< 1st Conference of National ICZM Committees in the Western Indian Ocean

6th Meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP6) to the Nairobi Convention

 

The Secretariat of the Nairobi Convention (Convention on the Protection and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region) is inviting all Parties to the Nairobi Convention to the COP6 from 29^th March until 1^st April 2010 at Nairobi, Kenya. Parties to the Nairobi Convention are Comoros, Kenya, La Réunion (France), Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia (tent.), South Africa and Tanzania.

Prominent matters for deliberation and/or signature during the event will be among many others:

• Amendments to the Nairobi Convention for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Western Indian Ocean (Amended Nairobi Convention);
• The Protocol for the Protection of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Western Indian Ocean from Land-Based Sources and Activities (LBSA Protocol); and
• A Mandate to enter into a drafting process of an ICZM Protocol to the Nairobi Convention

 

For more information: www.unep.org/NairobiConvention/