Understanding the ocean microbiome

A key to produce science-based tools for ocean governance

Tuesday June 28
1:30 pm – 3pm

 

 

 

 

Event website Program (PDF)

 

OFFICIAL SIDE-EVENT
Ocean governance & marine microbiome:
a science to policy dialogue

A side event in the context of the United Nations Ocean Conference 2022 (Lisbon, 27 June – 1 July, 2022).

With the growing impacts of climate change, as the Ocean’s and the planet’s biodiversity is under threat, the scientific community is paving the way for a better understanding of the Ocean ecosystem as a whole, including the microorganisms, representing some 80% of marine life but still largely ignored in the ocean governance decisions today.

For this side event, policy experts, governments representatives and scientists will explore some key issues bridging science and current policy processes, specially on the High Seas “BBNJ” (Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction) negotiations and in the definitions of new targets and criteria for area based management tools, including marine protected areas, in the frame of the UNCDB Post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda.

This event will only take place in person.

PT Meeting Center, Lisbon – Portugal
Auditório III
Facing the Altice Arena (inside venue)

 

Organized by

• Fondation Tara Océan
• Fonds Français pour l’environnement mondial (FFEM)
• Center for Mathematical Modeling
• Ministerio del Medio Ambiente de Chile
• Gobernación Provincia de Magallanes

 

Program

1:00 PM | WELCOME BUFFET

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Facilitator – André Abreu, Tara Ocean Foundation

1:30 PM | OPENING REMARKS

by André Abreu (Tara Ocean Foundation) and Cyrille Barnerias (French Biodiversity Agency – OFB)

1:45 PM | THE OCEAN MICROBIOME: THE INVISIBLE MULTITUDE

by Romain Troublé (Tara Ocean Foundation) and Alejandro Maass (CMM/University of Chile)

2:00 PM | PANEL DISCUSSION

How the recent developments on the ocean sciences can better contribute to specific ocean policy processes ?

– BBNJ – Future MPAs for the High-seas : What is at stake ?

Florian Botto – Monaco UN permanent representation

– Toward innovative hybrid MPAs – The “Costa Rica Thermal Dome” project

Haydee Rodriguez – SARGADOM Costa Rica

– Ocean and Climate agenda under UNFCCC

Loreley Picourt – Ocean & Climate Platform

2:40 PM | THE UPCOMING KEY OCEAN PLANCTONIC AREAS (KOPAS) PROJECT IN CHILE

by André Abreu (Tara Ocean Foundation), Phénia Marras – Aït Razouk (OFB) and Alejandro Maass (CMM/University of Chile)

2:55 PM | WRAP-UP & QUESTIONS

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– This event will not be broadcasted online –

 

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Posted on May 24, 2022 in Workshops & Congresses