Tipo
Artigos em Revista
Tipo de Documento
Artigo Completo
Título
The Need for a Global Ocean Vision Within Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction: A Key Role for Strategic Environmental Assessment
Participantes na publicação
Maria Adelaide Ferreira (Author)
MARE - Centro de Ciências do Mar e Ambiente, -Universidade de Lisboa
MARE
David E. Johnson (Author)
Francisco Andrade (Author)
MARE - Centro de Ciências do Mar e Ambiente, -Universidade de Lisboa
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
Resumo
An ecosystem-based forward-looking vision for the global ocean, encompassing ocean health and productivity, ecosystem integrity and resilience, incorporating area beyond national jurisdiction, is fundamental. A vision which is holistic and universally acceptable to guide future sustainable ocean policies, plans and programmes (PPPs). We argue that Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the best available framework to develop such a vision and its suitability for this purpose should be recognised within the on-going process to negotiate an International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI) for the conservation and sustainable use of Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement). This perspective paper justifies why such an ecosystem-based Global Ocean Vision is essential. It then describes the key characteristics it must integrate and how it can be elaborated in the framework of a collective SEA within the BBNJ process. We advocate expanding text in Part I General Provisions of the draft BBNJ Agreement to include development of such a global ocean vision. We conclude by highlighting the opportunity and timeliness of this proposal, with the fifth session of the IGC of BBNJ tentatively scheduled for August 2022.
Data de Submissão/Pedido
2022-02-17
Data de Aceitação
2022-06-09
Data de Publicação
2022-07-15
Suporte
Frontiers in Marine Science
Identificadores da Publicação
ISSN - 2296-7745
Editora
Frontiers Media SA
Identificadores do Documento
DOI -
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.878077
URL -
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.878077
Keywords
ecosystem-based approach
global ocean vision
strategic environmental assessment
UNCLOS
BBNJ Agreement
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