 Research capacity and infrastructure, drawing from GOSR findings (Harriet Harden-Davies, IOC consultant, Australia)
2.3 TMT guidelines operationalization (Asha Singh, director Environmental Governance Consulting/IOC consultant, Guyana)
2.4 Data integration and synthesis technologies for national to global analysis and understanding of marine ecology (Sky Bristol, USGS/OBIS-USA and IOC/OBIS Co-Chair)
3 Questions and Answers and general discussion
4 Concluding remarks