Conference of Parties (COPs)
Ninth Conference of Parties to the Nairobi Convention: Heads of Delegation Provisional Agenda
The Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region was convened by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi from 17 to 21 June 1985, and attended by the representatives of France (Réunion), Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia, the United Republic of Tanzania and the European Community.
These rules of procedure shall apply to any meeting or conference of the Contracting Parties convened under the Convention for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region.
The Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region was convened by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. The Conference adopted the action plan, Convention, Protocols and Conference resolutions. It also adopted the Final Act of the Conference.
This document profiles the decisions of the Sixth Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP) to the Convention for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region (Nairobi Convention). The theme of the meeting was Sustaining Progress
The Ocean Health Index is a new method to define and quantify the health of the ocean in a comprehensive and integrated way. A healthy ocean is defined as one that can sustainability deliver a range of benefits to people now and in the future. The Ocean Health Index (the Index) tracks how countries are doing across a portfolio of 10 goals that people have for a healthy ocean.
In view of the major discoveries oil and gas in the WIO region and the potential social and economic impacts on the economies of the countries on one hand and negative environmental impacts on the other hand it is prudent that adequate governance mechanisms are put in place.
The recent findings of oil and gas in the South Western Indian Ocean (SWIO) region are resulting in a new and unexpected economic dynamic in this part of the Africa continent. Although not a totally new feature, sporadic exploration having taken place for several decades, the recent developments have been made possible by advances in drilling technology and made more urgent by rising oil prices and problems of accessing traditional sources of supply due to current conflicts in the Middle East.
The fourth meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection, Management, and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region (Nairobi Convention) was held in Antananarivo, Madagascar, from 6 to 8 July 2004. The meeting was convened by the Secretariat of the Nairobi Convention at the kind invitation of the Government of the Republic of Madagascar.
