Appropriate tools and mechanism must be developed to protect ocean resources and biodiversity while sustaining livelihoods that are compatible with healthy ecosystems.
These include increasing social disparities and inequity, population growth, climate change, the deterioration and pollution of the environment, the unsustainable use of freshwater and depletion of ocean resources, as well as increasing cases of natural and human-made disasters.
The Energy and Natural Resources Committee should want to ascertain whether any American company is going to be willing to explore the ocean floors' resources if, as the price of doing so, they have to give sensitive data and technology to international competitors.
Indigenous knowledge about the ocean and its resources must also contribute to this process.
Management procedures and policies leading to the sustainability of coastal and ocean environment and resources.
The purse seines are so efficient that the ocean's resources are being depleted.
With this partnership, we hope to encourage youth and coastal communities to become engaged in the protection of their ocean and water resources.
Just north of San Diego, on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Poseidon Resources is building the biggest water desalination plant in the United States.
Many factors must be considered to understand how shifts at the individual or species level might ripple through an entire ecosystem and affect ocean services and resources.
The deputies considered nominees for the Governance Coordinating Committee, worked to establish two Interagency Policy Committees, and solidified the connection with the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel.
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Know our ocean: How can science and technology serve coastal nations for the sustainable management of ocean and coastal resources, the protection of their coastal populations, and to maintain ecosystem services?
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.
The Indian Minister for Human Resources and ocean development said a group had been formed to oversee further studies in the area.
Planet Ocean ensures that its message further stresses how human conduct in the ocean acts to destroy resources that we need to feed our people (such as overfishing).
UNESCO-IOC has for over 50 years been promoting international cooperation and coordinating programmes in marine research, services, observation systems, hazard mitigation, and capacity development in order to understand and effectively manage the resources of the ocean and coastal areas.
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO-IOC) promotes international cooperation and coordinates programmes in marine research, services, observation systems, hazard mitigation and capacity development in order to learn more and better manage the nature and resources of the ocean and coastal areas.
'promote international cooperation and to coordinate programmes in research, services and capacity building, in order to learn more about the nature and resources of the ocean and coastal areas and to apply that knowledge for the improvement of management, sustainable development and protection of the marine environment and the decision-making process of its Member States'.
For example, its governing body would be empowered to impose what amount to international taxes on resources extracted from the ocean floor and subsurface.
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The President is committed to ensuring the health and productivity of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources for the benefit of all Americans.
WHITEHOUSE: Deputies Building on Great Momentum for Our Oceans
Other resources include the Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability, an inter-agency document which puts forward 10 proposals to protect marine habitats, a key resource for the future of the planet.
California's Department of Water Resources says it would like ocean water desalination to add 500, 000 acre-feet a year of water to the Golden State's supplies, a modest amount compared with California's overall water consumption.
And I think that -- we also are around the coast of the Red Dog Mine, and they have decided that they're going to have a discharge pipeline to our ocean, where we highly rely on our food resources.
The main focus of commemorative activities was on creating awareness and demonstrating the importance of IOC achievements, promoting a better image of UNESCO and its IOC, and obtaining the commitment of Governments to take action and provide adequate resources to support the IOC and the Ocean.
Organise, plan and secure resources to implement the programmes of IOC in ocean science, observations and services in the member states in Africa, ensuring that capacity is developed strategically and within the IOC Capacity-development guidelines.
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Ocean monitoring improves the management of marine and coastal ecosystems and resources, and protects life and property on coasts and at sea.
This is about common resources that flow though political boundaries: our atmosphere and our ocean.
But since thousands of kilometers of open ocean separate the island nation from mainland Europe, sharing those clean energy resources has so far been impossible.
We have the know-how and resources to conserve and restore the aquatic and marine systems that keep the ocean and us healthy.
Customers will now have the ability to conduct missions, 24x7, through all weather conditions, across most of the planet to help solve some of the world's critical problems such as global climate change, ocean acidification, fisheries management, hurricane prediction, tsunami warning and exploration for valuable natural resources.
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At the same time, it is blessed with other natural and marine resources as the country stretches from the north of the Bay of Bengal to the vast Indian Ocean.
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