stakeholder engagement – practices and regulation implications
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Stakeholder Engagement – practices and regulation implications. Mikhail Babenko WWF Global Arctic Programme. WWF Roles. Building on other stakeholders knowledge. One of the Stakeholders. Advocating for Stakeholder engagement. Challenges in the Arctic. Challenges in the Arctic. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Stakeholder Engagement – practices and regulation implications
Mikhail Babenko
WWF Global Arctic Programme
WWF Roles
One of the Stakeholders
Building on other stakeholders knowledge
Advocating for Stakeholder engagement
Challenges in the Arctic
Challenges in the Arctic
Challenges in the Arctic
Prirazlomnoye field
West Kamchatka Shelf
Gas in water
According to our review dissolubility of gas in the water column depends on many factors and depth of water column is one of them
Key principles
• Transparency • Engagement• Ecosystem based management• Management of marine areas use • Precautionary approach
Arctic shielded from the worst effects of rapid change through
effective international stewardship promoting healthy living
systems to the benefit of local peoples and all humanity.
Who will be the responders?
What is available on key principles?
Precautionary principle \ approachPrinciple 15 of the Rio Declaration
Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks arts. 5(c), 6
Convention on Biological Diversity, pmbl. 6‐9. (indirect reference to the principle)
Convention on the IMO, art 38 (c)
What is available on key principles?
Protection of ecologically, socially, and culturally important areasUNCLOS recognizes a broad obligation to preserve the environment, even beyond national areas of responsibility UNCLOS, art. 192.
The Convention on Biological Diversity requires states, as far as possible and as appropriate, to "establish a system of protected areas or areas where special measures need to be taken to conserve biological diversity"
What is available on key principles?
Public access to information and participationThe OSPAR Convention, to which Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden are Parties, broadly defines public access requirementsThe Helsinki Convention, to which Denmark, Finland, Russia, and Sweden are Parties, describes specific types of information to which the public has access: permits, the results of water sampling, water-quality objectives, and the results of water-quality compliance monitoring.
What is available on key principles?
Mindful further that indigenous peoples, local communities, local and regional governments, and individual Arctic residents can provide valuable resources and knowledge regarding the Arctic marine environment in support of oil pollution preparedness and response,
Recognizing also the expertise and roles of various stakeholders relating to oil pollution preparedness and response
Each Party, subject to its national law and international law, should endeavor to make information provided to other Parties under paragraph 1 of this Article publicly available (Art 12, 2 )
Thank you!
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