4TH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON
OCEANS, COASTS, AND ISLANDS
Working Group on Public
Education/Outreach/Media
DEVELOPING A STRATEGY FOR PUBLIC
EDUCATION/OUTREACH/MEDIA
Global Oceans Conference
GOC 2008
Vietnam
R O Korea
Indonesia
Organized by the
Global Forum on Oceans,
Coasts, and Islands and
Hosted by the Government of
CANADA
Vietnam, Ministry of
Flemish Government,
Belgium
Agriculture and Rural
Development
with principal funding
from the Global
Environment Facility
Pre-conference version, March 30, 2008

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Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands--Strategic Oceans Planning to 2016
The Global forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands has undertaken a strategic planning effort for the period 2006-2016
to develop policy recommendations for specific next steps needed to advance the global oceans agenda aimed at
governments, UN agencies, NGOs, industry, and scientific groups. To this effect, Working Groups have been
organized around 12 major topic areas related to the global oceans commitments made at the 2002 World Summit on
Sustainable Development and to emerging issues facing the global oceans community.

The Working Groups have been organized and coordinated by the Global Forum Secretariat, under the direction of
Dr. Biliana Cicin-Sain, Co-Chair and Head of Secretariat, Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, and
involving the following staff from the Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy, University of Delaware: Miriam
Balgos, Kateryna Wowk, Caitlin Snyder, Shelby Hockenberry, and Kathleen McCole.


Working Group on Public Education/Outreach/Media

WORKING GROUP LEADERS:
Camille Mageau, Department of Fisheries and
Philippe Vallette and Manuel Cira, World
Oceans, Canada
Ocean Network, NAUSICAA, France
Franklin McDonald, UNEP Caribbean
Ram Boojh, UNESCO, India
Magnus Ngoile, Marine and Costal
Peter Neill, World Ocean Observatory
Environment Management Project, Tanzania
David Helvarg, President, Blue Frontier
Pham Van Ninh, Vietnam Academy of Science
Campaign (author, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean)
and Technology, Vietnam
Felix Dodds, Stakeholder Forum for a
Chris Tompkins, Independent Consultant, UK,
Sustainable Future, UK
formerly DEFRA
Janot-Reine Mendler de Suarez, Global
Katherine Warner, Country Group Head,
Environment Facility/IW-LEARN
Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Viet Nam, IUCN
Lauren Salm, PERSGA, and Working Group
Sue Williams, UNESCO Public Affairs
Youth Representative
Katherine Warner, Country Group Head,
Peter Neill, World Ocean Observatory
Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Viet Nam, IUCN



WORKING GROUP MEMBERS:
John Nightingale, Vancouver Aquarium
Leonard Neyman, Sweden
Sylvia Earle, D O E R Marine
Matt Gianni, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
Ernesto Julio Godelman, Center for
Development and Sustainable Fisheries,
Argentina
Vu Van Trieu and Bui Thi Thu Hien, IUCN
Vietnam

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Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands

Working Group on Public Education/Outreach/Media











Policy Brief:
Developing a Strategy for Public Education/
Outreach/Media

Lead Authors
Manuel Cira and Philippe Vallette









Draft March 30, 2008

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Table of Contents



Foreword by Biliana Cicin-Sain, Global Forum
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Policy Brief


I. INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT................................. 1


II. CURRENT SITUATION.............................................. 1

General status..............................................................
1
Priority goals and related actions......................................
4
1)
Learn and deepen awareness of environment issues
4
and problems.....................................................
2)
Reflect on our modes of living, renewing these toward
5
sustainability.....................................................
3)
Empower people to take concrete actions to resolve the 6
challenges they face.............................................

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Foreword

DEVELOPING A STRATEGY FOR
PUBLIC EDUCATION/OUTREACH/MEDIA

Leading policy experts and politicians will often conclude a speech related to sustainable
development noting that only when the public-at-large becomes aware of the issues,
changes behaviour at individual, household, and community levels, and pushes political
leaders to adopt sustainable development policies and practices, that true change will take
place. That is often as far as they go.

Not so with the World Ocean Network (WON), the world's association of aquaria, zoos,
natural history museums, science and education centers. First mobilized during the
International Year of the Ocean in 1998 and then organized formally in 2002, the World
Ocean Network has worked incessantly and effectively to inform and educate the public-
at-large on ocean issues and on appropriate individual and community behaviour to
safeguard the oceans through educational activities and mass communication media.

