International Ocean Stewardship Forum 2010
Online booking is now open on the event website
3rd Ocean Forum focuses on Global Entitlements to Ocean Space and Biodiversity and the Marine Environment 26 - 28 May 2010
Designed to promote greater integration between the legal and technical aspects of marine policy-making, the International Ocean Stewardship Forum 2010 will take place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton from 26 - 28 May 2010.
Now into its third year, the overall theme is “Taking Stock – the State of the Oceans”. The aim of bringing together leading marine scientists, policy-makers and legal experts to develop an integrated approach to the protection of the marine environment echoes previous years’ events which were widely considered a great success by those who attended.
Two specific themes will provide the focus for 2010 -
Global Entitlements to Ocean Space: The New Order of Opportunity and Challenge will examine the measures which can be brought to bear to minimize dispute and potential conflict issues which have been highlighted by our new maps of the world’s oceans.
Biodiversity and the Marine Environment, will look at the management of resources and how seabed mapping and habitat classification might assist (or not) the use of those resources while still conserving biological communities at the regional scale.
A series of keynote presentations supported by core topic talks on related current and emerging issues facing the marine community will provide the focus for discussion and analysis as well as a series of working/focus groups and panel discussions. Confirmed speakers include Nii Odunton, Secretary General of the International Seabed Authority, Patricio Bernal, Executive Secretary of the IOC, Judge Dolliver Nelson of the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea, Mask Tasker (JNCC), Alex Rogers (Institute of Zoology, London), Tim Daniels (Edwards, Angel, Palmer & Dodge UK LLP), Peter Croker (Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf), Alex Eleferink (Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, MENAS Borders, Professor Ian Wright and Dr David Billett (NOCS). Further programme updates are available at the website www.oceanstewardship.com
The International Ocean Stewardship Forum is organised under the guidance and leadership of the UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) group at the National Oceanography Centre. The UNCLOS group delivers independent, high-quality scientific advice on territorial sovereignty, marine scientific research, resource management, and the preservation of the marine environment to bodies including the UK Government and the United Nations.
The group was delighted with the reception that the past two Fora have received and the level of interest already being shown in the 2010 event.
Online booking is now open on the event website – www.oceanstewardship.com – and further information is available by emailing info@oceanstewardship.com, or telephone Deborah Yarrow +44 (0)2380 596542.
