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Introduction to the International Legal Framework on Marine Biodiversity - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Course to the International Legal Framework on Marine Biodiversity Book: Book - Unit 1 - Introduction … alien species Climate change 3. Definition of marine biodiversity 4. The international legal framework 1. Why … serious threats to marine biodiversity are degradation and loss of habitats, overexploitation and indiscriminate fishing …
17 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Brochure - Sustainable Ocean Initiative

… on 2012 International Day for Biological Diversity: Marine Biodiversity A global platform to build partnerships and enhance capacity to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets related to marine and coastal … partners rose to the challenge of revers- ing biodiversity loss, which is occurring at an unprecedented rate—up to 1000 …
17 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Regional Sea Agreements

… Course to the International Legal Framework on Marine Biodiversity Book: Book - Unit 9 - Regional Sea Agreements … Caribbean Region (Cartagena Convention) 4. The Black Sea Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation Protocol to the … Specially Protected Areas (SPAs) and reducing the loss of marine and coastal biodiversity. …
17 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling

… Course to the International Legal Framework on Marine Biodiversity Book: Book - Unit 6 - International Convention … the efforts in the protection and preservation of marine biodiversity of the IWC and RFMOs. … taken of the high risks to over-exploitation and thereby loss to marine biodiversity. The moratorium will not be …
17 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… (last visited Oct. 10, 2014). 29 resources and to conserve biodiversity.”69 The agreement’s purpose is to “promote and … placed upon water by its various users, and the rate of loss of biodiversity in them surpasses that from other major biomes …
17 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… downstream rivers, affecting land use productivity due to loss of natural sediment depositions, and loss of fish … are located in international river basins. Similarly, the Biodiversity Convention, ratified by 191 parties, aims to promote the sustainable use of the world’s biodiversity.34 In relation to international watercourses, …
17 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

White Paper - Regional Seas Governance

… for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity, identifying their legal, institutional and … Legal and Policy Regime for the Conservation of Marine Biodiversity ... … efforts in just a few regions will still not prevent loss of marine biodiversity at the global level. One of the …
17 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater