The Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction Program (ABNJ) \u2013 often referred to as Common Oceans \u2013 is a broad-scale, innovative approach to achieve efficient and sustainable management of fisheries resources and biodiversity conservation in marine areas that do not fall under the responsibility of any one country.
\nTo achieve this goal, the Program is comprised of four specific areas of work:<\/p>\n
As part of the GEF\/FAO\/GOF project on Strengthening Global Capacity to Effectively Manage Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ Capacity Project<\/a>), the first issue of the ABNJ:LEARN Newsletter is now available<\/a>. This newsletter will share information about the ABNJ Capacity Project and the GEF\/FAO Common Oceans Program<\/a>, as well as facilitate the transfer of knowledge, information, and best practices related to the management of areas beyond national jurisdiction to interested parties at the national, regional, and global levels. [mk_page_section][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″ title=”Learning About Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction”] The Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction Program (ABNJ) \u2013 often referred to as Common Oceans \u2013 is a broad-scale, innovative approach to achieve efficient and sustainable management of fisheries resources and biodiversity conservation in marine areas that do not fall under the responsibility of any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldoceannetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12314\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldoceannetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldoceannetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldoceannetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldoceannetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=12314"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldoceannetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12314\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12502,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldoceannetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12314\/revisions\/12502\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldoceannetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12332\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldoceannetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=12314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldoceannetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=12314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldoceannetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=12314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis newsletter is produced in cooperation with the GEF\u2019s IW:LEARN program, which brings together the experiences and lessons learned from GEF International Waters programs around the world.
\nThe ABNJ Capacity Project is part of the GEF\/FAO Program on Global Sustainable Fisheries Management and Biodiversity Conservation in the Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (Common Oceans Program) initiated by GEF in 2012-2014, led by FAO and partners, with the support of a US$50 million GEF investment and US$220 million in co-financing contributions from many partner organizations.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″]Have a look at the first ABNJ : LEARN News ![\/vc_column_text][mk_circle_image src=”https:\/\/www.worldoceannetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ABNJ-NL-post-de-blog1.jpg” image_diameter=”500″ link=”https:\/\/globaloceanforumdotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/abnj-learn_nwsltr_issue1_0930141.pdf”][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"