The World Ocean Network and the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands have
worked together since the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 in a
symbiotic relationship whereby the Global Forum has produced policy messages about
global oceans goals and their effective implementation and the WON has translated and
widely disseminated these messages to publics around the world, always emphasizing the
centrality of changes in individual behaviour as a major path to change.

All of us at the Global Forum are also delighted to be working with two well-known
communications organizations on sustainable development: the World Ocean
Observatory and the Earth Negotiations Bulletin to ensure wide dissemination of the
conference deliberations and results. World Ocean Observatory will be carrying out
interviews with conference participants leading various issue areas and will be preparing
detailed reports to be disseminated on the Internet. The Earth Negotiations Bulletin
(ENB) will be preparing a daily report and a summary report of the conference to be
disseminated to more than 45,000 international and national leaders in sustainable
development through ENB's mailing lists, including the Oceans-L, a mailing list for news
and announcements related to oceans policy issues.

The World Ocean Network and partners have put forward an ambitious set of goals for
2015: to gather together 600 active organizations able to mobilize up to 1000
participating organizations in 120 to 150 countries reaching an audience of 300 million
people a year. As well, they have called for national governments to include oceans in
education materials by 2015. Reaching such a large number of people and encouraging
governments to include oceans in their educational curricula at all levels will make a
significant difference in ensuring sustainable development of oceans and we hope that all
Global Forum partners will actively participate in this effort and mobilize, as well, to
procure the funding that will be required to achieve these goals.

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Discussion of Public Education/Outreach/Media at the Global Conference

1. Members of the Working Group on Public Education/Outreach/Media are expected to
participate in the deliberations of the other Global Forum Working Groups to gain
understanding of the major recommendations proposed by each group and also to
facilitate deliberations by each Working Group on the most appropriate strategies for
reaching the public on the particular issue.

2. The Working Group on Education/Outreach/Media is expected to work closely with
the Working Group on Capacity Development, since the capacity group has identified
needs in all forms of capacity development necessary to support ecosystem-based
integrated ocean and coastal management in the face of climate change.

The Policy Brief developed by the Capacity Group has laid out important needs for the
development of capacity in ocean and coastal management on the part of national and
sub-national authorities, universities, communities, and the public.

In future work, the Global Forum is expected to focus especially on two aspects of
capacity development and public outreach: 1) reaching current ocean leaders around the
world; and 2) working with universities, training institutes, and national leaders to mold
the next generation of ocean leaders. The Public Education/Outreach/Media group could
especially focus on the complementary needs of: reaching the media, local communities,
and the public-at-large on the important ocean issues. The World Ocean Network's
proposal to organize the World Ocean International Academy in 2009, aimed at bringing
together the media, leaders of ocean aquaria and museums, and global oceans experts is a
good step in this direction.

3. The Working Group on Education/Outreach/Media should develop very specific next
steps that will be required to implement the goal of having all national governments
incorporate materials on ocean issues in their educational curricula at all levels.

The Global Forum Secretariat acknowledges, with sincere thanks, the pivotal role played
by Philippe Vallette and Manuel Cira of the World Ocean Network and of Peter Neill of
the World Ocean Observatory in the public outreach work of the Global Forum. Sincere
thanks are due to Jens Ambsdorf of the Lighthouse Foundation for the Foundation's
financial support of the public outreach work of the Global Forum.








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Global
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Policy Brief:
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I. INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
urgent actions at all levels to [...]Recommend

to the United Nations General Assembly that it
Overview
consider adopting a decade of education for
At the Earth Summit in 1992, Agenda 21 stressed
sustainable development, starting in 2005.
that education is crucial for the promotion of

sustainable development and for the improvement
The Decade of Education for Sustainable
of the ability of populations to solve environment
Development (DESD) was officially adopted by
and development problems. Chapter 36 calls
the 57th UN General Assembly in December 2002
for: "Reorienting education towards sustainable
for the period 2005-2014 with UNESCO designated
development; Increasing public awareness;
as the leading UN agency. Following the lines of
Promoting training."
its initial promoters, the Decade of Education for

