Episode 12 - Ocean Cooperation: BBNJ & other IFBs

When the new BBNJ Agreement was adopted, it entered a crowded space of already existing Instruments, Frameworks and Bodies (IFBs) in ocean governance.

What do other organisations think of BBNJ - and where are overlaps?
Which lessons can be learned from cooperation in a shared ocean?
How would ideal cooperation look like?

In this episode we talk to 4 Secretariats of those IFBs:

One regional fisheries management organisation (North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission, NEAFC); one regional conservation organisation (OSPAR); the International Seabed Authority (ISA); and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Guests:

Darius Campbell, the Executive Secretary of the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)

Dominic Pattinson, the former Executive Secretary of the OSPAR Commission

Bruno Pozzi, the Deputy Secretary General of the International Seabed Authority (ISA)

Joe Appiott, the coordinator for marine, coastal and island biodiversity of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Hosts: ⁠Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki⁠ & Bianca Haas & ⁠Jennifer Macey⁠

Sound design and editing: ⁠⁠Emily Perkins⁠⁠

Communication: ⁠Sunnefa Yeatman⁠

For comments & feedback please contact: ⁠inatvw@uow.edu.au⁠

Find out more:

ANCORS Ocean Equity page ⁠https://oceanequityresearch.org/⁠

ANCORS at the University of Wollongong https://www.uow.edu.au/ancors/⁠

Official documents in preparation for the Entry into Force of the BBNJ Agreement on the United Nations Website

BBNJ: ⁠https://www.un.org/bbnjagreement/en⁠

North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission: ⁠https://www.neafc.org/⁠

OSPAR: ⁠https://www.ospar.org/⁠

International Seabed Authority (ISA): ⁠https://isa.org.jm/⁠

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD): ⁠https://www.cbd.int/⁠

Further Materials & Sources

OSPAR Decision 2021/01 on the establishment of the North Atlantic Current and Evlanov Sea basin Marine Protected Area ⁠https://www.ospar.org/documents?v=46308⁠

Collective arrangement between competent international organisations on cooperation and coordination regarding selected areas in areas beyond national jurisdiction in the North‐East Atlantic: ⁠https://www.ospar.org/documents?v=33030⁠