The Western Indian Ocean (WIO) is a region where high biodiversity is increasingly being impacted by anthropogenic marine debris.
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The NC-SWIOFC Partnership Project and the ACP-MEAs III Programme held a consultation meeting on the environment-fisheries nexus. The aim of this meeting was to to identify priority issues of concern and recommend processes that can be used to develop joint policy recommendations and indicators as well as knowledge and information sharing mechanisms while linking policy makers and key stakeholders in the environment and fisheries sectors.
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This Toolkit for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment (CCVA) of near-shore marine social-ecological systems in the Western Indian Ocean represents a set of guidelines and instructions for undertaking CCVA on coastal social and ecological systems, focused on mangrove, coral reef and seagrass ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean region (WIO). The Toolkit comprises a background on climate change and climate change vulnerability, including conceptual and analytical vulnerability assessment frameworks.
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Other Marine Spatial Planning and Information Management Workshop Documents and Presentations are accesible HERE.
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Other meeting documents and presentations are available here.
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Download the report from this meeting held in Nosy Be, Madagascar in 2022 below.
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In 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States, set out 17 interconnected
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The state of mangroves in the Western Indian Ocean report is the first report to quantify and map mangrove blue carbon, drivers of change, and restoration potential or mangroves in the region, using the latest and best globally available data.
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