The newsletter highlights a Technical Training Workshop at which representatives from West African countries learned how to use the available data compiled through the West Africa regional desktop study to start building the submission project, as part of the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles.
November 2011: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP)/GRID-Arendal Marine Programme released the November 2011 edition of its newsletter. Marine Newsletter #23 features an update on the UNEP Shelf Programme, which aims to assist West African countries in the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles.
According to the newsletter, the first Technical Training Workshop was held in Arendal, Norway, from 14-25 November 2011. Attended by representatives from Cape Verde, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mauritania and Senegal, participants learned how to use the available data compiled through the West Africa regional desktop study (completed in 2010) to start building the submission project.
The newsletter also notes UNEP/GRID-Arendal’s development of a new polar base map within its interactive mapping tool, as well as collaboration with WWF in the development of an Arctic Interactive Map. [UNEP/GRID-Arendal Newsletter]