[Coral-List] Webinar announcement for #CleanSeas campaign

Thu Jan 11 16:03:23 EST 2018

Hi Coral-Listers!

I would like to let you know about an upcoming webinar on Feb 8th,
discussing the fight against marine plastics using the #CleanSeas campaign.
It would be great if you could attend! More information below.

best,
Raye

-- 
Raye Evrard
Project Manager | OpenChannels <http://www.openchannels.org>
OCTO (Open Communication for The Ocean)
raye at octogroup.org

*Engaging governments, businesses, and the public in the fight against
marine plastic litter: the #CleanSeas campaign*

Join us for a webinar on Feb 08, 2018 at 1:00 PM EST.

Register Here
<https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6035325265841774850>

Webinar presented by Carla Friedrich of UN Environment.

UN Environment launched #CleanSeas in February 2017 to engage governments,
the general public, civil society and the private sector in the fight
against marine plastic litter. This campaign is addressing the root cause
of marine litter by targeting the production and consumption of
non-recoverable and single-use plastic. It is also giving a platform to
hundreds of local organizations doing important work on marine litter to
highlight their efforts. The campaign contributes to the goals of the
Global Partnership on Marine Litter, a voluntary open-ended partnership for
international agencies, governments, businesses, academia, local
authorities and non-governmental organizations hosted by UN Environment.
Learn more about #CleanSeas at http://cleanseas.org.

Webinar co-sponsored by the NOAA National MPA Center, MPA News, and the EBM
Tools Network (co-coordinated by OCTO and NatureServe).

*Other upcoming EBM Tools Network events**:*

*Thursday, February 8, 1 pm EST/10 am PST/6 pm UTC*

*Engaging governments, businesses, and the public in the fight against
marine plastic litter: the #CleanSeas campaign by Carla **Friedrich of UN
Environment*. UN Environment launched #CleanSeas in February 2017 to engage
governments, the general public, civil society and the private sector in
the fight against marine plastic litter. This campaign is addressing the
root cause of marine litter by targeting the production and consumption of
non-recoverable and single-use plastic. It is also giving a platform to
hundreds of local organizations doing important work on marine litter to
highlight their efforts. The campaign contributes to the goals of the Global
Partnership on Marine Litter
<http://www.unep.org/gpa/what-we-do/global-partnership-marine-litter>, a
voluntary open-ended partnership for international agencies, governments,
businesses, academia, local authorities and non-governmental organizations
hosted by UN Environment. Learn more about #CleanSeas at http://cleanseas
..org. Webinar co-sponsored by the NOAA National MPA Center, MPA News, and
the EBM Tools Network (co-coordinated by OCTO and NatureServe). *Register
for the webinar
at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6035325265841774850
<https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6035325265841774850>.*

*Tuesday, February 13, 2 pm EST/11 am PST/7 pm UTC*

*What we can do to curb social and human rights abuses in the seafood
industry by Jack Kittinger, Nathan Bennett, Lydia Teh, Katrina Nakamura,
Eddie Allison, and Yoshi Ota..* Scientists have been working to make
fisheries environmentally sustainable for decades. But startling exposés of
human rights violations (particularly the widespread use of slave labor) in
the seafood industry in the past few years have highlighted the need for
governments, businesses, and nonprofits to start working together to
address human rights and social issues in the sector – including access to
resources and markets, food security, and livelihood security. Conservation
International recently spearheaded a working group of environmental NGOs,
social responsibility NGOs, academics, and business leaders to develop a
framework for social responsibility and offer concrete recommendations to
businesses, governments, and NGOs for ensuring that social responsibility
is enforced throughout the seafood supply chain.These recommendations will
help businesses reduce reputational risks in their seafood supply chains.
They will help governments better regulate marine resources and their
national seafood industries. And they will also help nonprofits and donor
organizations determine the best ways to direct their resources to address
critical social issues. Learn more at http://stories.conservation
...org/a-sea-change-for-seafood
<http://stories.conservation.org/a-sea-change-for-seafood>. Webinar hosted
by the EBM Tools Network (co-coordinated by OCTO and NatureServe). *Register
for the webinar at *
*https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MHePIJJRRE-k8RysYSJCww*
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MHePIJJRRE-k8RysYSJCww>*.*

*Thursday, March 22, 2 pm EDT/11 am PDT/6 pm UTC*

*Optimizing Restoration Activities for Ecosystem Services: The Restoration
Opportunities Optimization Tool (ROOT) by Peter Hawthorne of the University
of Minnesota and the Natural Capital Project.* Restoration Opportunities
Optimization Tool (ROOT) is a software tool that helps decision makers
evaluate trade-offs among different ecosystem services and visualize where
investments in restoration could be made to optimize benefits for multiple
landscape goals. It uses information about the potential impacts of
restoration or management activities together with spatial prioritization
or serviceshed maps to identify key areas for ecosystem service provision.
It then uses multi-objective analysis to allow users to consider how to
best manage tradeoffs between different project goals. ROOT has been
applied in Costa Rica, Myanmar, Malawi, Colombia, and Brazil’s Espirito
Santo State to help these countries optimize the placement of restoration
activities for ecosystem services in national and subnational conservation,
development, and agricultural objectives in support of increased ecological
function to benefit people and livelihoods. It has not yet been applied in
a coastal context but is applicable to coastal areas as well. The tool is
free for download and use at https://www.naturalcapitalproject.org/root.
Webinar co-sponsored by EBM Tools Network (co-coordinated by OCTO and
NatureServe). *Register for the webinar at *
*https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aRKelKZITpeb-1z-NX23ig*
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aRKelKZITpeb-1z-NX23ig>*.*

*Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 6 pm US EDT/3 pm US PDT/10 pm UTC*

*Wednesday, April 11, 8 am Australia EST/10 am New Zealand ST*

*Ghost Fishing Gear: The Global Problem and the Global Solution by Ingrid
Giskes of World Animal Protection, David Parker of Young’s Seafood, and
Joan Drinkin of Natural Resource Consultants.* Each year, worldwide,
millions of marine animals are injured or killed by abandoned, lost, or
discarded fishing gear – ‘ghost gear’. In 2014, World Animal Protection
launched its Sea Change campaign with the Fishing’s Phantom Menace report
<https://www.worldanimalprotection.org/sites/default/files/int_files/sea-change-campaign-tackling-ghost-fishing-gear_0.pdf>,
highlighting that cross-sectoral global collaboration was the only way to
combat ghost gear. In 2015, World Animal Protection launched the Global
Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI), bringing together a critical group of
stakeholders and experts on this topic. The GGGI addresses sea-based
sources of marine debris, specifically abandoned, lost, and discarded
fishing gear, and contributes to the delivery of the first target under UN
Sustainable Development Goal 14, calling for a significant reduction in
marine debris of all kinds by 2025. Now, as we head into 2018, join us to
hear about how the GGGI’s three working groups – Building Evidence, Best
Practice, and Solutions – have played a key role in formulating a global
approach and strategy to tackling this deadly issue and working towards
ghost gear-free seas. Learn more at https://www.ghostgear.org. Webinar
co-sponsored by MarineDebris.info and the EBM Tools Network (co-coordinated
by OCTO and NatureServe). *Register for the webinar at *
*https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BdYuG7YuRp-zkta_B7wVqQ*
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BdYuG7YuRp-zkta_B7wVqQ>*.*

Best wishes for your work,

Sarah Carr

Network Coordinator

Coastal-Marine EBM Tools Network

Co-coordinated by OCTO and NatureServe

www.ebmtools.org
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