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Winston Anderson Lecture May 29, 2009

Professor of Law, Faculty of Law
University of the West Indies (UWI)
Executive Director of Caribbean Law
Institute Centre (CLIC), (UWI)

Winston.anderson@cavehill.uwi.edu

Green Energy Report 

October 2006

"Towards a Green Power Vision and Strategy for Atlantic Canada"
Prepared by: Judy Lipp, Dalhousie University and Ecology Action Centre, Martin Tampier, Environmental Intelligence and Mary Pattenden, Pollution Probe.

Marine Biodiversity Workshop

Held Tuesday January 17, 2006
Marine & Environmental Law Institute
Dalhousie Law School
Halifax, Nova Scotia

On January 17, 2006, the Marine & Environmental Law Institute based at Dalhousie Law School organized and hosted a one-day workshop on the issue of Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ). The workshop was organized with the financial support and cooperation of the Department of Foreign Affairs, in particular the Oceans and Environmental Law Division, in cooperation with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (International Coordination and Policy Analysis) and Environment Canada (Biodiversity Convention Office).

The workshop was specifically designed as an informal workshop with a number of invited lead commentators drawn from academia, ENGOs, industry and government, but with no formal papers or presentations (with one exception, see Appendix III). Instead, a summary of the lead commentators’ observations and the ensuing discussion is provided in this report.

The workshop had two primary objectives:

  • to provide additional information and identify issues to assist in the formulation of a “Canadian view” on the issue of BBNJ for the interagency delegation that would be attending the first meeting (February 13-17, 2006) of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group on conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction created pursuant to UN resolution (59/24) which was passed in November 2004 at the 59th UN General Assembly.
  • to provide an opportunity for the exchange of information and a forum for informal discussion among science, law and policy researchers, ENGOs and industry and relevant government departments with the view to further exchanges.

The workshop agenda was organized into three substantive/descriptive sessions aimed at providing information on the issue of high seas biodiversity and, specifically, high seas fisheries and bioprospecting and genetic resources of the seabed, and current policy and legal issues and responses. This was followed by a fourth session exploring potential approaches and options at the international level to these issues. The workshop culminated in a facilitated discussion which considered, inter alia, a number of questions on issues raised in the earlier sessions, with a particular emphasis on policy options (a copy of the “questions for discussion” is found in Appendix V).

A copy of the agenda is found in Appendix I. A list of participants that attended the workshop is found in Appendix II.  Copies of the main background documents for the workshop are found in Appendix IV.  As indicated above, the following report provides a brief summary of the key points made by the lead commentators for each of the four sessions and summarizes the resulting discussion on the topics.

Renewable Energy Promotion Atlantic Canada

Overview of renewable energy law and policy options for Atlantic Canada: Held Thursday, May 19, 2005
Marine & Environmental Law Institute
Dalhousie Law School
Halifax, Nova Scotia

 

 

  • Renewable Energy Law and Policy in Europe (Preben Maegaard, World Wind Energy Association)
  • Renewable energy across Canada (Kenneth B. Ogilvie, Pollution Probe)
  • A Nova Scotia perspective on renewable energy (Scott McCoombs, Nova Scotia Department of Energy)

Co-sponsored by the Ocean Management Research Network; other supporters include the David Suzuki Foundation, Pollution Probe, Ecology Action Centre and the School for Resource and Environmental Studies.

Power-point presentations