The November 2012 edition of the newsletter of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)/GRID-Arendal Marine Programme spotlights a capacity-building workshop for integrated marine management in West Africa, held under the auspices of the Abidjan Convention.
It also provides a clickable map of the world's largest national marine reserve network in Australia.
30 November 2012: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP)/GRID-Arendal Marine Programme has released the November 2012 edition of its newsletter (Marine Newsletter #10), featuring: a Sustainable Seas workshop held for West Africa; a map of Australia’s marine reserve network; recent and upcoming marine-related events; and GRID-Arendal’s contribution to a book on environmental security in the Arctic Ocean.
GRID-Arendal hosted an exploratory workshop in July 2012 under the auspices of the Secretariat of the Abidjan Convention, to identify capacity building needs and priorities for developing a full-scale capacity building programme to develop products and tools for integrated marine management, and to support processes such as marine spatial planning, marine environmental indicators and regional marine assessments. The workshop also discussed ecosystem-based management (EbM), the involvement of the offshore oil and gas sector in EbM, and the role of marine data and information in EbM.
The Newsletter also features a clickable map of Australia’s network of Commonwealth marine reserves, which are the world’s biggest. [Publication: Marine Newsletter #10]