Sustainable Development is designed to:
The Earth Summit also led to designating 1998 as

the first International Year of the Ocean.
1) Learn about and deepen awareness of

environment issues and problems
IOC/UNESCO was the leading UN agency for the
2) Reflect on our modes of living, shifting
organisation of the International Year of the
these toward sustainability
Ocean. In 1999, the IOC General Assembly
3) Empower people to take concrete actions to
"agreed that, to a large degree, the first objective of
resolve the environmental challenges they
the International Year of the Ocean -increasing
face
awareness - was achieved successfully and asked

that the relationships established with mass media
10 years after the International Year of the Ocean, it
and non-governmental organisations be sustained,
is time that all ocean related stakeholders fully
[it] emphasized that the IOC should promote
endorse these objectives, supporting agencies and
initiatives in the field of education by establishing
relevant actors to foster ocean awareness and
partnerships with [...] other organizations with
promote sustainable use of the ocean worldwide.
expertise in this area [considering] the importance

of both environmental education and public
II. CURRENT SITUATION
awareness of marine affairs [and] requested [its

Chairman and Executive Secretariat], to explore
General status
ways of persuading the United Nations to declare
Since the 1998 International Year of the Ocean, on
an International Ocean Day [...]."
the initial request of IOC/UNESCO, a group of

aquariums, zoos, natural history museums, and
The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable
educational centres started a new initiative to bring
Development in Johannesburg broadened the
together organisations in a position to raise public
conception of sustainable development and
awareness on ocean matters worldwide and to
confirmed the education objectives of the
promote sustainable use of the ocean to the public
Millennium Development Goals and the Dakar
at-large through education and all available mass
Framework of action toward education for all.
communication media.
Regarding public information and education, the

WSSD Plan of Implementation recommends,
"Caring for the Blue Planet, you can make a
among other items, to:
difference. Think of the significant difference 6

billion of us can make" is the slogan that was
121. Integrate sustainable development into
defined as a common message to inspire behaviour
education systems at all levels of education in
change (1st International Meeting of aquariums,
order to promote education as a key agent for
zoos, natural history museums, science centres,
change.
etc."New behaviour toward the ocean: an objective
123. Provide all community members with a
for the future" 1999)
wide range of formal and non-formal

continuing educational opportunities [...]
This movement gained momentum at the 5th
124. Support the use of education to promote
International Aquarium Congress held in Monaco
sustainable development, including through
in 2000. Other important meetings and a European-

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led initiative through the OCEANICS project, with
toward the general public was further continued
funding from the European Union DG Research
through professional meetings, such as the 6th
have also contributed greatly to this cause.
International Aquarium Congress held in 2004 in

Monterey, California, and international
Since 2002 and the WSSD, outreach activities
conferences, such as Learning to Change our World
through the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and
organised by the Swedish government as part of the
Islands have been implemented to generate public
DESD planning process, and the first official DESD
mobilisation in support of international ocean
event "Education for a Sustainable Future"
governance and focus attention at major ocean
Conference in Ahmadabad, India.
related international decisions on implementation.


From 2005 on, regional meetings on ocean
A set of common goals and actions was defined in
information and education have been organised, the
2002 at the 2nd International Meeting "Acting
first of which were held in India and Europe.
together for the Future of the Blue Planet."


Regional coordination branches were also
Diverse organisations and networks worldwide,
established to implement regional action plans
such as The Ocean Project and the European Union
along the lines of the action plan defined in 2002.
of Aquarium Curators, endorsed this action plan

which spurred the media to either promote or take
This effort was acknowledged as a UNEP/GPA
part in some of these actions.
partnership initiative at the 2nd Intergovernmental

Review of the Global Programme of Action for the
Another landmark event in 2002 was the creation of
Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-
the World Ocean Network (WON), which was
Based Activities in 2006, Beijing, China.
established as an international alliance of

organisations cooperating to foster sustainable use
Strategic goals and a related list of actions (see
of the ocean through the promotion of stewardship
figure below), some of which have been
to the "World Ocean." The World Ocean Network
implemented since 2002, were presented to
has had a coordinating secretariat and a common
stakeholders at the 3rd Global Conference on
logo since 2003, and was formalized as an
Oceans, Coasts and Islands in early 2006. They
international association three years later.
were further enriched during the following 3rd
In 2003, active participation in the 2nd Global
International Meeting "Acting together for the
Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands enabled
Future of the Blue Planet. The list of actions
professionals from the education and
includes some activities that are specific to the
communication fields to share their objectives and
education and museum field and others that are of
efforts with a broader array of ocean stakeholders.
interest to all ocean actors: all of these activities,

however, aim at mobilising the public at-large.
The effort to expand the network of organisations
actively promoting sustainable use of the ocean



