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Overview
Led by the France Pacific Territories committee working in partnership with other member committees, a PECC international project entitled "Sustainable Management of Marine Resources" is implemented throughout the two-year period of 2011/ 2012.
Program Schedule
Seminar 1: Oceans at Risk - Protection from oceans to coast, sharing marine resources (program agenda and presentations available for download)
November 22-24 2011 | Noumea, New Caledonia
- Consequences of climate change on marine life
- Control of overfishing and overfarming
- Treatment of solid and liquid waste, industrial and urban, or coastal areas and vessels
- Sustainable management of biological resources; increasing the value chain of marine biodiversity
- New economic models
Seminar 2: Oceans as a Source of Renewable Energy
March 26-28, 2012 | Hawaii, USA
- New sources of energy from the sea: thermal, wave, tidal, wind, etc.
- Available technologies, new technologies/ industries to be developed for a better and wider use of energy from the sea
- Ways to increase use of energy from marine resources e.g. reserach and incentives
- Marine energy in the sustainable cities - cost and financing of the infrastructures
Seminar 3:
November 2012 | Auckland, New Zealand (TBC)
Part A) Management of Marine Natural Resources
- Deepsea exploitation of mineral deposits
- Underground deepsea mining for oil, gas and minerals
- Collection of dissolved minerals and gas in the water
Part B) Sea as a Channel of Communication
- Maritime transportation
- Link countries for a better communication - a case for a transpacific telecommunication cables in the Pacific Ocean
PECC committees from the following economies have indicated interest to participate: Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, the United States.
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