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BackgroundClimate change is already impacting and threatening coastal communities and indigenous peoples in both developed and developing countries as well as small island developing States (SIDS). The continuous and increasing emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have serious consequences on oceans. Increases in acidity, warming, altered circulation patterns and sea level rise that oceans are actually experiencing are a result of excessive CO2 emissions. The oceans play a central role in climate--generating oxygen, absorbing carbon dioxide and regulating climate and temperature. But, the oceans’ ability to provide these life-sustaining services is now at risk. And, the more than 50% of the human population that lives in 183 coastal countries, including 44 small island nations, are at the frontline of climate change and will suffer disproportionate impacts from ocean warming, sea level rise, extreme weather events, and ocean acidification.
The Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts in association with the Secretaries of Environment and Natural Resources of the Mexican States of Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatan, and the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry (SEMARNAT), Mexico, will bring together Parties and Observer States, intergovernmental organizations, NGOs, science, industry and members of civil society during a day especially dedicated to oceans— December 4, 2010--at the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP16) to be held from November 29 to December 10, 2010 in Cancún, Mexico. PurposeOceans Day at Cancun will draw high-level attention to the oceans issues at the climate talks at COP16 in Cancun. The sessions will highlight the direct link between climate change, the health of the oceans, and human well-being, as well as the need for sufficient funding to support bold mitigation and adaptation actions that will minimize climate change impacts on coastal communities and ocean resources, including impacts on water supply for communities and on water allocation to ocean and coastal ecosystems. OrganizersCo-organizers:Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands
Global Environment Facility
Secretaries of Environment and Natural Resources of the Mexican States of Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatan
Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), Mexico Collaborating Organizations:Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
Oceana
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat
Venue:Kukulcan III Now Jade Riviera Cancun Summary of the Oceans Day at Cancun, Oceans: Essential to Life, Essential to Climate
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The Oceans Day at Nagoya—the first-ever Oceans Day at a CBD Conference of the Parties-- held on October 23, 2010, during the Tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD (COP 10, October 18-29, 2010) in Nagoya, Japan, brought together more than 150 participants from 35 countries representing all sectors of the global oceans community--governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and the scientific community--to emphasize the importance of marine and coastal biodiversity as a common concern of humankind and essential for preserving life on Earth. Building on the discussions on marine and coastal biodiversity held at the Global Oceans Conference 2010, at UNESCO, Paris, May 3-7, 2010, the Oceans Day at Nagoya addressed the major threats to the world’s marine and coastal biodiversity, which is exacerbated by climate change.
Oceans Day at Nagoya addressed the status and trends in biodiversity loss and progress made in achieving biodiversity targets, examined various tools and approaches to conserving and sustainably utilizing marine and coastal biodiversity, and discussed potential next steps in advancing the global oceans agenda. Oceans Day featured presentations from panelists organized into thematic panels focused on major issues in marine and coastal biodiversity.
The co-chairs of the Nagoya Oceans Day drafted the Nagoya Oceans Statement, which called for the high-level government representatives gathered at the CBD COP-10 to rekindle the political will and commitment of resources to halt marine biodiversity loss, restore degraded marine habitats, and to establish global representative and resilient networks of marine and coastal protected areas, in the next decade, 2011-2020, and called for a new process of setting new marine and coastal biodiversity targets at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012 (Rio+20) and at the CBD COP 11 in 2012 in order to move the marine biodiversity agenda forward.
Nagoya Oceans Day Summary 
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Nagoya Oceans Statement
Introduction to Oceans Day in Nagoya, Dr. Biliana Cicin-Sain
Nagoya Oceans Day Program
Policy Brief on Marine Biodiversity and Networks of Marine Protected Areas
Link to CBD COP10
Outcomes from CBD COP 10:
CBD Press release
Draft COP 10 report
Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, part of the Working Group 1 report
Draft decision on marine and coastal biodiversity
Draft decision on Access and Benefit-Sharing
Nagoya Oceans Day Contact:
Joseph Appiott
Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands
Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716, USA
Tel: 302.831.8086
Email: jappiott@udel.edu
Biodiversity has taken center stage in 2010, which was designated as the International Year of Biodiversity by the United Nations. Parties to the CBD gathered in Japan to assess progress in achieving global biodiversity targets and decide on actions to reduce biodiversity loss in the next decade. Marine and coastal biodiversity, which is facing increased threats from overfishing, rapid coastal development, pollution, and climate change, among other impacts, is one of the main topics under discussion at CBD COP 10.
The Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, adopted at the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1995, reaffirmed the critical need to address the conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal biological diversity, and urged Parties to initiate immediate action to ensure the long-term health and well-being of marine and coastal biodiversity. Although the Jakarta Mandate may have been implemented at different levels, by various actors, and to different extents in different countries and regions, the overall results are deemed unsatisfactory. However, some progress has been made in advancing cross-sectoral, integrated management of marine resources and space; enhancing science-based policy development; strengthening inter-disciplinary scientific partnerships at global and regional scale; and promoting engagement of multi-stakeholders including ocean industries and high level political leaderships.
We call on ocean leaders from governments, international agencies, non-governmental organizations, scientific institutions, and the private sector to mobilize and seize the opportunity to achieve a significant ocean outcome at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) at Rio de Janeiro to be held on June 4-6, 2012. The new vision embodied in the 1992 Earth Summit (UN Conference on Environment and Development) represented a major paradigm shift that changed the world and many of us around the world. Twenty years later, we must take advantage of Rio+20 as an opportunity to assess where we began and what we have achieved, and to craft the way to a new future where we can all live and prosper in a low-carbon global economy in health and harmony with nature.
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