UNCSD March informal-informal Side Event Annoucement:
Date:
- UNCSD First round of informal-informal negotiations on the zero draft of the outcome document
- Mar 22, 2012
Location:
- United Nations Headquarters
- North Lawn Building, Conference Room 7
- New York City, New York
Description:
1. A green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and
2. the institutional framework for sustainable development.
Specifically the side event will aim to provide a roadmap for ocean sustainability by:
- addressing why high seas biodiversity is important for achieving sustainable development objectives;
- outlining the failings of current management of high seas biodiversity; and
- discussing the implications of paragraph 80 for closing governance gaps relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
List of Speakers:Moderator: Lisa Speer, Director of the International Oceans Program, The Natural Resources Defense Council
Speaker: Dr. Tony Haymet, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
Speaker: Ambassador Jean-Pierre Thébault, Roving Ambassador for the Environment and Rio+20, France
Speaker: Dr. Diré Tladi, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Republic of South Africa to the United Nations
Speaker: Dr. Susan Lieberman, Director of International Policy, Pew Environment Group
Speaker: Dr. Tony Haymet, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
Speaker: Ambassador Jean-Pierre Thébault, Roving Ambassador for the Environment and Rio+20, France
Speaker: Dr. Diré Tladi, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Republic of South Africa to the United Nations
Speaker: Dr. Susan Lieberman, Director of International Policy, Pew Environment Group
Please visit the link below for more information:
http://www.pewenvironment.org/
Special thanks to Richard Charter