The Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
The Technical Abstract of the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment on “The Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction”. is based upon the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment – World Ocean Assessment I – released in January 2016, and, in particular, upon the Summary of that Assessment, which was approved by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2015. It has been prepared in accordance with the programme of work for the period 2017-2020 for the second cycle of the Regular Process which was adopted by the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process in August 2016 and endorsed by the General Assembly in December 2016. This provides for, inter alia, support for other ongoing ocean-related intergovernmental processes, including the preparation of Technical Abstracts specifically tailored to meet the needs of, among other intergovernmental processes, the work under General Assembly resolution 69/292: Development of an international legally-binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. The purpose of this Technical Abstract is to provide scientific, factual background to the issues being discussed in these processes. In this regard, the Technical Abstract provides a synthesis of the information in World Ocean Assessment I and does not introduce any new material or interpretation of the information presented in World Ocean Assessment I.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Main issues
Structure of the ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction
State of marine biodiversity of areas
Benefits from marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction
General changes/pressures affecting the ocean beyond areas of national jurisdiction
Specific pressures on marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction arising from human activities
Conclusion
