🐟 During the 19th session of the Fisheries & Aquaculture #COFIFT , @OceanEco_UNCTAD organized a side event to present the #Trade and #Environment Review 2023 #TER2023
I was pleased to be part of such an interesting discussion and I'd like to congratulate @DavidJVivas1 for such a masterpiece!
United Nations John E. Scanlon AO ifaw CITES High Seas Alliance Shark Conservation Fund United NationsEP Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea World Wildlife Day WCS Ocean @OceanEco_UNCTAD #WWD2023 also marks the occasion of CITES 50th birthday #CITES 50 & I was honoured to be able to offer some thoughts on the evolving role of the Convention in regulating marine #wildlife , in particular #sharks , with former #CITES SG John E. Scanlon AO . sdg.iisd.org/commentary/gue… .
Legislators from 7 East African countries in Nairobi discussing and cross learning on national policy experiences against plastic pollution. Plastic substitutes also being discussed. #SMEPprogramme @oceaneco_unctad
Caribbean disaster🇯🇲🇹🇹 🇺🇳 #UN 🇺🇳 #SDGs 🌏 #ClimateAction 🌐 #ActNow Caribbean Chamber of Commerce - Europe Rise Up 4 Climate ⌛ @DavidJVivas1 We Don't Have Time Dr Gemma Harper @OceanEco_UNCTAD FAO in the Caribbean Fundación Caribe Sur Dr.Salahideen Alhaj 🔸SDGs Gender Statistics Riad Meddeb Adam Rogers Gustavo Gonzalez Emma Lewis Deodat Maharaj OPM Jamaica World Bank Caribbean Birds Caribbean Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator Thanks 🙏🏼 Caribbean disaster🇯🇲🇹🇹
The State of the Climate in the
Latin America and Caribbean
report provides details of extreme
weather and climate change
impacts in the entire region, from
the Amazon to the Andes, and
from coastal waters to snowy
peaks.
#ClimateActionNow
Looking forward to the Working Session on #Empowering waves: and #ocean of opportunities for #women on the #BlueEconomy at the WTO #PF24
@OceanEco_UNCTAD and Fisheries & Aquaculture are making this event possible.
Thank you, @DavidJVivas1 ! 🐟
🪸HAPPENING TODAY: Could sustainable #seaweed farming unlock #NaturebasedSolutions to #ClimateChange , #pollution & #BiodiversityLoss whilst boosting #gender & economic equity? 🧐bit.ly/3uBsdWn
🌐 #UNEA6 Official Side-event/via Zoom
🗓️26 Feb 2024
⏲️11:30am-12:45pm CET
The #fisheries sector, vital for 40M+ fishers' livelihoods & global food security, faces challenges: volatile fossil fuels & #climate impacts. Listen to our UN Trade and Development's #TheWeeklyTradecast to find out more.
For deeper analysis on this crucial issue🧐📘: bit.ly/4cep1kl
For small islands addressing issues around #plastics pollution is key- happy that UN Trade and Development is facilitating a discussion between #Barbados BIDC Barbados & Notpla to see how seaweed in region can be viable input for plastics substitute @OceanEco_UNCTAD
UN Trade and Development UN Trade and DevelopmentTrade @BioTradeGroup Rebeca Grynspan Indonesian Mission Geneva Colombia en Ginebra 🇨🇴🇨🇭🇺🇳 @OceanEco_UNCTAD UN Biodiversity Chantal L.Carpentier WTO Misión del Ecuador ante la OMC | WTO Mission of Brazil to the WTO 🇧🇷 CITES Launching the new report on the potential of #seaweed to advance environmental & gender dimensions of the SDGs, this panel discussed the benefits of Building a Global Seaweed Value Chain in ensuring sustainable products are the norm, not the exception.
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Simonetta Zarrilli, Chief of the Trade, Gender and Development Programme, UNCTAD highlighted the importance of #data in understanding women's participation in the blue economy 🌊 at #WTOPublicForum
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Tatiana Der Avedissian, Business Development Manager, World Ocean Initiative– Economist Group emphasized the need for women to join the fisheries sector and shared solutions to achieve this at #WTOPublicForum
Fisheries & Aquaculture Global Seaweed Coalition WTO @OceanEco_UNCTAD
Unesco recommends against Great Barrier Reef ‘in danger’ listing but Australia warned more action needed
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Dr.Salahideen Alhaj 🔸SDGs Gender Statistics
Riad Meddeb
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Caribbean Chamber of Commerce - Europe
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Psm_cuts: RT @OceanEco_UNCTAD: To meet #ParisAgreement targets:
🎯 Raise 2022's $1.3T 🌐investment to $5.5T by 2030
🎯 Boost Developing Countries' $544B to $1.7T annually
The development cost+risk of leaving developing countries behind are high. Can t…
Nichola Dyer, Senior Advisor and Secretariat Manager, Global Seaweed Coalition spoke about the multifaceted women and seaweed nexus and urged for enhancing the role of women in the blue economy🌊at the #WTOPublicForum
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Congratulation @DavidJVivas1 and @OceanEco_UNCTAD team for this important work to contribute to the effort to fish sustainably including the implementation of #StopFundingOverfishing and the @WTO #FisheriesSubsidies agreement
United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards UNCTAD Trade @OceanEco_UNCTAD UNCTAD - Trade Logistics UNIDO Geneva Geneva Impact GENeva Environment Network WTO International Gender Champions (IGC) OWITLakeGeneva UNCTAD_Gender Even while women are heavily involved in manual labour at farms usually there's a miniscule % of women with land ownership and mechanised resources. #SDG4