The debate was also used to give MEPs the chance to question the Commission on the role of the Common Fisheries Policy in developing local economies, such as creating jobs for coastal communities and sustaining traditional cultures.
Michel Jarraud (Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization) presented early warning systems for the protection of coastal communities.
The money is among four handouts from the government's Coastal Communities Fund for seaside areas.
The conclusions for different regions will be synthesized into a set of recommendations for policymakers, managers and stakeholders (fishers and coastal communities).
It isn't as if the coastal communities who rely on the wetlands for protection and economic vitalization are choosing to live in dangerous places.
The author explains that wreckers were not so much vicious as desperately poor, and that coastal communities saw ships' cargoes as theirs for the taking because they would otherwise be consigned to rot on the seabed.
The BP oil leak is an unmitigated disaster, not just for the crude reasons now covering the Gulf of Mexico and coastal communities.
"There will be increased tourism, increased visitors in the coastal communities and that will hopefully generate new enterprises and further income for those businesses, " she said.
It has also shown that national authorities must take risk into account at all levels, including education about hazards in schools, urban planning in coastal zones, modification of building codes and materials, evacuation plans for communities and organization of effective emergency services.
"By moving ahead with this World Trade Organization challenge, we stand behind the thousands of Canadians in coastal and northern communities who depend on the seal harvest to provide a livelihood for their families, " Ms Shea said.
Oceans Day at Durban will draw high-level attention to ocean issues during the COP17 climate talks, highlighting the direct link between climate change, the health of the oceans, and human well-being, as well as the need for sufficient funding to support bold mitigation and adaptation measures that will minimize climate change impacts on coastal communities and ocean ecosystems and resources.
Coastal communities and small island developing states (SIDS), which rely on marine-based ecosystem services for a significant portion of their livelihoods, will be the first to feel the impacts of increased ocean acidification.
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