Previous relevant documents:

- By the World Ocean Network: click here

- By Christophe Lefebvre, IUCN Councillor, French Marine Protected Areas Agency: click here

The Oceans Day at Nagoya—the first-ever Oceans Day at a CBD Conference of the Parties-- held on October 23, 2010, during the Tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD (COP 10, October 18-29, 2010) in Nagoya, Japan, brought together more than 150 participants from 35 countries representing all sectors of the global oceans community--governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and the scientific community--to emphasize the importance of marine and coastal biodiversity as a common concern of humankind and essential for preserving life on Earth. Building on the discussions on marine and coastal biodiversity held at the Global Oceans Conference 2010, at UNESCO, Paris, May 3-7, 2010, the Oceans Day at Nagoya addressed the major threats to the world’s marine and coastal biodiversity, which is exacerbated by climate change.

The Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, adopted at the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1995, reaffirmed the critical need to address the conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal biological diversity, and urged Parties to initiate immediate action to ensure the long-term health and well-being of marine and coastal biodiversity. Although the Jakarta Mandate may have been implemented at different levels, by various actors, and to different extents in different countries and regions, the overall results are deemed unsatisfactory. However, some progress has been made in advancing cross-sectoral, integrated management of marine resources and space; enhancing science-based policy development; strengthening inter-disciplinary scientific partnerships at global and regional scale; and promoting engagement of multi-stakeholders including ocean industries and high level political leaderships.

Oceans Day at Nagoya addressed the status and trends in biodiversity loss and progress made in achieving biodiversity targets, examined various tools and approaches to conserving and sustainably utilizing marine and coastal biodiversity, and discussed potential next steps in advancing the global oceans agenda.  Oceans Day featured presentations from panelists organized into thematic panels focused on major issues in marine and coastal biodiversity.

The co-chairs of the Nagoya Oceans Day drafted the Nagoya Oceans Statement, which called for the high-level government representatives gathered at the CBD COP-10 to rekindle the political will and commitment of resources to halt marine biodiversity loss, restore degraded marine habitats, and to establish global representative and resilient networks of marine and coastal protected areas, in the next decade, 2011-2020, and called for a new process of setting new marine and coastal biodiversity targets at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012 (Rio+20) and at the CBD COP 11 in 2012 in order to move the marine biodiversity agenda forward.

Source: Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands: website

Governments meeting at the 10^th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP10) have approved a step change for biodiversity: a new Strategic Plan for the next ten years to reduce the current pressures on the planet’s biodiversity and take urgent action to save and restore nature; an agreed new protocol on access and benefit sharing; and have pledged some serious new resources to bring the agreements to life.

• To learn more about the Plan, read the IUCN article: click here.

Dans cet article d'Yves Hénoque d'IFREMER, vous trouverez des faits marquants de COP 10 vus sous l'angle de la mer et du littoral.

• Cliquez ici pour télécharger le document PDF

Harrison Ford et Edward Norton s'impliquent chacun à leur manière dans l'Année de la biodiversité.

Harrison Ford qui était présent à Nagoya en tant que membre de Conservation International souhaite un engagement des Etats Unis. Lire l'article du Monde et du Guardian.

Edward Norton, quant à lui, a été choisi comme Ambassadeur de bonne volonté des Nations Unies pour la Biodiversité. Cliquez ici pour voir la vidéo.

La Commission de l'UICN sur l'Education et la Communication a organisé le 21 octobre un événement parallèle intitulé "donner vie à la science" et destiné à discuter des différentes manières de communiquer sur la biodiversité. Les présentations ont porté sur les défis majeurs auxquels les experts en communication sur la biodiversité sont confrontés, de la psychologie de l'auditoire, à des obstacles organisationnels, jusqu’aux problèmes de financement et des ressources.

• Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ici.

Présentation à Nagoya par l'économiste indien Pavan Sukhdev, mercredi 20 octobre des conclusions de son étude sur "l'économie de la biodiversité et des services écosystémiques". En lire plus dans cet article du Monde.

La Norvège elle présentera un indice pour évaluer l'état de la nature avant une possible évaluation économique des services rendus par la nature. Voir l'article du Monde.

• D'autres informations dans le compte-rendu de la journée du mercredi 20 octobre du COP 10.

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The 4^th International Meeting "Acting together for the future of the Blue Planet", in link with International Year of Biodiversity 2010, was held on 9^th-12^th May, 2010 at Nausicaá, Boulogne sur Mer, FRANCE.

It proposed the first World Ocean Academy on the 9^th May and followed the 5^th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands, 3^rd-7^th May, 2010 - UNESCO, Paris, FRANCE. "Ensuring Survival, Preserving Life, Improving Governance; Oceans, Climate, Biodiversity: from Copenhagen 2009 to Nagoya 2010."