ACCOBAMS Meeting of Parties: day two.
Many delegates meet early in the morning and are huddled
over various texts. The discussion about the scientific committee composition
has emerged as of potato of some heat and parties (only) meet to discuss how to
resolve this.
Later, Dr Lindy Weilgart of Dalhousie University
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| Lindy Weilgart |
Early in the meeting the Chair asks how the noise
resolutions are progressing and is promised texts by tomorrow.
The meeting plows through its documents approving and amending
as necessary and, come the afternoon, the Parties and Partners hold their first
vote for membership of the ‘follow-up committee’ (a body tasked with advising the
parties).
Ballot papers are collected and inspected. Delegates from France , Spain
and Tunisia
are appointed. For the partner organisations, three organisations dramatically tie
for two places and, one of them, OceanCare kindly withdraws its candidature.
This is all unprecedented.
Outside, the palm trees along the seafront move gently in
the breeze under a blue sky. They are largely unmoved by the proceedings.
The discussion about who sits in the Scientific Committee
continues. Similarly the noise scribes were still working and debating late
into the night….
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| One of Dr Weilgart's slides - a PDF of the full presentation can be seen here on the Ocean Care site. |
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| Giuseppe Notobartolo di Sciara of the Tethys Institute |
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| Sigi Luber and Nicolas Entrup of OceanCare/NRDC |
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