Project Abstract:
I consider a great, and serious, blank according to the issues pointed below:
1 – oceans have a primary role on the temperature settling and on the Earth’s carbon balance. The consideration of this liquid frontier, which covers almost 70% of The Earth’s surface, generally distant from daily life activities of humans that live in cities spread in inner continental areas, can’t be forgotten considering climate changes and global events;
2 – oceans still behave themselves as final receiver of the highest number of liquid effluents and solid residues produced by cities, Agriculture and cattle-breeding activities and Earth’s industries;
3 – most of the world’s cities, metropolis and megalopolis are situated in costal zones. All activities developed there influence directly the coastal ecosystems – terrestrial, transition and marine – and repercute on the services qualities and natural resources assured by them;
4 – the coastal zones – transitional region between oceans and continental areas – show the highest rates of diversity and biological production of the world. As well as a great number of endemic species (species that occur only in these regions);
Project Abstract English:
5 – the major capture of renewable biological resources occur in these regions (oceanic areas show themselves, like deserts, as of a very low biological productivity) and almost all kinds of fishing resources are subdued to an over-exploration process (when biomass is removed more than that one that is able to be reestablished by the shoal and the renewable biological resource transform itself on a non-renewable biological resource);
6 – increase of the number of people and cities in coastal zones. Nowadays around 50% of the world’s population lives in these regions; on 2050 it’s estimated that this number will be around 75%;
7 – intensification of the occupation of the coastal regions by homes and tourist undertaking – specially in Brazil – with expropriation and lodging traditional populations and culture destruction and etnoknowledge;
8 – inclusion of factory and port installations as well as exploring activities ad hydrocarbon production ( petrol and gas, mainly) and mineral resources;
9 – reduction of high high-protein quality food offer and of easy digestion that show themselves as vital for a great population contingent of poor countries placed in these regions, observed in Asia, Africa and South America;
10 – the governmental actions – in the countries range – and intergovernmental – related to the multilateral institutions – have not been able to face, in an proper and effective way, such serious problems.
II GlobalGreens Meeting
Sao Paulo, 1st - 4th of May, 2008
Oceans and Coastal Zones Workshop
Suggestion to the Thematic Presentation and Expected Products
First Approach
Goals:
Present the theme –Oceans and coastal zones: importance and role for climate change, to biological diversity’s upkeeping and for the populations that live in coastal zones – coming from a diagnosis that subsidizes the discussion and the definition of a new chapter in The Earth’s Green Chart and that demonstrates the necessity of these themes being dealt with by the public politics as in the candidate’s political platform as, and mainly, in the actions of the legislature and executive in the most different spheres of power: local, regional and national scopes.
Target public:
Participants of the II Global Greens Meeting
Format:
Workshops directed to the presentation, discussion and summary of the results from key themes defined
Expected Product:
A diagnosis about the magnitude and seriousness of the themes related to the oceans matter, coastal zones and institutional setting of legal instruments and strategies to deal with the matter.
Working Methods:
1. Each workshop will be consisted of:
a. coordinator who will act helping to facilitate the activities;
b. specialist who will present , in a 20-minute long speech, the main points around the dealt theme;
c. relator who will join the main points dealt even by the specialist as by the other participants, and will create a synthesis document of the workshop to build up the document which will synthesize the strategies around the insertion on the theme Oceans and Coastal Zones in Earth’s Green Chart.
2. Each Presentation will must broach, in a organized, simplified and intelligible way, the following topics:
I - Importance of the theme in what is related to Oceans and Costal Zones;
II - History: presentation of the main occurred events;
III - Diagnosis: present situation of the presented theme, concerned the knowledges existents and the main international normative instruments, institutes that acts in the area and examples of national, state and municipal public politics;
IV - Prospectives Scene: to give the idea of what can happen with the presented theme.
3. The time to make each workshop will must be 2 hours distributed this way:
Theme Presentation 30 minutes
Discussion with the participants 75 minutes
Reports, conclusion and presentation of the proposals 15 minutes
4. Suggested Workshops:
a. The importance of the oceans to the global climate, adjustment and control instruments and strategies to face the matter;
b. The importance of the oceans to the biodiversity, adjustment and control instruments and strategies to face the matter;
c. Oceans, the common areas and the exclusive economical zones: importance to mankind;
d. Oceans, coastal zones and the renewable biological resources;
e. Oceans, coastal zones and the mineral and energetic resources;
f. Oceans, coastal zones, the protection of the vital ecosystems and conservation unities;
g. Oceans, coastal zones and the threatened fauna;
h. Oceans, coastal zones and the insertion of exotic species;
i. Oceans and the coastal zones as a final destination of solid residues, atmospheric emits, liquid effluents and radioactive waste;
j. The Oceans and the marine transportation: risks and threats;
k. The coastal zones: degraded vital areas increasingly threatened and vulnerable;
l. Oceans, coastal zones, culture and etnoknowledge: intangible mankind patrimony;
m. Oceans and geopolitics: premise and risks;
n. Oceanschool: education for inclusion of the issue among the population
5. By the end of the day, and after all the workshops finished, will there be a discussion to present, in a synthesized way, the results gained by each one of the workshops;
6. The plans for the activities are represented below:
7. Physical Structure Required:
Five room with data-show, chairs and sound system (depending on the number of enrolled people) to make the workshops.
An auditorium to make the discussion with data-show, sound system and instant translating.
8. Next Steps:
Once approved this here mentioned proposal we will give continuity to the broadcasting process and identification of the coordinators, specialists and relators that will act in each one of the workshops.
For that, we will use contacts, network and mails list.
We don’t find it difficult to identify highly regarded professionals to be present in the workshops.
9. Doubts and Suggestions:
Feel yourselves at ease.
We are at your disposal to adapt this document to the reality of the event.
Sincerely yours,
Santos, April, 6th, 2008
Paulo F.Garreta Harkot
Oceanographer and Master in Public Health / Epidemiology
Oceanographer (1985) was consultant for the FAO, UNDP, and other institutions along the coast of Brazil and other countries of South, Central and North America.
Is professor since 2002 and key speaker in many technical events and researcher in the Environmental and Health Information Program of de Sao Paulo University in coastal zone and environment and health and development of teaching and learning tools.
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