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Support for 10-year Strategic Action Programme for the Caribbean and North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystems (the CLME+ SAP). #CLMEplus
by CLME+ Project and Strategic Action Programme Partnership (Partnership)
This commitment is supportive of the 10-year Strategic Action Programme for the Caribbean and North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystems (the CLME+ SAP) and the associated long-term vision of a healthy marine environment that provides benefits and livelihoods for the well-being of the people of this region. #CLMEplus
Progress reports
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
Type of commitment
  • Large Marine Ecosystem approach
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in UNCLOS, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of The Future We Want
Type of commitment
  • Strengthening ocean governance, for example through the development of a national ocean policy or regional ocean policy
11/2019
Input to the State of Marine Environment and Economies Report
11/2019
Monitoring and Evaluation of Governance
11/2019
Enhancement of National Intersectoral Committees
11/2019
Lessons learned and best practices
In-kind contribution
Academic and research capability in EBM and governance of oceans
Basic information
Time-frame: 11/2015 - 11/2019
Partners
CLME+ Project (Partnership), Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM)(IGO), Caribbean Community (CARICOM)(IGO), Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)(IGO), Organization of Fishing and Aquaculture in Central America (OSPESCA)(IGO), Comisin Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo, (CCAD)(IGO), UN Environment Caribbean Environment Programme (UNEP-CEP)(UN), Western Central Atlantic Fisheries Commission (WECAFC)(UN), University of the West Indies Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (UWI-CERMES)(Academic) and several other organisations
Ocean Basins
  • North Atlantic
Beneficiary countries
Other beneficaries
Contact information
Robin Mahon, Professor, prof.mahon@gmail.com, 246-231-6782
Bridgetown, Barbados
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