The Joint CEP/SC-CAMLR Workshop on Climate Change and Monitoring was a timely and useful exercise that produced a number of recommendations with relevance to CCAMLR XXXV, SC-CAMLR XXXV and the planned SC-CAMLR Symposium. In this paper, ASOC highlights some actions for SC-CAMLR and the Commission so that implementation of these recommendations can begin immediately, including:
o developing a climate change response work programme and a list of key scientific questions for SC-CAMLR;
o inviting SCAR, ICED and SOOS to attend WG-EMM-17;
o making CEMP and other CCAMLR data more visible and accessible;
o requesting SCAR to submit ACCE updates to SC-CAMLR;
o linking discussions about key scientific questions on climate change to MPA discussions;
o providing annual updates on climate change-related work to the CEP;
o including climate change in working group discussions;
o developing a response to ocean acidification; and,
o encouraging fishing vessels to assist in data collection.
Follow up to the Joint CEP/SC-CAMLR Workshop on Climate Change and Monitoring
Document Number:
CCAMLR-XXXV/BG/24
Submitted By:
Ms Claire Christian (ASOC)
Approved By:
Ms Claire Christian (ASOC)
Abstract