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WORLD OCEAN NETWORK Long term mission : to contribute to our children's future on the Blue Planet by mobilising the general public



General objectives of Global
General objectives of World
Operational objectives of
Activities Expected impact
Indicators
Forum on Oceans, Coasts &
Ocean Network
World Ocean Network
Islands
Year
2005-2006 2010 2015
To work with governments
To launch lobbying campaigns
and other international orga-
and to run projects to restore the
Field
Hil tops to Oceans (H2O)

Actions
Eating fish sustainably
nizations in order to imple-
ocean's potential (OO5)
ment international agree-
ments on oceans at national
To contribute to the restoration
Common 400 2000 5000
N° of modules
& regional levels (GFO1)
and preservation of the planet's
To facilitate the circulation of
Display
10 40 150
N° of countries
information about research pro-
ecosystems so that we may
grammesand to exchange expe-
benefit in a sustainable way
rience of sustainable use of
from the ocean's resources
Commu-
Scientific committee set up

marine resources (OO2)
(GO1)
To work as a catalyst to mo-
nication
Newslet er and website
bilize knowledge, resources
To encourage and facilitate al
kinds of exchanges between
and organizational action to
organisations whose aim is to
advance the global oceans
Interna-

Cf. Networking
ensure the preservation and
agenda (GFO2)
tional
January 2006 2008 2011 2014
sustainable use of the ocean
Meetings
(OO4)
Pass-
500.000 à 1 M 20 M 40 M N° of distributed
ports
passports
To promote ways of life which
are better to preserve the pla-
To propose cultural, educational,
To raise the international profile
and scientific activities, or re-
net's equilibrium, thanks to
World
25 50 150 N° of participa-
of oceans, coasts and islands in
creational and sporting activities,
information and education
Ocean

ting countries
all relevant global, regional and
based on the themes of water,
about sustainable development
Day
3 M 60 M 120 M N° of af ected
subregional fora and mobilize
the ocean and sustainable deve-
public
resources to address these is-
issues (GO2)
lopment (OO3)
sues (OGF3).
Educa-


tion for
A GF package of public information materials
Sustai-
nable
To encourage everyone to act
Dev.
To mobilize public awareness on
for the well-being of humanity
To facilitate the free flow of infor-
Networ-
150 300 1000
Total n° of mem-
oceans, coasts and islands and
and to adopt new patterns of
mation and communication tools
king
100 200 600 bers
promote information sharing and
behaviour, in harmony with our
about the state of the Ocean and
the sustainable use of resources
50 80 150 N° of active mem-
dissemination (GFO4).
Blue Planet (GO3)
bers
(OO1)
N° of represented
countries

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Priority goals and related actions
publics to the importance of ocean issues. The
Following the lines of its initial promoters, the
display provides information on various subjects
Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
and suggests taking action by adopting new
is designed to:
behaviours.


1)
Learn and deepen awareness of
Objectives and Steps
environment issues and problems
An information display in the form of a
2)
Reflect on our modes of living, renewing
lighthouse was first designed in 2004 and further
these toward sustainability
tested in several countries. Existing prototypes
3)
Empower people to take concrete actions to
now have to be adapted and disseminated by
resolve the challenges they face
partners in public facilities, such as airports,

port areas, shopping centres, etc.
1) Learn and deepen awareness of environment

issues and problems
The WON objective for 2015 is to install
a. Action Summary: Promoting the concept of the
thousands around the world.
"World Ocean" demonstrates that one ocean

exists as the life support system on Earth and
c. Action Summary: Including ocean matters in
that everyone needs to care for it. By mobilising
education curricula is of utmost importance to
thousands of professionals, the objective is to
reach the future "users of the sea."
reach millions of people throughout the world

with this message.
Objectives and Steps

The first step is to informally mobilise education
Objectives and Steps
professionals to systematically include ocean
In order to provide education and museum
examples in various studies ­ geography and
professionals as well as ocean enthusiasts and
other sciences, as well as economics or fine arts
professionals from the maritime world with the
and literature. This can be done by providing
appropriate information to reach their
information and tools from the Ocean
audience, an Ocean Info Pack has been
Information Pack (see above) and by offering
developed use within the Global Forum
special programmes through all informal
program of action by Nausicaa-Centre National
education organisations and facilities, such as
de la Mer and the World Ocean Network. The
environment education bodies, aquariums,
Ocean Info Pack includes major facts and
museums, etc. In parallel, support from the
figures about the World Ocean and suggestions
DESD secretariat will be sought, as well as
of activities and tools to reach the public.
commitment of all concerned international

