MARINE AND COASTAL BIODIVERSITY DRAFT SUMMARY …：海洋和沿海生物多样性的草案摘要….doc

CBD Distr. GENERAL UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/18/4/Add.1 14 May 2014 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH SUBSIDIARY BODY ON SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVICE Eighteenth meeting Montreal, 23-28 June 2014Item 4.1 of the provisional agenda* Marine and coastal biodiversity: Draft summary report on the description of areas meeting the scientific criteria for ecologically or biologically significant marine areas Addendum Note by the Executive Secretary Background Pursuant to paragraph 36 of decision X/29 and paragraph 12 of decision XI/17, seven additional regional workshops were convened by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, as follows: Southern Indian Ocean (Flic en Flac, Mauritius, 31 July to 3 August 2012); Eastern Tropical and Temperate Pacific (Galapagos, Ecuador, 28 to 31 August 2012); North Pacific (Moscow, Russian Federation, 25 February to 1 March 2013); South-Eastern Atlantic (Swakopmund, Namibia, 8 to 12 April 2013); Arctic (Helsinki, Finland, 3 to 7 March 2014); North-West Atlantic (Montreal, Canada, 24 to 28 March 2014); and Mediterranean (Málaga, Spain, 7 to 11 April 2014). Pursuant to paragraph 12 of decision XI/17, summaries of the results of these regional workshops are provided in tables 1 to 7 below, respectively, while full descriptions of how the areas meet the criteria for ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) are provided in the annexes to the respective reports of the workshops (UNEP/CBD/RW/EBSA/SIO/1/4, UNEP/CBD/RW/EBSA/ETTP/1/4, UNEP/CBD/EBSA/NP/1/4, UNEP/CBD/RW/EBSA/SEA/1/4, UNEP/CBD/EBSA/WS/2014/1/5, UNEP/CBD/EBSA/WS/2014/2/4, UNEP/CBD/EBSA/WS/2014/3/4). In paragraph 26 of decision X/29, the Conference of Parties noted that the application of the EBSA criteria is a scientific and technical exercise, that areas found to meet the criteria may require enhanced conservation and management measures, and that this can be achieved through a variety of means, including marine protected areas and imp