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Permanent Commission for the South Pacific - CPPS

Contributing to ensure a healthy and resilient maritime Space in the Southeast Pacific for present and future generations .

Permanent Commission for the South Pacific - CPPS

• Created in 1952 though the

Santiago Declaration

• Coordinate maritime policies of

member States : CHILE, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR and PERÚ

• Institution specialized in maritime

issues

• Is the Executive Secretary of the

Southeast Pacific Action Plan, of which Panama is also Party

Contributing to ensure a healthy and resilient maritime Space in the Southeast Pacific for present and future generations .

Vision

To be a maritime system and an effective strategic alliance in the coordination of maritime policies of Member States, to ensure a healthy and resilient maritime space for present and future generations in the Southeast Pacific

Strategic objetives

Competitive States in the international concert Science as a support for policy making States and society as vectors of change An informed and environmentally aware society

The Galapagos Commitement (2012)

• The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Member

Countries reaffirmed the Organization’s commitment to regional cooperation in view of the new common challenges of the XXI century.

• CPPS will support Member Countries to achieve in

an integral perspective their sustainable development, taking into account, among others, the ecosystems approach, the precautionary principle and the international instruments aimed at the protection of seas and oceans, respecting national policies and mechanisms in effect in each

• country. This orientation applied in the areas of

sovereignty and jurisdiction of Member States of the CPPS, will also guide its projection beyond that zone, including the Pacific basin.

Regional priorities

Marine Science

• Ecosystem approach (food

security and poverty alleviation)

• Variability and climate

change

• Regional oceanography
• Risks mitigation (natural

phenomena)

• Management of living

resources (fishing, aquaculture, including economic and social aspects)

Legal/Policy

• The conservation and

sustainable use of biological diversity within the framework of the United Nations

• Prospecting, exploration

and exploitation of the mineral resources of the zone under the International Seabed Authority (ISA)

• Following BBNJ process

Environmet

• Pollution (land-based

sources, marine litter)

• Biodiversity (lost of

biodiversity, MPA, Aichi Targets)

• Ecosystems services

(mangroves)

• Integrated coastal

mangement/ marine spatial planning

• Data management

Collaboration CPPS with IOC- UNESCO/FUST

• SPINCAM project (2008-2022) (ICAM/MSP)
• Ocean Teacher Global Academy (OTGA) (capacity

building)

• CPPS is an OBIS node (compiling biodiversity

datasets)

• GOOS/GRASP ( Global Ocean Observing System )

Coordination body and technical secretariat

• Supporting the IOC-UNESCO initiative “Decade of

Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) ”

• Contact. mvillagomez@cpps-int.org

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