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Marine Regions Forum an International Stakeholder Forum to Strengthen Regional Ocean Governance TEXTE 101/2021 Final report Marine Regions Forum An international stakeholder forum to strengthen regional ocean governance by: Dr. Barbara Neumann, Sebastian Unger, Laura Weiand Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS), Potsdam Dr. Julien Rochette, Glen Wright Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), Paris Alexander Müller TMG – Think Tank for Sustainability (TMG), Berlin publisher: German Environment Agency German Environment Agency TEXTE 101/2021 Ressortforschungsplan of the Federal Ministry for the Enviroment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Project No. (FKZ) 3717 25 261 0 Report No. FB000520/ENG Final report Marine Regions Forum An international stakeholder forum to strengthen regional ocean governance by Dr. Barbara Neumann, Sebastian Unger, Laura Weiand Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS), Potsdam Dr. Julien Rochette, Glen Wright Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), Paris Alexander Müller TMG – Think Tank for Sustainability (TMG), Berlin On behalf of the German Environment Agency TEXTE Marine Regions Forum – An international stakeholder forum to strengthen regional ocean governance Imprint Publisher Umweltbundesamt Wörlitzer Platz 1 06844 Dessau-Roßlau Tel: +49 340-2103-0 Fax: +49 340-2103-2285 [email protected] Internet: www.umweltbundesamt.de /umweltbundesamt.de /umweltbundesamt Report performed by: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS) Berliner Str. 130 14467 Potsdam Report completed in: January 2021 Edited by: Section II 2.3 Protection of the Marine Environment Dr. Manuela Krakau Publication as pdf: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen ISSN 1862-4804 Dessau-Roßlau, July 2021 The responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the author(s). 4 TEXTE Marine Regions Forum – An international stakeholder forum to strengthen regional ocean governance Acknowledgements We would like to express our very great appreciation to the members of the Advisory Board, Joseph Appiott (Secretariat of Convention on Biological Diversity), Abou Bamba (Abidjan Convention Secretariat), Jessica Battle (WWF International), Julian Barbière (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO), Meg Caldwell (David and Lucille Packard Foundation), Darius Campbell (North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission), Maria Damanaki (SYSTEMIQ; The Paradise International Foundation; former at The Nature Conservancy), David Freestone (Sargasso Sea Commission), Kristina Gjerde (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Fredrik Haag (International Maritime Organization), Lorna Inniss (Caribbean Environment Programme), David Johnson (Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative), Markus Knigge (Blue Action Fund), Kosi Latu (Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme), Gaetano Leone (Barcelona Convention Secretariat), Ronan Long (World Maritime University), Piero Manini (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), Nilanto Perbowo (Secretary General of the IDN Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Palau), Rashid Sumaila (University of British Columbia), Kristian Teleki (World Resources Institute), Dire Tladi (University of Pretoria), Ambassador Ngedikes Olai Uludong (Permanent Representative of Palau to the UN), Osvaldo Urrutia (South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation), Ambassador Méntor Villagómez (Secretariat of the Permanent Commission for the South Pacific), Martin Visbeck (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel) and Dixon Waruinge (Nairobi Convention Secretariat). Our sincerest gratitude also goes to the members of the Steering Group, Ann-France Didier (Ministry of the Ecological Transition of France), Raphaël Goulet (European Commission), Jacob Hagberg (Ministry or Environment and Energy, Sweden), Heike Imhoff (Germany Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety), Manuela Krakau (German Environment Agency), Marijana Mance (European Commission), Takehiro Nakamura (UN Environment Programme), Ingo Narberhaus (Germany Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety), Stefanie Schmidt (European Commission) and Andrea Weiß (German Environment Agency), including previous members of the Steering Group Jorid Hammersland (Swedish Ministry for the Environment and Energy), Malgaj (European Commission), and Andreas Papaconstantinou (European Commission), for their valuable and constructive guidance, suggestions and collaboration during the developmentMatjaž and implementation of the Marine Regions Forum. Their willingness to give their time, creativity and personal capacity so generously has been a critical factor of success for this project. We are also particular grateful also for the outstanding support and valuable input by Ambassador Peter Thomson, United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean. Furthermore we would like to acknowledge with much appreciation the crucial role of the project team at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and TMG – Think Tank for Sustainability (TMG): Klaudija Cremers, Kanako Hasegawa, Nora Hirsch, Kim Schmidt, Thando Tilmann, and Nicole Wienrich, as well as to other colleagues at IASS, IDDRI and TMG who contributed to the success of this project, including Brigitte Béjean, Corinna Bobzien, Ben Boteler, Sabine Christiansen, Carole Durussel, Jana Fasheh, Rainer Franke, Stefanie Hansen, Stefanie Karuppan, Patrizia Nanz, Nina Poccioni, Bianca Schröder, Isabel Seeger, Pradeep Singh, Matthias Tang, Torsten Thiele, Sébastien Treyer, and Luise von Pogrell. We also would like thank all participants of the Marine Regions Forum 2019 conference and of the 2021 online workshop for their valuable input and contributions in the run-up, during and in the aftermath of the events. Special thanks should also be given to the conference co-hosts from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, the 5 TEXTE Marine Regions Forum – An international stakeholder forum to strengthen regional ocean governance German Environment Agency, the European Commission, and the co-organisers Patricia Ballester, Marisa Cabello, and Alba Olmos from GOPA Com., as well as to the session-co-hosts and conference-partners, the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Ocean and Climate Platform, the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, ARTPORT_making waves, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, CORDIO East Africa, the Ministry for the Environment of Sweden, the Ministry of the Ecological Transition of France, Kiel University, MeerWissen African-German Partners for Ocean Knowledge, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, University of Oldenburg, WWF Germany, Future Earth Coasts, and eco-union. Finally, the Marine Regions Forum would not have been possible without financial support by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety through the German Environment Agency, the European Union through the European Maritime Fisheries Fund, as well as the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FONA Research for Sustainable Development) and the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of the Land Brandenburg. 6 TEXTE Marine Regions Forum – An international stakeholder forum to strengthen regional ocean governance Abstract: Marine Regions Forum The transboundary nature of the marine environment, along with the complexity of ocean issues and constraints arising from the current governance system, requires collaborative action across sectors and territorial boundaries. Cooperation among stakeholders and coordination of policies and actions within and between marine regions are important levers to achieve ocean sustainability, yet are far from being widely implemented. Employing a transdisciplinary process, the Marine Regions Forum was setup in responses to these needs, as a new participatory space for dialogue that brings together decision-makers, scientists, civil society representatives and other actors from diverse marine regions to exchange outside of formal governance processes. Through exchange, joint learning, and showcasing of existing collaborative efforts, the Marine Regions Forum aims to enable collective responses and support the development of governance solutions that catalyse transformative change towards the sustainable use and conservation of the ocean, and ultimately the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The first larger-scale event held under this new platform was set up as an international conference and hosted in 2019 in Berlin, Germany, under the theme “Achieving a healthy ocean – Regional ocean governance beyond 2020” and was attended by 200 international ocean actors. The outcomes of this first phase show that, by complementing existing processes, facilitating multi-stakeholder exchanges across sectors, and disseminating emerging recommendations to the formal policy processes, dialogue spaces such as the Marine Regions Forum have the potential to facilitate progress in ocean governance and sustainability transformations. Kurzbeschreibung: Marine Regions Forum Der grenzüberschreitende Charakter der Meeresumwelt sowie die Komplexität der meeresbezogenen Probleme und die
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