SUSTAINABLE OCEAN SUMMIT 2015
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FISH - Each year stocks decline, while the world population increases. It's not rocket science, it's basic economics - we need to boost the health of our oceans, starve, or face another world war - as warring factions fight for the fishing rights of third world and other states less able to defend themselves.
SUSTAINABLE OCEAN SUMMIT 2015 9 - 11 NOVEMBER 2015 SINGAPORE
The World Ocean Council (WOC) is proud to announce that the 3rd Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS) will be held on 9-11 November, 2015 in Singapore.
The SOS is the only international, multi-sectoral, business event dedicated to “Corporate Ocean Responsibility”. This first SOS to be held in Asia, the 2015 event is being developed in collaboration with stakeholders in Singapore, Hong Kong and responsible business leadership companies from around the world.
SOS 2015 is uniquely designed to bring together leadership companies from the diverse Ocean Business Community: shipping, oil and gas, seabed mining, fisheries, aquaculture, tourism, offshore renewable energy, ports, dredging, mining, submarine cables, marine science, engineering and technology, the maritime legal, financial and insurance communities, and others - as well as ocean stakeholders from the government, inter-governmental, academic and environment communities.
The SOS will address critical issues for cross-sectoral ocean industry leadership and collaboration, including: ocean policy and governance; the Arctic; marine biodiversity; ocean planning; ocean industry data collection; biofouling and invasive species; marine sound; marine debris and port reception facilities; marine mammal interactions; the role of finance, insurance and legal sectors in responsible ocean use.
Other cross-cutting topics critical to industry leadership on ocean sustainability, stewardship and science are being developed with input from the business community. Opportunities for speakers to address the themes above will become available when the draft program is announced.
Sponsorship opportunities are available for the 2015 Sustainable Ocean Summit. Sponsorship commitments made prior to 28 February 2015, will benefit from a 20% discount as an early supporter.
JOSE
MARIA FIGUERES - Is a co-chair of the Global
Ocean Commission. José reached world stage recognition as President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. As such, he was the youngest President of a Central American country in modern times. During his presidency he showed his unique leadership skills through implementing invaluable changes that opened opportunities for further development
revolutionizing his country’s economy and transforming Costa Rica into the environmentally conscientious country it is today.
PROGRAM - SUSTAINABLE OCEAN SUMMIT 2015 (DRAFT, SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
SOS THEME: "SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT and GROWING the BLUE ECONOMY - THE NEXT 50 YEARS"
SPEAKER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
The WOC is accepting abstracts for proposed presentations to address the SOS 2015 Program
Topics at a cost of $600 USD per speaker.
SOS VENUE - MARINA MANDARIN HOTEL
The Marina Mandarin Singapore is a five-star luxury hotel located on Raffles Boulevard in the Marina Centre complex, in the Downtown Core of Singapore. It is located in the heart of the city and has views of the Marina Bay and the financial district. The Marina Square Shopping Mall, and is adjacent, and the Sands Expo & Convention Center and the Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre are nearby. The hotel is opposite Singapore's performing arts center, The Esplanade. It is also within walking distance to attractions such as Gardens by the Bay and the Singapore Flyer, and is situated on the 'trackside' of the annual Singapore Grand Prix Formula One race.
Designed by John Portman, the 26-year-old hotel has one of the largest open atriums in Southeast Asia, which rises through 21 levels and is permeated by natural light. Each of the 575 rooms is accessed from the balconies overlooking the atrium, and has views of the Singapore harbour and the city skyline.
SOS 2015 HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
For the nights of 8-November to 11-November (Sunday-Wednesday nights), registrants to SOS 2015 are offered a Deluxe Room rate of S$300 (or approximately $225 USD) that includes breakfast for one and complementary internet access.
If your country where you hold a passport that requires a formal letter of invitation, you will be able to request this letter when you Register for the SOS 2015.
ABOUT SINGAPORE
The Republic of Singapore, is a modern city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It lies off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and is 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator. The country's territory consists of the diamond-shaped main island, commonly referred to as Singapore Island in English and Pulau Ujong in Malay, and more than 60 significantly smaller islets. Singapore is separated from Peninsular Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to the north, and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to the south. The country is highly urbanised, and little of the original vegetation remains. The country's territory has consistently expanded through land reclamation.
SINGAPORE - has a tropical rainforest climate with no distinctive seasons, uniform temperature and pressure, high humidity, and abundant rainfall. Temperatures usually range from 22 to 35 °C (72 to 95 °F).
The islands were settled in the second century AD and subsequently belonged to a series of local empires. Modern Singapore was founded in 1819 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles as a trading post of the East India Company with permission from the Johor Sultanate. The British obtained sovereignty over the island in 1824, and Singapore became one of the British Straits Settlements in 1826. Occupied by the
Japanese during
World War II, Singapore became independent from the United Kingdom in 1963 and united with other former British territories to form
Malaysia, from which it was expelled two years later through a unanimous act of parliament. Singapore has since developed rapidly, earning recognition as one of the Four Asian
Tigers.
