2013 01 a sustainable severn estuary - brian shipman

Severn Estuary Partnership 2013 Brian Shipman1

A Sustainable Severn Estuary

Governance – an alternative model

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Brian Shipman - Consultant to the Mediterranean Action Plan

Severn Estuary Partnership 2013 Brian Shipman

COASTAL MANAGEMENT - THE UK APPROACHA sceptical view

• Based on 'voluntary' approach ..coastal fora, partnerships etc.

• UK subsidiarity

• Marine-centric

• Sectoral pre-eminence

• Incrementalism in place of national strategy


Short-termism

Non-statutory approach

Low political priority

Division of land & sea

Not strategic - “Spider’s web”- driven by funding cycles rather than strategic priorities

Limited measurable success - no performance indicators- no proven cause & effect between policy and environmental improvement

No purpose, vision or real challenge - other than to maintain the status quo

COASTAL MANAGEMENT - THE UK APPROACHA sceptical view


THE UK APPROACHA sceptical view


an alternative model…?


THE MEDITERRANEAN46,000 kms of coast

2,500,000 kms2

biodiversity-richmany and complex

ecosystems

Remarkable landscapes and heritage

Coastal Population 153 million

200 million+ tourists p.a.

40% now ‘concreted’


THE MEDITERRANEAN3 continents21 countries

diverse and volatilepolitics, cultures and economies

North-South asymmetry

with a ‘history’

25% of maritime oil transport

30% of maritime freight

…of all the world's continents only the

Mediterranean is liquid Jean Cocteau


1975 - UNEP sponsored Mediterranean Action Plan(16 countries plus European Community)

the first-ever Regional Seas Programme under the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)

1976 - International Treaty - Barcelona Convention

“Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against

Pollution “

Now - Key Players “Contracting Parties” 21 States, plus European Union

A summarised history…A remarkable Story

AlbaniaAlgeria Bosnia &

HerzegovinaCroatiaCyprusEgyptFranceGreeceIsraelItaly

LebanonLibyaMalta

MonacoMontenegro

MoroccoSlovenia

SpainSyria

TunisiaTurkey


…revolutions, the fall of communism, wars, Arab Springs etc.

4 TUMULTUOUS DECADES


REGIONAL ACTIVITY CENTRES

Marine pollution Sustainable development Biodiversity Cleaner Production

Environment & Development

1977

Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre

1976

Specially Protected Areas

1985

Cleaner Production (CP/RAC)

1996

1977Integrated Coastal Zone Management

(PAP/RAC)


1989 - 2013

DELVERY - COASTAL AREA MANAGENT PROGRAMMESICZM at local or national levels


GUIDANCE

Guidelines, Strategies and White Papers on coastal

managment and sustainable development

but...


2001 – a Turning point

“No real progress would be made with guidelines alone

Risk of stagnation or regression

A lack of effectiveness and implementation

Only specialists were aware of the documents

Almost everything has already been written”

= THE END OF THE VOLUNTARY APPROACH


2001 – a Turning point

The only truly viable way forward was the adoption of a legally binding regional instrument

Annual Meeting in 2001 of the Contracting Parties in Monaco launched the preparation of

the ICZM Protocol1 for the Mediterranean

Contrast with EU and UK approach1A “Protocol” – an international treaty that supplements or

amends a previous treaty


PROTOCOL ON INTEGRATED COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

2011 ICZM Protocol “entered into force”

The Little Red Book in 4 legal texts

Countries now ratifying and transposing

Ratified by EU in 2010

“the most significant global development in ICZM since Rio in 1992”


ICZM PROTOCOL

First supra-national, legally-binding agreement on ICZM in the world

Forward-looking and proactive: it aims at preventing and not only reacting to coastal problems

Integrated: it ensures institutional co-ordination of national, regional and local authorities, involvement of NGOs

Integrity of land AND sea areas


16 themes – 40 Obligatory ‘Articles’