organisations.
In order to rally hundreds of science mediators,

nature specialists, and media and demonstrate
The WON objective for 2010 is to ensure official
the importance of communicating ocean matters
endorsement from the DESD secretariat and to
to the public, using the WON tools in the
gather all concerned international organisations
context of the GF effort, many meetings and
in a joint effort to push national governments to
workshops have been organised by WON
include ocean matters in education curricula by
participants and partners at local, regional,
2015.
and national level during the past few years,
d. Action Summary: One of the first actions any
bringing the number of WON participating
stakeholder can take to promote sustainable use
organisations and networks from less than 50 in
of the ocean is to celebrate World Ocean Day
1999 to over 300 today, with the ability of
on June 8 annually. Further promotion of World
mobilising hundreds more for specific events.
Ocean Day will facilitate celebration of this day
Further presentations and workshops will be
in more countries and help obtain official
convened in 2008-2009 and the World Ocean
designation of the World Ocean Day as an
International Academy will organise the first
official UN International Day.
session for educators as well as media in 2009.

The WON objective for 2015 is to gather 600
Objectives and Steps
active organisations, able to mobilise up to
The celebration of the World Ocean Day has
1000 participating organisations in 120 to 150
been strongly promoted by the World Ocean
countries, reaching an audience of 300 million
Network jointly with other partners, such as The
per year.
Ocean Project. From less than 10 countries

involved in 2002, there are now organisations
b. Action Summary: A joint information display
promoting activities in more than 50 countries.
will be exhibited in public places to alert new
The next step is to rally more participants,

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especially among new stakeholders, so that
more respect for planetary and oceanic resources
state agencies, research institutes, corporate
and supporting related petitions.
businesses, etc. also celebrate or support World

Ocean Day. This push will allow raising the
Objectives and Steps
profile of World Ocean Day in support of the
To encourage individual actions:
official designation of World Ocean Day as an
·
In 2003, a series of actions to avoid marine
International Day. Expected audience of the
pollution was proposed to the public. A list
World Ocean Day in 2015 is 140 million
of "Ten little things to make a difference
people, thanks to activities organised in 150
for our ocean planet" was adapted,
countries.
expanded, and distributed at the

UNEP/GPA IGR2 Meeting in 2006.
2) Reflect on our modes of living, renewing these
·
From 2003 to 2007, regional workshops
toward sustainability
were organised to work with marine
e. Action Summary: Since 2004, the Citizenship
educators, aquariums and museums,
of the "World Ocean" has been symbolised by
media, and other stakeholders on fostering
the Passport of the Citizen of the Ocean, the
sustainable seafood consumption with the
emblem of a community of citizens who care
aim of raising awareness on the fragile
for the ocean, with each citizen having their
state of the ocean ecosystems and inspiring
own responsibilities and rights. In becoming a
consumer responsibility. A new initiative
Citizen of the Ocean, the passport holder
will be launched in Europe in 2009 to
demonstrates individual determination to act for
promote positive consumer attitudes by
the benefit of the marine environment. The
learning to choose the right fish - the right
individual agrees to reflect on their way of life,
species at the right season and the right
to adopt a new behaviour toward the ocean, and
place.
to carry out a number of actions that help
·
Since 2007, WON has also partnered with
preserve and protect the ocean or simply to
IGLO, the ASTC Initiative on Global
spread knowledge about its role and importance
Warming, to better educate citizens about
to our planet and humanity.
the impact of human actions on climate

and about environmental and energy
Objectives and Steps
related choices they will need to make now
500, 000 copies of the Passport of the Citizen of
and in the future.
the Ocean have been printed in two versions
·
Another campaign theme is planned to
adapted to adults (in 8 languages) and children
promote the designation of Marine
(in 4 languages) ­ including English, French,
Protected Areas to the public.
Portuguese and Spanish. Ocean educators and

