High Seas Alliance: Suggestions for Consideration by the Preparatory Committee, March 2016

On June 19 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 69/292 in which it decided to develop an international legally binding instrument under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. The resolution provides for a preparatory committee “to make substantive recommendations to the General Assembly on the elements of a draft text” of the instrument. The High Seas Alliance submits the following suggestions for consideration by the Preparatory Committee.

Download Submission for PrepCom1, here.

High Seas Environmental Impact Assessments – Pew Briefing

• English
• Spanish
• French

Marine Protected Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction – Pew Briefing

• English
• Spanish
• French

Interventions delivered:

March 28th:

• Pew & Greenpeace – opening remarks
• Ocean Care – opening remarks

March 29th:

• Pew, Greenpeace, NRDC on behalf of HSA – statement on scope
• Pew, Greenpeace, NRDC on behalf of HSA – statement on principles

March 30th:

• WWF – statement on MGRs
• Pew, Greenpeace, NRDC – statement on area based management, including MPAs

March 31st:

• Pew, Greenpeace, WWF, NRDC on behalf of HSA – statement on EIA 
• Greenpeace, Pew, WWF, NRDC on behalf of HSA – statement on capacity-building & transfer of marine technology

April 1st:

• Greenpeace, Pew, WWF, NRDC , Oceancare and HSA – WG statement on area-based management tools

April 4th:

• NRDC on behalf of HSA – WG statement on EIA and scope
• Pew, Greenpeace, NRDC, WWF, OceanCare on behalf of HSA – WG statement on EIA

April 5th:

• Greenpeace – WG statement on EIAs 

April 6th:

• Greenpeace – WG statement on capacity building
• Greenpeace, Pew, WWF, NRDC on behalf of the HSA