Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
A Sea of Success for Islands: Highlighting Plastic Waste and Pollution Solutions
Wednesday, November 13, 7 am US EST/Noon UTC/1 pm CET [***Webinar will last 1.5 hours***] Presenters: IUCN plastics experts and guest speakers from islands addressing plastic waste. Description: This webinar will focus on island-specific plastic pollution solutions, including tools for understanding plastic waste solutions, economic angles of plastic pollution, case studies, and solutions platforms to generate knowledge exchange for more effective mitigation and prevention of plastic waste and pollution. Just a few of the tools and resources to be covered include the Blueprint to Zero Plastic Waste – a guide to reducing plastic waste on islands – and findings of studies estimating the impacts of marine plastics on the fisheries and tourism sectors and the costs and benefits of implementing a solution (e.g., a national recycling system, with and without regional cooperation) to reduce mismanaged plastic waste and its leakage into the marine environment. Case studies will provide information on what has worked and not worked on islands, including the sustainability of projects.
Assessing the sustainability of coastal tourism: Tools and lessons learned
Thursday, December 12, 9 am US EST/6 am US PST/2 pm UTC/3 pm CET/4 pm EET. Presented by: Ioannis Pappas of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council. Description: The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) establishes and manages global standards for sustainable travel and tourism, known as the GSTC Criteria. The GSTC’s Destination Criteria for public policymakers and destination managers provide basic guidelines for destinations that wish to become more sustainable and offer governments, NGOs, and the private sector a starting point for developing sustainable tourism requirements. This webinar will present the GSTC’s resources for assessing the sustainability of coastal tourism and takeaways from destination assessments in coastal areas, including Heraklion, Corfu, Athens, Dubrovnik, and Kotor.
Past Webinars
Financing Coral Reef Conservation and Management: Conservation Trust Funds and Impact Investing
This webinar originally aired on 2 October, 2019. Description: Coral reefs provide enormous economic value to humanity and are gaining increasing attention from donors, philanthropists,…
We’ve Got Chemistry! Leveraging Partnerships and the Ocean Acidification Information Exchange to Advance Ocean Acidification and MPA Science
This webinar originally aired on 25 September, 2019. Marine protected areas (MPAs), sanctuaries, and reserves offer refuge to a wide variety of marine species, but…
Guidelines for Valuing Coastal Protection Services from Mangroves and Reefs
This webinar originally aired on 17 September, 2019. This webinar will provide an overview of new research on how natural defenses can reduce coastal risk….
Designing and Managing MPAs for Sharks and Rays
This webinar originally aired on 4 September, 2019. Overfishing is a major threat to the world’s 1,200+ species of sharks and rays, and many elasmobranch…
Sargassum Watch from Space
This webinar originally aired on 27 August, 2019 The Sargassum Watch System (SaWS) uses satellite data and numerical models to detect and track pelagic Sargassum…
New technologies to revolutionize sustainable fishing in the digital age: EDF’s Smart Boat Initiative
This webinar originally aired on 22 August, 2019. Pioneering technologies and new platforms can turn fishing vessels into “smart boats” and redefine fishing and how…
Management and evolution give hope to coral reefs facing the effects of climate change
This webinar originally aired on 1 August, 2019. A new study just published in Nature Climate Change shows that management that takes evolution and adaptation…
Financing Coral Reef Conservation and Management with Tourism-Related Tools
This webinar originally aired on 17 July, 2019. Coral reefs provide enormous economic value to humanity, and their value for recreation is one of the…
Conservation targets and how much of the world do we need to protect?
This webinar originally aired on 11 July, 2019. What should global conservation targets be beyond 2020? The Beyond the Aichi Targets Task Force, appointed by…
A Toolkit for Managing Cultural Resources in Marine Protected Areas
This webinar originally aired on 2 July, 2019. What are cultural resources anyway? Often MPA managers are experts in natural resources management, and lack background…