professionals worldwide make use of it in
To encourage community actions:
diverse educational programmes adapted
·
After the Prestige shipwreck in 2002, a
locally to promote the Citizenship of the Ocean.
protest petition against the risk of
Translations and prototypes are already
environmental damage caused by oil
available in 10 additional languages, among
pollution gathered 69,598 signatures.
which Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, and Tamil are
(Following the Prestige disaster, the
included with the hope of being printed and
European Union has banned single-hull oil
distributed in the near future. Apart from
tankers from its ports and the International
expanding the distribution, an effort has been
Maritime Organisation adopted measures
started to help the Citizens of the Ocean share
to phase-out single-hull tankers).
their experiences and take further actions on
·
The Polynesian government answered the
important matters; the most active Citizens of
petition against shark finning in French
the Ocean will be acknowledged as
Polynesia, which obtained about 40,000
Ambassadors of the Ocean.
signatures. As a result, sharks are now

under protection in French Polynesia.
The WON objective is to mobilise millions of
·
Marches for the Ocean have been
Citizens of the Ocean in 120 countries by 2015.
organised in various countries, from Kenya

and Mauritania to US and France.
f. Action Summary: To encourage and empower

individuals and local, regional, and international
To broaden the impact of these campaigns,
information initiatives have been started,
actions have been taken to involve prominent
promoting concrete sustainable actions, at the
public figures and introduce new high-profile
individual and community levels, such adopting
initiatives, such as: holding Sustainable Seafood
behaviour and consumption habits that show

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celebrations and displays; composing a March
other discussions have started about maritime
for the Ocean; composing an anthem for the
transport and safety issues that link with our way
Ocean; launching a "Nobel Prize" for the
of life and consumption.
Ocean. A solidarity fund will support the

actions of World Ocean Network participants
The WON objective for 2015 is the organisation
and partners.
of stakeholder debates and public debates by all

WON participants around the world and in
3) Empower people to take concrete actions to
partnership with all Global Forum working
resolve the challenges they face
group themes.
g. Action Summary: Public debates equip

individuals with the understanding, skills, and
h. Action Summary: Youth Parliaments for the
knowledge that enable them to perform this role
Ocean are aimed at enhancing the involvement
effectively. They are an opportunity to involve
of young people in ocean stewardship and
the general public in decision making processes.
governance. As future consumers, decision
Bringing together scientists with concerned
makers, managers, and users of marine resources,
stakeholders and the public, they bridge the gap
young people can play a significant role in
between knowledge and everyday life, and they
securing their future and that of generations to
facilitate discussion about both existing
come. Their involvement is critical to
problems and ways of life.
determining whether existing efforts in ocean

management will be continued over time.
Objectives and Steps

Ocean Debates started in 2002, for instance, at
Objectives and Steps
the World Underwater Film Festival, as well as
The first meetings of the Youth Parliament for the
in many local celebrations for World Ocean
Ocean were held in 2007 in Malta at PIM XXXII
Day. Among other themes, "From Hilltops to
at the international level and in Brussels at the
Oceans" debates organised in 2003 allowed for
regional European level.
the discussion of the impact of our everyday life

on the oceans through pollution. The public
The WON objective is to organise: regular
debates also include policy issues, such as the
regional youth forums; youth consultations in
discussion of the European Integrated Maritime
conjunction with international ocean
policy in the framework of the Blue Planet
conferences; and to make the International Youth
Forum in Brussels in 2007. In 2007-2008,
Parliament for the Ocean a yearly event.





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Steering Committee, Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands*

