Panel Discussion: 'Saving the Oceans from the Sky' with David Freestone, Efthymios Papastavridis, Catherine Redgwell & Gwilym Rowlands - CANCELLED

Past Event

Date
 22 February 2024, 5:00pm - 6:15pm

Location
 Oxford Martin School & Online
34 Broad Street (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets), Oxford, OX1 3BD

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Principles and Best Practice in the Use of Satellite Evidence for Monitoring and Enforcement of Area-Based Management Tools for Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation. Global biodiversity targets have set the ambitious goal of conserving 30% of the earth’s land and sea by 2030 through the establishment of protected areas and other area-based conservation measures. In the vast and remote ocean space of areas beyond national jurisdiction, the effectiveness of such measures will depend on the use of innovative monitoring and enforcement tools including earth observation/satellite imagery.

An example of the challenges – and of innovative solutions - is the high seas ‘biodiversity hot spot’ of the Sargasso Sea. Drawing on the lessons learned from existing uses of satellite tools, we identify ‘7 As’ comprising principles and best practice to be used as a road map for the effective use of satellite monitoring and enforcement for sustainable fisheries management and marine biodiversity conservation.

Panel:

  • Professor David Freestone, Executive Secretary of the Sargasso Sea Commission
  • Dr Efthymios (Akis) Papastavridis, Oxford Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on Sustainable Oceans
  • Professor Catherine Redgwell, Chichele Professor of Public International Law Emerita and Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Sustainable Oceans
  • Dr Gwilym Rowlands, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Biology, University of Oxford & Oxford Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on Sustainable Oceans

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Professor David Freestone
Executive Secretary of the Sargasso Sea Commission

Professor Freestone is the Executive Secretary of the Sargasso Sea Commission – an initiative led by the Government of Bermuda that he has directed since 2010. He is an Adjunct Professor/Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University Law School; a member of the Committee of Legal Experts of the Commission of Small Island States on International Law and Climate Change (COSIS); and Co-rapporteur of the International Law Association Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise.

He is the founding Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (now in its 39th year). He has written widely on the law of the sea and international environmental law. Recent works include: International Law Aspects of Sea Level Rise (World Bank, 2023) with Duygu Çiçek; International Law and Sea Level Rise. (Brill, 2019) with Davor Vidas and Jane McAdam; and Conserving Biodiversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (Ed., Brill, 2019). In 2008 he was awarded the Elizabeth Haub Gold Medal for Environmental Law.

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Dr Efthymios (Akis) Papastavridis
Oxford Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on Sustainable Oceans

Dr Papastavridis is currently a Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, and until recently he was an Oxford Martin Fellow at the Oxford Martin Sustainable Oceans Programme.

He has also been teaching at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford since 2016. Akis also consults the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Global Maritime Crime Programme and European Union agencies on matters concerning the law of the sea.

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Professor Catherine Redgwell
Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Sustainable Oceans

Professor Redgwell is Chichele Professor of Public International Law Emerita in the University of Oxford and co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Sustainable Oceans.

She has served as editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly; joint general editor of the British Year Book of International Law; and co-editor of the Oxford Monographs in International Law. She has published extensively in public international law, particularly in the areas of international environmental law, law of the sea, international energy law, and treaty law. Recent publications include co-authoring (with Alan Boyle) the leading text on international environmental law, International Law and the Environment (Oxford University Press), now in its 4th edn (2021).

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Dr Gwilym Rowlands
Oxford Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on Sustainable Oceans

Dr Gwilym Rowlands leads the Marine Spatial Ecology Applications (MSEA) group in the department of Biology, and until recently was an Oxford Martin Fellow on the Oxford Martin Sustainable Oceans Programme.

Gwilym’s work incorporates the tools of remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and geospatial modelling to better understand spatial and temporal dynamics of marine ecosystems, delivering practical solutions for conservation and management. His work spans marine fisheries, shallow water tropical ecosystems, and deep-water ecosystems.