Ocean Data Viewer

Decision
World Summit on Sustainable Development - Agenda 21
Datasets Covered

Summary
Tens of thousands of people, including heads of State and Government and national delegates, business and industry, non-governmental organisations, scientific and technological communities, trade unions, representing children and youth, farmers, indigenous people, local authorities, women and workers attended the Summit. The purpose was to bring attention and focus on actions to address some of the world’s most pressing issues related to livelihoods as well as the conservation of natural resources while demands from a growing human population are increasing. This gathering provided an opportunity to review Agenda 21, which was adopted 10 years earlier at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, Brazil, and to add further actions and measurable targets for a plan of implementation.

Established
Adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, Brazil. Reviewed September 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) / The Johannesburg Summit

Key Points
The marine and coastal issues were represented through two key targets: these include (1) the promotion of Integrated Coastal Management (ICM), which aims to assist with development of ocean policies and mechanisms on ICM; improvement of science and assessment of marine and coastal ecosystems; and promotion of sustainable tourism and (2) protection of coastal biodiversity through maintenance of productivity; provision of financial and technological assistance for capacity, especially in developing countries; develop and facilitate the use of different tools and practices to maintain diversity, including representative networks of marine protected areas by 2012 and elimination of destructive fishing practices; implement the Ramsar Convention and the International Coral Reef Initiative; and halting the loss of marine biodiversity by 2010.

Links
Agenda 21

WSSD website

Tools in partnership with UNEP-WCMC

GRAME Database
In support of a proposed UN Regular Process for the Global Reporting and Assessment of the Marine Environment, including Socio-Economic Aspects, this is a searchable database of over 1000 relevant assessments, scientific research studies and data holdings at a range of scales.

Coral Disease Database
The first version of the GCDD was launched in 2000 and was populated with some 2000 points of data from 155 references, mostly peer reviewed scientific literature. more.
Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool
IBAT for business is an innovative tool designed to facilitate access to accurate and up-to-date biodiversity information to support critical business decisions. The tool is the result of a ground-breaking conservation partnership among BirdLife International, Conservation International, International Union for Conservation of Nature and UNEP-WCMC.

Coral Reef Watch
The Coral Reef Watch mission is to utilize remote sensing and in situ tools for near-real-time and long term monitoring, modeling and reporting of physical environmental conditions of coral reef ecosystems.
Protected Planet
This new interactive website provides data from the World Database on Protected Areas, a partnership between UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, and presents it in combination with other data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Wikipedia, Flickr, and Panoramio. It also provides statistics about protected areas by country.

Habitat Validation Tool
This tool allows basic editing and validation of coastal habitat data and is being tested with the Global Distribution of Coral Reefs (2010) and the African subset of the USGS Global Distribution of Mangrove (2000) dataset. This tool will ultimately improve the accuracy of coastal habitat datasets supporting better decision-making. It forms part of our work under the Better Data, Better Decisions Initiative.
2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (2010 BIP)
The 2010 BIP, hosted by UNEP-WCMC, is a global initiative to track progress towards achieving the CBD’s “2010 biodiversity target” to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. The Partnership brings together many international organizations working on indicators, to provide the best available information on biodiversity trends.

Global Island Database
The Global Island Database aims to enhance the participation and role of islands in international decision-making through identifying and bringing together existing sources of data and information relevant to island systems, and presenting new analyses to aid resource managers and decision-making.