Partnership Dialogue 2 - Managing, protecting, conserving and restoring marine and coastal ecosystems
Tue 06 Jun 2017, 10.00 am — Wed 03 Feb 2021, 12.00 pm
Background
Introduction
Marine and coastal ecosystems, which include natural assets such as marine living resources and a range of important habitats or features, such as mangroves, coral reefs, seagrass beds, coastal tidal marshes, seamounts, thermal vents and cold water corals, are crucial for human well-being and sustainable development. They provide humans with food, water, medicines, construction materials, energy, transport, shoreline stabilization, coastline protection and erosion prevention, climate regulation, oxygen production, maintenance of biodiversity, as well as recreation, aesthetic, cultural, religious and spiritual services. Marine and coastal ecosystems act as carbon sinks absorbing annually about one-fourth of the total annual anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide.1 They provide a vital basis for the livelihoods of many coastal communities, particularly resource-dependent communities in developing countries. The ecosystem services marine and coastal ecosystems provide have substantial economic value – estimated by studies on the order of trillions of US dollars annually.
Co-chairs
- H.E. Mr. Tommy Remengesau, President of Palau
- H.E. Ms. Silvia Velo, Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, Italy
Moderator
- Ms. Martha Rojas-Urrego, Secretary General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Panellists
- Mr. Lin Shanqing, Deputy Administrator, State Oceanic Administration, China
- Ms. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity
- Mr. Jake Rice, Chief Scientist - Emeritus, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
- Ms. Cyrie Sendashonga, Global Director, Program and Policy Group, IUCN
Registered List of Participants
States
First preference (speaking slot guaranteed)
- Cook Islands (HG)
- Samoa (HG)
- Brazil (M)
- Egypt (M)
- Grenada (M)
- Monaco (M)
- Sri Lanka (M)
- Sweden (M)
- Timor-Leste (M)
- Tonga (M)
- United Arab Emirates (M)
- Germany (VM)
- Canada (CD)
- Colombia (CD)
- Holy See (CD)
- Nepal (CD)
- Philippines (CD)
- Seychelles (CD)
- France (TBD)
- Togo (TBD)
Second preference (possible speaking slot)
- Saint Lucia (HS)
- Gabon (M)
- Ireland (M)
- Kiribati (M)
- Romania (M)
- Greece (CD)
- Israel (CD)
- Portugal (M)
Other participants and observers
- Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (Helsinki Commission)
- Pacific Community
- Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
- French Polynesia
- United Nations Development Programme
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- Drammeh Institute, Inc
- Mediterranean Protected Areas Network
- Ocean Sanctuary Alliance
- PEMSEA- Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia
- Union Nationale des Travailleurs Democrates
- World Wide Fund for Nature International
