Transfer of Marine Technology and Capacity Building: UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission can provide key inputs for new UN agreement on the High Seas (UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Permanent representatives to UN H.E. Marc Pecsteen (Belgium) and H.E. Luke Daunivalu (Fiji) opened the event, highlighting the importance of capacity development and marine technology transfer, in particular for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), in order to ensure an effective and universal participation of States in a new UNCLOS agreement. Both capacity development and marine technology transfer are mainstream themes of UNESCO's IOC, as recognized in UN General Assembly resolutions as well as in the Sustainable Development Goal 14(a). Experts from a host of academic and scientific institutions...