Coastal zone boundaries

ICZM and/or coastal legislation

Coordination

Protection and sustainable use of the coastal zone

Economic activities

Coastal ecosystems, landscapes & cultural heritage

Participation

Awareness raising, training, education & research

Monitoring & review

National coastal strategies, plans and programmes, transboundary cooperation

Environmental and strategic assessments

Land policy

Economic, financial & fiscal instruments

Natural hazards & coastal erosion

Exchange of information and activities of common interest

Transboundary cooperation


DEFINITIVE COASTAL ZONE BOUNDARIES

Transcending land and the coastal waters – matching ecosystems to administrative entities

“the seaward limit …shall be the external limit of the territorial sea* of Parties and..

the landward limit ...shall be the limit of the competent coastal units”

CROATIA


STRATEGIC HIERARCHY

Regional sea and national ICZM strategies, local and transboundary plans and programmes


NATIONAL STRATEGY GUIDELINES

Political Recognition

Intra-Governmental and Inter-Ministerial Coordination

Partnerships and Ownership

Legal Basis

Long-term

Focus on Implementation

Extend to the external limit of the territorial sea (Article 3)

Fit for Purpose

Time Scale and Review

Strategies underway in Egypt, Algeria, Croatia and Montenegro

Istanbul 2011


INSTITUTIONAL CO-ORDINATION

Vertical and horizontal of national, regional and local authorities and the involvement of NGOs

SYRIA 2011Damascus 2010


DELIVERY ACTION PLAN 2012-2019

1. Support Protocol implementation

2. Strengthen the capacities of Contracting Parties

3. Promote the ICZM Protocol

Zagreb 2012


BIENNIAL MINISTERIAL MEETINGS

Country reporting and monitoring:“Progress Indicators”


MEASURING EFFECTIVENESS

Stocktake 2012 – by theme


Stocktake 2012 – by country

MEASURING EFFECTIVENESS

Dubrovnik 2012


CAPACITY BUILDING

International Training

Sub-regional workshop on inter-linkages between IWRM and ICZM, Algeria 2012


A SHARED METHODOLOGY

iczm process roadmap wiki

http://www.pegasoproject.eu/wiki/ICZM_Process_diagram


ANNUAL COAST DAY


INTEGRATING THE INTEGRATED

Reghaia Coastal Plan (Algeria)PAP/RAC, UNESCO-IHP, SPA/RAC

Transboundary Buna/Bojana Integrated Management Plan (Montenegro/Albania)PAP/RAC, GWP, UNESCO-IHP, SPA/RAC

Converging methodologiesGEF MedPartnership


AMBITIOUSDonors:

• GEF (Global Environment

Facility)• World Bank

• EIB (European Investment

Bank)• EU

• Bilateral

Horizon 2020 Initiative to de-pollute the Mediterranean by 2020

ANTALYA DECLARATION “To achieve by 2020 a …network of Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean ….“


THREATS

Migration

Climate Change

Conflict

Population growth (175m by 2025)

Natural Disasters

Corruption

etc etc..


MEDITERRANEAN SCORECARD

MEDITERRANEAN

Proven success ✔

Long-term ✔

Statutory, legal basis ✔

High political priority ✔

Unity of land & sea ✔

Strategic, with performance indicators ✔

Purpose, vision and real challenge ✔


the Severn Partnership - ‘fit for purpose’? A sustainable future for the

Severn?

1. Are you sufficiently robust – to weather the “slings and arrows…”?

2. Is your support infrastructure sufficiently resourced …and supported?

3. Do you have a high political profile?

4. Do you have a hierarchy of strategies and plans?

5. How do you measure effectiveness – cause and effect?

6. Are you sufficiently ambitious – do you have a vision?


Is the Severn Partnership ‘fit for purpose’? A sustainable future for the

Severn? “You cannot solve the problems with the same

system that created the problems in the first place”

Albert Einstein

Partners must be willing to cede powers without ceding sovereignty


Thank you

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