Transcript 08 kuemlangan fao tcp project

FAO TCP Project proposal on
addressing climate change
impact on Pacific SIDS
jurisdictional claims
Oceanic Fisheries Management
Project II – Project Design Consultation
8 March 2013
Noumea, New Caledonia
Project name:
Assessment and development of national and
regional options and strategies to address
jurisdictional implications of climate change
and related capacity building
“Jurisdictional claims project”
Design and approach
Typical FAO TCP Project –
decentralized formulation and operated
– HQ technical backstopping
Integral part of OFMP II – but can be
implemented as an autonomous
complementary project
Falls under climate change - impact on
jurisdictional claims
Focus on legal options/responses to
climate change through a strategic
approach and capacity building
Output 1.2.2 of Project
Framework
 Assessment of sea level rise/climate
change impacts on fisheries jurisdictions
conducted in coordination
 with related initiatives and related training
carried out for 14 Pacific SIDS
Background and considerations
Certainty, clarity and consistency in jurisdictional claims
= effective implementation of instruments and
management
Baselines that are based on physical features/land marks
when inundated due to sea level rise could affect 200
EEZ
No explicit reference in international law/UNCLOS on
continued validity of claims (Int’l law is silent)
Legal Boundaries of the Oceans and Airspace
Key components
 Budget: US$500,000
 Objectives:
– enhance understanding and recognition in
Pacific SIDS region of full import of physical and
jurisdictional implications of SLR
– directly lead to development and endorsement
of a Regional Strategy (policy and legal) and
approaches and options for recognition and
preservation of Pacific SIDS jurisdictional
claims
Key components
 Activities
– National consultations
– Regional consultation formulation of strategies
– Capacity building
 Outputs
Regional Strategy
national strategies
Enhanced understanding/capacities developed
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