HOTEL CONTACTS
5 Raffles Avenue, Marina Square Web:
http://www.mandarinoriental.com/singapore/
WORLD
OCEAN COUNCIL Email:
SOS2015@OceanCouncil.org Paul
Holthus, Founding President/CEO
Leslie-Ann
McGee, Programs Director
WOC-RELATED EVENTS - "Sea Asia 2015" Singapore, 20-22 April 2015
"World Ocean Summit 2015" - Cascais, Portugal, 3-5 June, 2015
TREVOR MANUEL - Is a co-chair of the Global Ocean Commission. Trevor was born in South Africa on January 31, 1956. His home is Cape Town and he was educated in the same city graduating from Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He has served many great African leaders including Nelson Mandela, Kgalema Motlanthe and Thabo Mbeki as the nation’s Finance minister. This positions him as the longest serving finance minister in South Africa from 1996 to 2009. Trevor was commissioned by President Jacob Zuma to head the National Planning Commission and help develop thecountry after spending sometime managing the nation’s finance portfolio. Trevor became a public figure as the General Secretary of Cape Areas Housing Action committee; he was also a National Executive member in the United Democratic Front party where he was detained and banned between 1985 and 1990. Trevor graduated with a Civil and Structural Engineering degree but read law while in detention. Trevor was responsible for the nation’s first budget surplus announced in 2007 with an obvious prosperity in the country. He is regarded as one of South Africa’s most competent ministers with an acclaimed recognition on his contributions to the nation. Trevor was also appointed the chairperson of the International Monetary Fund Governance Reform council in 2008.
DAVID MILIBAND - Is a co-chair of the Global Ocean Commission, David is also on the International Rescue Committee, a group that shares many of the aims of the World Ocean Council and is likely to attend the SOS 2015 in Singapore. In February 2014 David was urging the creation of a seagoing police force to bring order to the "wild west" free-for-all on the high seas that is damaging the health of the world's oceans. Mr Miliband and the former Costa Rican president, José María Figueres, who together serve as co-chairs of the Global Oceans Commission, are to formally unveil their ideas for ocean reform in a report in June of 2015. But the two leaders have begun to sound out international reaction to a set of proposals for protecting oceans, from a crackdown on illegal fishing to a clean-up of the vast churn of plastic particles in the Pacific and expanding marine protection zones.
Miliband revealed that his vision of an ocean protection force would lean heavily on the deployment of new surveillance technologies to identify and track fishing vessels operating on the high seas, as well as their catch. "If you are to have an enforcement regime, it needs to be policed," Miliband said. But he cautioned: "It is not about having people in boats necessarily." Estimates of the unreported and illegal catch on the high seas range between $10bn-$24bn a year, overwhelming government efforts to track or apprehend the illegal fishing boats. The illegal fishing makes it impossible for countries to manage sustainable fisheries and hurts responsible fishing crews. "You could do everything that is necessary within the high seas but if you don't tackle climate change then you are still taking huge risk with the future of the oceans," Miliband is quoted as saying.
BLUE ECONOMY;
BLUE GROWTH
LINKS & REFERENCE
CNN news 2015 April 23 opinions lambertini ocean economy World Wildlife Fund reviving the oceans economy the case for action 2015 The Guardian environment 2014 September earth has lost-50 percent of wildlife in 40 years wwf Al Jazeera news 2015 April wwf report warns danger oceans Biodiversity connections wordpress sustainable ocean summit-2015-2-4-Nov Singapore Wikipedia Marina_Mandarin_Singapore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Mandarin_Singapore http://www.mandarinoriental.com/singapore/ http://www.oceancouncil.org/ http://www.pml.ac.uk/Media_and_events/Events/World_Ocean_Council_%28WOC%29_3rd_Sustainable_Ocean_Su http://ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=1610 http://www.economistinsights.com/sustainability-resources/event/world-ocean-summit-2015 http://www.fao.org/ http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/earth-lost-50-wildlife-in-40-years-wwf http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/wwf-report-warns-danger-oceans-150423142317932.html http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wwf-ocean-important-business-asset-24tn-economic-value-quickly-deteriorating-1497832 http://theterramarproject.org/thedailycatch/worlds-seventh-largest-economy-headed-toward-collapse-the-ocean/ http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/23/opinions/lambertini-ocean-economy/ https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/reviving-the-oceans-economy-the-case-for-action-2015
A SEAVAX DRONE - This is a raw proposal for a robot ship that is designed to vacuum up plastic waste from the ocean based on the Bluefish ZCC concept. The vessel is solar and wind powered - and shares component with other ZCC variants. The front end (right) is modified so that there is a wide scoop area, into which plastic waste is funneled as the ship moves forward. The waste is pumped into a large holding bay after treatment, then stored until it can be off-loaded. The front of the ship sports two large wind turbines that generate electricity in combination with deck mounted solar panels to power the onboard processing machinery. The system can be semi-autonomous, such that in robot mode the vessel alerts and operational HQ to any potential problems and shares information as to progress for stake holders. The entire cleanup mission can be controlled from land, with visuals and data streams. A SeaVax ship would operate using a search program called SeaNet.
ARCTIC - ATLANTIC - BALTIC - BERING - CARIBBEAN - CORAL - EAST CHINA - ENGLISH CH - GULF MEXICO GOC - INDIAN - MEDITERRANEAN - NORTH SEA - PACIFIC - PERSIAN GULF - SEA JAPAN - STH CHINA PLASTIC
OCEANS - UNCLOS
- UNEP
- WOC - WWF
FISHY - An aerial picture taken in January of 2012 is of 400 students gathering on the beach of Yoff Diamalaye in Dakar to form a giant fish to draw Senegalese presidential candidate's attention to the problems of the fisheries sector in Senegal during a rally called by global environmental group Greenpeace and local fishermen organizations for a "responsible and sustainable fishery policy." This was at the end of a campaign to collect signatures throughout the country.
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