Co-Chairs
Management Project (MACEMP),
Satya Nandan, Secretary-General,
Charles Ehler, Consultant to UNESCO
Biliana Cicin-Sain, Director, Gerard J.
Ministry of Natural Resources and
International Seabed Authority,
Julius Francis, Executive Secretary,
Mangone Center for Marine Policy,
Tourism
Jamaica
Western Indian Ocean Marine Science
University of Delaware (also Head of
Rolph Payet, Advisor to the President,
Tiago Pitta e Cunha, Member, Cabinet
Association, Tanzania
Secretariat, Global Forum)
Seychelles
of Fisheries and Maritime
Matthew Gianni, Political Advisor,
Patricio A. Bernal, Executive-
Lori Ridgeway, Director-General,
Commissioner, European Commission
Deep Sea Conservation Coalition,
Secretary, Intergovernmental
International Coordination and Policy
Mary Power, Director, Resource
Netherlands
Oceanographic Commission,
Analysis, Department of Fisheries and
Mobilization Office, World
Vladimir Golitsyn, Professor of
UNESCO, Paris, France
Oceans, Canada, and Camille Mageau,
Meteorological Association
International Law, Moscow State
Veerle Vandeweerd, Director,
Director, Marine Ecosystems
Cristelle Pratt, Director, South Pacific
University of International Relations
Environment and Energy Group,
Conservation Branch, Department of
Applied Geoscience Commission
Lynne Hale, Director, Marine
United Nations Development
Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
(SOPAC), Fiji
Strategy, The Nature Conservancy
Programme (UNDP)
Mario Ruivo, Intersectoral
Diane Quarless, Chief, Small Island
Art Hanson, former Ministerial Ocean
Governmental
Oceanographic Commission, Ministry
Developing States Unit, UNDESA
of Science, Technology, and Higher
Ambassador, Department of Fisheries
David Balton, Deputy Assistant
Education, Portugal
John Richardson, Head, Maritime
and Oceans, Canada, member of the
Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries,
Policy Task Force, European
Canadian Foundation for Innovation
Indroyono Soesilo, Chairman, Agency
Bureau of Oceans, U.S. Department of
Commission
(CFI)
for Marine and Fisheries Research,
State
Department of Marine Affairs and
Anne Rogers, United Nations
Gregor Hodgson, Director, Reef
Phil Burgess, Director, Cetacean
Fisheries, Indonesia
Department of Economic and Social
Check
Policy and Recovery, Department of
Affairs (UNDESA)
Ambassador Enele S. Sopoaga,
Paul Holthus, Independent Consultant
the Environment and Water
Tuvalu, Former Vice-Chair, Alliance
Eduard Sarukhanian, Director, World-
Gunnar Kullenberg, Independent
Resources, Australia
of Small Island Developing States
Weather-Watch-Applications, World
Consultant and former Director,
Nguyen Chu Hoi, Director, Institute of
(AOSIS)
Meteorological Organization (WMO),
Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Fisheries Economics and Planning,
Switzerland
Chris Tompkins, Independent
Commission (IOC)
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Consultant
Alan Simcock, Independent
Dan Laffoley, World Commission on
Development, Vietnam
Consultant
Intergovernmental
Protected Areas-Marine, IUCN
Aldo Cosentino, Director-General,
Dann Sklarew, Director and Chief
Carl Lundin, Head, IUCN Marine
Directorate for Nature Protection, Sea
Salvatore Arico, Programme
Technical Advisor, GEF, IW:LEARN
Programme
Protection, Ministry for Environment
Specialist, Ecological Sciences,
Asterio Takesy, Director, Secretariat
and Protection of the Territory, Italy
UNESCO
Dawn Martin, President, Sea Web,
for the Pacific Regional Environment
USA
Margaret Davidson, Director, Coastal
Julian Barbiere and Stefano Belfiore,
Programme
Services Center, National Oceanic and
Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Gerald Miles, The Nature
Khulood Tubaishat, Advisor, The
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commission, France
Conservancy, Pacific Region,
Regional Organization for the
USA
Chua Thia-Eng, Partnership in
Brisbane, Australia
Conservation of the Environment of
Antonio Diaz de Leon, Director-
Environmental Management for the
the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
Iouri Oliounine, Executive Director,
General, Environmental, Regional
Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA),
(PERSGA)
International Ocean Institute, Malta
Integration and Sectoral Policy,
IMO/UNDP/GEF, Philippines
Chika Ukwe, Industrial Development
Pietro Parravano, President, Institute
Environment and Natural Resources
Anjan Datta, Global Programme for
Officer (International Waters), United
for Fisheries Resources, World
Ministry (SEMARNAT), Mexico
the Protection of the Marine
