Seminar 20. juni 2016: Bærekraftsmålene og fragmentert miljølovgivning – marine perspektiver
The effects of fragmented environmental law on sustainable development – Marine perspectives
Date: Monday June 20th 2016
Location: Oslo Science Park, Gaustadalléen 21, 0349 Oslo
Fragmented environmental legislation, vertical and horizontal inconsistencies, and a weak rule of law highly affect our pathway towards a sustainable development of our marine resources and environment. This concern has been raised globally in the process towards the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and some solutions proposed in SDG 14 – Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources. On the EU level the Marine Strategy Framework Directive is an attempt to ensure larger consistency in environmental law for European seas, building upon the parallel EU Water Framework Directive. Yet for a number of sectors, such as aquaculture, fragmented law and governance still pose considerable challenges.
This side event of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium 2016, organized as a seminar, will gather experts to discuss the effects of fragmented environmental law, to share experiences from different areas of marine and coastal environmental and natural resources law and from selected European countries, and to discuss potential avenues to tackle identified challenges. The seminar is organized in conjunction with the release of a book published by Routledge in May 2016, entitled ‘Environmental Law and the Ecosystem Approach: Maintaining Ecological Integrity through Consistency in Law’ by Froukje M Platjouw, alumni of Univ. of Oslo, currently at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA).
The seminar is co-funded by the Norwegian National Comission for UNESCO and the EU H2020 TAPAS Project.
The seminar is free of charge and open to the public. Please register here by 13 June
Contact person: Froukje Maria Platjouw, fmp (@) niva.no, 0047 98294116
Programme
Chair: Sindre Langaas,
Research Manager, Section for Water and Society, NIVA
9.00-9.30 Registration, coffee/tea
9.30-9.40 Welcome
Greta Bentzen, Managing Director, NIVA
9.40-9.50 UNESCO and marine environmental law
Torill Engen Skaugen, The Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO
9.50-10.15 Key Norwegian laws regulating marine conservation and use
Lars Andreas Lunde, State Secretary, Ministry of Climate and the Environment
10.15-10.45 Keynote on the effects of fragmented legislation on the aquaculture sector
Dave Jackson, Inspector of Fisheries, Marine Institute, Ireland
10.40-11.10 The Norwegian administrative system in aquaculture – Challenges due to fragmented management
Ingunn Elise Myklebust, Professor of Law, University of Bergen
11.10-11.30 Break
11.30-12.00 Environmental law and the ecosystem approach – Maintaining ecological integrity through consistency in law
Froukje Maria Platjouw, Research scientist, NIVA
12.00-12.30 The Swedish Environmental Code – Designed for consistency and coherence
Lena Gipperth, Professor of law, University of Gothenburg
12.30-13.00 Panel discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch