Download: Summary Report of LME19

The Annual meeting was preceded by the Partnership Meeting “Building International Partnership to Enhance Science-Based Ecosystem Approaches in Support of Regional Ocean Governance” (27 – 28 November 2017).

Presentations and Meeting Content

1 - Opening Session

Objectives and structure of the LME19 Annual Consultative Meeting
Ivica Trumbic, GEF LME:LEARN PCU

2 - Working Groups on Governance and Ecosystem Based Management: Introduction

Objectives, structure and expected outcomes of the session 2
Wojciech Wawrzynski, ICES 

Introduction to the toolkits 
Lauren Wenzel, U.S. NOAA

Presentation of the toolkits (10’ for each toolkit)

• Governance (Ellen Johanessen, ICES)
• LME Strategic Approach (Lucy Scott, IOC/UNESCO)
• LME Project Approach (Stephen Donkor, IOC/UNESCO)
• Environmental Economics (Luke Brander, IUCN)
• Stakeholder Participation (Ana Guzman, CI) & LME Scorecard (Johanna Polsenberg, CI)
• Marine Spatial Planning (Clare Waldmann, s.Pro)

Linking the toolkits 
Ivica Trumbic, GEF LME:LEARN PCU

EU MSP Roadmap and interaction with the LME community
Alejandro Iglesias-Campos, UNESCO-IOC

3 - Working Groups on Governance and Ecosystem-Based Management: Discussing the toolkits
 

4 – Capacity Development Session

Launch of the LME Massive Online Open Course and discussion
Emma Kelley, U.S. NOAA
The LME: LEARN

The LME Agenda: Implementing Strategic Action Programmes and the SDGs
David Vousden, Consultant

Preview of the two training sessions: 

Communications and Spatial Data Management Training Opportunity (GRID) 
Miles MacMillanLawler, GRID-Arendal

Systematic integration of the economic valuation of “wet” ecosystem services into the TDASAP process (UNIDO)
Christian Susan, UNIDO

5 – Regional Networks

Summary of the Regional Networks Meetings
Natalie Degger, GEF LME:LEARN PCU

6 - Data and Information Management Working Group Session 

Objectives and expected outcomes of the session
Vladimir Mamaev, UNDP

Demonstration of the LME Hub prototype
Andy Jeffrey, IUCN

LME/Marine Database and Marine Portal
Mish Hamid, GEF LME:LEARN

Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) effort in support of the UN SDGs, especially SDG14
Rebecca Shuford, U.S. NOAA

Overview Presentation: Status of Data Management in the Marine and Coastal Portfolio, Vision for Standards on Results Reporting and Discussion
Chris Patterson, LME:LEARN 

Training session on the systematic integration of the economic valuation of “wet” ecosystem services into the TDA-SAP process

Session 1: Introduction to Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services
Christian Susan, UNIDO & Eduard Interwies, UNIDO

Session 2, part I: Providing a first estimation of the Economic Value of Ecosystem Services in IW-projects: Aim and Scope of a Tier 1 Economic Valuation & Setting the Scene and Scoping

Session 2, part II: Providing a first estimation of the Economic Value of Ecosystem Services in IW-projects: The Repository of Valuation Studies and Valuation Methods

Session 3, part I: In-depth economic evaluation of Ecosystem Services in IWprojects Block I: Aim and Scope of an indepth Economic Evaluation - the Policy Appraisal Context

Session 3, part II: In-depth economic evaluation of Ecosystem Services in IWprojects Block II: Basics - Scoping

Session 3, part III: In-depth economic evaluation of Ecosystem Services in IWprojects Block III: Overview of the most important valuation methodologies

Training Opportunity for GEF Projects on Communications and Website and Spatial Data 

Miles Macmillan-Lawler, GRID-Arendal

Introduction to the IWLEARN toolkits: web, visualization, communications

Standards for data and information management: metadata, GeoNode, visualizing results

Hands on session on using Geonode – Uploading data, metadata and styles

Hands on session on using Geonode - Visualizing data and interactive map creation