Sustainable Oceans Lab Webinar Series
Within the framework of the Sustainable Oceans Lab the Lab Team is organizing a webinar series to provide an opportunity for deepening technical discussions amongst members and to learn about each other´s experiences from different sectors and regions. The online seminars are based on input talks 
giving by Lab Team members, and followed by discussions amongst the audience.
The series started on June 10th with a talk of Alison Undorf-Lay from New Zealand. Alison is Sanford Limited senior executive and in her position, she works along the company’s fishing, farming and processing divisions on policy, regulatory, law reform and social licensing. During her presentation (“An exchange of confidence – using your sustainability audit to strengthen social license”) see shed a light on the philosophy of sustainability, on how to create trust within a large fishing company and with its stakeholders and the public, and how to improve business through advancing sustainability.
On June 17th David Freestone, Executive Secretary of the Sargasso Sea Commission, gave a presentation on “Problems of High Seas Governance”. David explained the challenges that the legal framework and responsible bodies for high seas governance are facing. He touched topics like law enforcement, overlapping authorities and a potential new treaty on Biodiversity of the High Seas in the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
The next webinar will be offered in September after the second meeting of the Lab Team that will be held in Mexico (August 2015). The presentation is about “Responsibly operating in sensitive areas: an oil and gas industry approach”, and will be given by Wouter Drinkwaard, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Service Advisor, Shell.