Nations Industrial Development
Fisheries Forum
Ambassador Angus Friday, Chair,
Environment from Land-Based
Organization (UNIDO)
Sian Pullen, Independent Consultant,
Alliance of Small Island States
Activities, The Hague
Marjo Vierros, Visiting Professor,
New Zealand, and former Head of
(AOSIS), Permanent Representative of
Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary,
Institute of Advanced Studies, United
European and Middle East Marine
Grenada to the United Nations
Convention on Biological Diversity
Nations University, Vancouver
Program, WWF International, UK
Gi-Jun Han, Ministry of Maritime
Al Duda, Senior Advisor, International
Eugenio Yunis, Chief, Sustainable
Victoria Radchenko, Director,
Affairs and Fisheries, Republic of
Waters, Global Environment Facility
Development of Tourism World
International Ocean Institute, Ukraine
Korea
(GEF)
Tourism Organization
Tony Ribbink, Director, Sustainable
Elie Jarmache, Chargé de Mission,
Serge Garcia, Independent Consultant,
A.H. Zakri, Director, Institute of
Seas Trust
Secrétariat Général de la Mer, France
and Former Director, Marine Fisheries
Advanced Studies, United Nations
Evelia Rivera-Arriaga, Centro de
Magnus Johannesson, Secretary-
Resources Division, Food and
University, Yokohama
Ecologia, Pesquerias y Oceanographia
General, Ministry for the
Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Nongovernmental
del Golfo de Mexico (EPOMEX),
Environment, Iceland
Marea E. Hatziolos, Senior Coastal
Mexico
Ambassador Jagdish Koonjul,
and Marine Specialist, Environment
Milton Asmus, International
Nirmal Jivan Shah, Chief Executive,
Mauritius, former Chair, Alliance of
Department, The World Bank
Representative, Brazilian Agency for
Nature Seychelles
Small Island States (AOSIS)
Coastal Management
Indumathie Hewawasam, Independent
Alan Simcock, former Executive
Gerhard Kuska, Associate Director
Consultant
Awni Behnam, President, International
Director, OSPAR, and former co-
and Director of Ocean and Coastal
Ocean Institute, Malta
Andrew Hudson, Principal Technical
chair, UN Informal Consultative
Policy, White House Council on
Advisor, International Waters,
Charles A. Buchanan, Administrator
Process on Ocean Affairs and Law of
Environmental Quality, USA
UNDP/GEF
Luso-American Development
the Sea
Tom Laughlin, Deputy Director,
Foundation, Portugal
David Johnson, Executive Secretary,
Nancy Targett, Dean, University of
International Affairs Office, National
OSPAR Convention, London
Torkil J. Clausen, Managing Director,
Delaware College of Marine and Earth
Oceanic and Atmospheric
DHI Water Policy and Senior Adviser,
Studies
Administration (NOAA), USA
Vladimir Mamaev, GEF Regional
Global Water Partnership
Technical Advisor, UNDP, Europe
Kristian Teleki, International Coral
Haiqing Li, Deputy Director-General,
and the CIS, Slovak Republic
Simon Cripps, Director, Global
Reef Action Network, Switzerland
State Oceanic Administration (SOA),
Marine Programme, World Wide Fund
Hiroshi Terashima, Executive
China
Franklin McDonald, Adviser, UNEP
For Nature (WWF) International
Caribbean Environment Programme
Director, Institute for Ocean Policy,
John Low, Adviser to the Minister of
(UNEP/CEP), and former Director,
Richard Delaney, Executive Director,
Ocean Policy Research Foundation,
Marine Resources for the Cook Islands
National Environmental Policy
Center for Coastal Studies,
Japan
Rejoice Mabudafhasi, Deputy Minister
Agency, Jamaica
Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA
Grant Trebble, African Marine and
of Environmental Affairs and
Vaclav Mikulka, Director, UN
Annick de Marffy, former Director of
Coastal Resource Over-exploitation
Tourism, South Africa
Division for Ocean Affairs and the
Division of Ocean Affairs and Law of
Prevention Strategy (AMCROPS),
Jan Mees, Director, Flanders Marine
Law of the Sea
the Sea (UNDOALOS), United
South Africa
Institute, Belgium
Nations International Consultant
Ali Mohamed, Coordinator, Coastal
Philippe Vallette and Manuel Cira,
Guillermo Garcia Montero, President,
and Marine Secretariat, New
Sylvia Earle, Chair, Deep Ocean
NAUSICAA, France, and the World
National Aquarium, Havana, Cuba
Partnership for Africa's Development
Exploration and Research (DOER),
Ocean Network
and Explorer-in-Residence, National
Magnus Ngoile, Team Leader, Marine
(NEPAD), Kenya
Geographic Society
David VanderZwaag, IUCN Specialist
and Coastal Environmental
Group on Ocean Law and Governance
* Please note: Members of the Steering Committee participate in their individual capacities.

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