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threatened release requiring emergency action to protect health, natural resources, maritime activities (e.g. port operations) and/or historic sites or tourism appeal. A provision for an annex to the protocol extending the definition of hazardous materials to include substances other than oil is included, and until an annex is created, the protocol can be provisionally applied to non-oil hazardous substances.
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consultation with an advisory committee and are subject to approval of the parties. Exemptions to strict protections may be provided to support traditional activities of local populations if they do not pose substantial risk to the survival or ecological function of protected species or areas. Guidance is made to limit the introduction of
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financing costs of implementing the Action Plan in the Caribbean, which opened in September 1983 after fulfilling promised contributions from various countries. Nevertheless, the CEP cited lack of contributions to the trust fund as an obstacle it faced in 2014, along with a very broad scope of tasks
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The Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife Protocol encourages parties to establish protected areas that conserve ecosystems, natural resources, habitats of endangered, threatened or endemic species and areas of historic, cultural or certain other forms of value. It also provides for the creation of
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Four Regional Activity Centres (RACs) have been established to help implement the Cartagena Convention and protocols, here listed with the protocol implemented and RAC location in parenthesis: the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Information and Training Center for the Wider Caribbean (Oil Spills
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Mechanisms for resolving disputes between parties on issues arising in the course of interpretating and implementing the Cartagena Convention are set forth in Article 23 and in an annex to the text. Parties can denounce the Convention or any of its protocols they have ratified two years after the
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The Oil Spills Protocol provides details on the implementation of Cartagena Convention provisions with respect to hazardous material releases, including making an inventory of emergency response equipment and expertise related to oil spills. Oil spills are defined by the protocol as an actual or
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oil well, became the largest oil spill to that point (476,190 metric tons). Approximately 250 spills, incidents that result in the release of greater than 0.17 metric tons of oil, occur annually in the oil-producing Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea according to estimates published in 2007. Even
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It stipulates that participants who become aware of a pollution emergency should take measures to stem the pollution and notify other states who have the potential to be impacted, as well as international bodies. It calls for international cooperation between participating states in proactively
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and fats, oils and grease in effluent that are less stringent than those for discharges into Class I waters. In neither case should discharges contain visible floatables. It is recommended to parties that treatment plants and effluent outflow points are designed to minimize or entirely avoid
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In addition to inhabitants of the marine environment, the SPAW Protocol can be applied to selected fauna and flora and ecosystems of coasts and coastal watersheds above the freshwater transition point at the discretion of the party with jurisdiction. The annexes are developed and updated in
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in 1974, which works to promote the development of conventions and action plans for protection of 18 designated regional seas, of which the Wider Caribbean is one. The Wider Caribbean Region encompasses the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, the
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Convention or the specific protocol has gone into effect for them, but if they are no longer contracted to any protocol after their denunciation, they will also be considered to have denounced the Cartagena Convention as a whole.
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buffer zones, areas of more limited protection, around the protected areas. Three annexes to the protocol establish lists of endangered and threatened wildlife: Annex I lists endangered and threatened
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out to 200 nautical miles from shore and the states and territories whose coastlines abut them. The Cartagena Convention defines the Atlantic boundaries of its convention area as lying south of
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operations, and lists pollutants of concern. Annex II specifies considerations for source control and management and lists alternative production practices that minimize waste generation.
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The Cartagena Convention was the product of the first Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, held in
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Participating states are also encouraged to define specially protected areas where there are rare or threatened ecosystems or habitat for threatened species. They should conduct
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and Annex III contains flora and fauna that are in need of protection, but that could be able to be utilized on a "rational and sustainable basis" with conservation measures.
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The Land-Based Sources and Activities Protocol calls for parties to take action and cooperate to reduce land-based pollution from their territories. It defines ten priority
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expressed concern that the implementation of the Cartagena Convention had "lost some momentum" due in part to the need for legislation in Caribbean Community (
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Website of the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency, Information and Training Centre – Caribe, a Regional Activity Centre of the Caribbean Environment Program
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Remarks by The Honourable Mr Justice Winston Anderson, Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice on the occasion of The International Seabed Authority Seminar
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by 26 states. It has been amended by three major protocols: the Protocol Concerning Co-operation in Combating Oil Spills in the Wider Caribbean Region (
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The participants typically meet once every two years. Extraordinary meetings may occur if a request for one is supported by a majority of signatories.
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Overview of international, regional, and national legislation to protect coral reefs in the Caribbean UK Overseas Territories
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before undertaking major development projects in coastal areas for effects on marine ecosystems in the convention area.
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and the UNEP collaborated to start preparations for the creation of a regional action plan and establishment of the
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THE ACTION PLAN FOR THE CARIBBEAN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME: EVALUATION OF ITS DEVELOPMENT AND ACHIEVEMENTS (1976-1987)
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Website of The Caribbean Environment Programme and Cartagena Convention Secretariat, UN Environment Programme
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SPAW Protocol annexes as revised 3 June 2019 after the 10th Contracting Parties to the SPAW Protocol meeting
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World Environment Situation Room: Data, Information and Knowledge on the Environment – Cartagena Convention
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plying routes to islands, can contribute to oil pollution through collisions and discharge of contaminated
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In Annex III, the protocol regulates domestic wastewater discharges in the convention area, including
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Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region
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The 1981 Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme (CEP) provided for establishment of a
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regular ship traffic, such as the cargo vessels passing to and from the Caribbean Sea through the
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that they release into the convention area from domestic sewage, and to avoid discharge of toxic
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called The Prevention of Marine Litter in the Caribbean Sea (PROMAR) and projects to restore
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Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (2007).
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Rachelle Mayers (director, editor); Mayers Media Inc. (producer); CEPUNEP (21 June 2022).
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developing pollution event contingency plans and in conducting research and monitoring.
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latitude and within 200 nautical miles of the Atlantic coasts of participating states.
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to support. Current initiatives of the CEP as of 2023 include a project addressing
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International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation
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sources that can affect the convention area and are regulated by the convention.
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An impetus for the subsequent creation of the Cartagena Convention was the major
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Caribbean Environment Programme; United Nations Environment Programme (1989).
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in July 1979. Between the collision itself and the subsequent breakup of the
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List of Protected Areas listed under the SPAW Protocol as of 16 November 2023
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in 1981, following preparatory meetings of government-nominated experts in
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effects on Class I waters. Parties are asked to control the amount of
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categories in its Annex I for targeted mitigation, including from the
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The Cartagena Convention defines ship-based, land-based,
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