Host/Venue: Vietnam Maritime University
Focal Point: Vietnam Association of Marine Environment and Nature (VAMEN)
International Partner: Pacific Environment, San Francisco, USA
This two-day workshop will convene stakeholders (academics, government officials, civil society) for environmentally clean and safe shipping from around the Pacific Rim. Attendees will share information on best practices and developments in their respective regions, with particular focus on Asia and the Arctic, two regions that must prepare for significant increases in commercial shipping in coming years.
The overall goal of the workshop is to build momentum toward implementing ‘’blue shipping’’ practices by developing a common understanding of the threats posed by shipping, priorities for action, and next steps for collaborative action.
Particular topics to be covered during the workshop include:
- Emission control regulations for shipping to limit air and water pollution in coastal waters and port cities
- The use of shipping protected areas to prevent damage to corals and collisions with marine mammals and turtles
- 'Choke points’ of oil spill risk and developing safe routing measures
- Relevant global trends in trade and shipping, e.g. Panamax
- Creating a pan-Pacific NGO coalition to campaign for clean shipping
- Environmental challenges of local shipping (short afternoon field trip to Nam Dinh Vu Port).
Expected outputs
- Information about environmentally-responsible shipping is shared among all participants,
- An action plan for a Pan-Pacific ‘blue shipping’ coalition is developed with inputs from governments and concerned NGOs.
Participants
50 participants who are government, academics, regulators, civil society from:
International: Russia, US, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka
Viet Nam: relevant national Ministries, Marine Protected Areas, research institutions, NGOs, IMO, Port Authorities, city government, Northern Center for Oil Spill Response, and the local media.
Organizers:
- Host/Venue: Vietnam Maritime University (VMU)
- Focal Point: Vietnam Association of Marine Environment and Nature (VAMEN)
- International Partner: Pacific Environment (PE), San Francisco, USA
Vietnam Maritime University (VMU) was established on April 1, 1956, operating initially as a vocational school. VMU has been assigned the task of educating and training the maritime experts and scientists who provide for the nation’s ‘blue’ economy. With a rich history of 60 years, the University has made important contributions to the transportation industry, national economy, and defense. Amidst current, rapid social – economic development of the country and need for national security, the University has set itself a target of “being a regional and national center of scientific research and technical transfer for successfully implementing the national sea strategy”.
Vietnam Association of Marine Environment and Nature (VAMEN) is a non-profit member of the Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment (VACNE) established in 1996. Its main function is to provide consultation and social input rgarding conservation, protection, and management of the marine environment and resources in Vietnam. VAMEN is also the focal point for the ‘Environmental and Maritime Security for a Blue South China Sea’ (in Vietnamese: Bien Dong Sea) event series which is being held in Vietnam’s Haiphong city.
Pacific Environment (PE) is a San Francisco-based environmental non-profit that has been working since 1987 with grassroots partners around the Pacific Rim to advocate for safe environments and sustainable economies. PE has consultative observer status within the International Maritime Organization (IMO), where it recently campaigned successfully for new environmental and safety regulations for Arctic shipping (the Polar Code, which entered into effect on January 1, 2017).
Date: April 17th –18th, 2017
Venue: Vietnam Maritime University
Viet Nam Maritime University 484 Lach Tray - Ngo Quyen - Hai Phong, TEL: (+84)31 3829 109 E-mail: info@vimaru.edu.vn
Tentative Agenda
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April 16 |
Participants arrive to Hai Phong |
Check-in Hotel |
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April 17: Welcome |
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8:00 |
Registration |
VMU |
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8:30 |
Welcome address |
Haiphong’s People Committee, VMU |
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8:40 |
Organizers’ remarks, introductions |
Mr. Nguyen Chu Hoi, VAMEN |
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8:50 |
Overview of the Workshop Objectives and expected outputs |
VAMEN, PE |
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April 17, morning session: How does the shipping industry impact the environment, and what is the future vision for environmentally-responsible shipping? International perspectives. |
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9:00 – 10:10: 1) Plenary: International viewpoints on environmentally-responsible shipping: how does shipping currently impact various geographies in the Pacific, and what trends are expected for the future? Facilitated by: Nicole Portley Perspectives from the Russian Arctic, Alaskan Arctic, China, and Southeast Asia. In this session, speakers will review the impacts of shipping in their respective regions and what trends are expected for the future: |
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9:00 – 9:15 |
Pacific Blue Shipping: A vision for an environmentally-pesponsible future for the northern and southern shipping routes |
Alexey Grigoriyev, Russian Socio-Ecological Union and Alexey Knizhnikov, WWF Russia |
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9:15 – 9:30 |
The Alaskan Arctic's path to shipping sustainably: the Polar Code and beyond |
Kevin Harun, Pacific Environment |
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9:30 – 9:45 |
The environmental impacts of and future vision for shipping in China |
Freda Fung, National Research Defense Council Hong Kong |
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9:45 – 10:00 |
The environmental impacts of and future vision for shipping in Vietnam |
Mr. Do Duc Tien, Vietnam Maritime Authority |
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10:00 – 10:15 |
The environmental impacts of and future vision for shipping in the Southeast Asia region |
Cheryl Rita Kaur, Maritime Institute of Malaysia |
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10:15 – 10:40 |
Q&A panel of plenary speakers |
All participants |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
Coffee break/ Group Photo |
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11:00 - 12:00: 2) Work in groups on specific impact types Facilitated by Kevin Harun & Alexey Knizhnikov 2-1 Coastal pollution from shipping and ports 2-2 Shipping impacts to high-value marine biodiversity Building upon the plenary presentations, this working group session will broaden the discussion of how shipping is impacting different localities. Participants, particularly those who are not presenting to plenary, are encouraged to make short presentations within their working groups: identifying key geographies to protect from impacts, quantifying impacts to the extent possible, acknowledging what other threats are overlapping, and pointing out knowledge gaps that need to be filled. |
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12:00 – 12:30 |
Groups report back to plenary
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15 minutes each, summarizing details of presentations and discussions |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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April 17, afternoon session: How can regions successfully mitigate the environmental impacts of shipping? |
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13:30 – 15:00: 3) Plenary: Tools for achieving a ‘blue’ shipping industry: What actions have been taken at regional scales?Facilitated by Bui Thi Thu Hien In this session, speakers will provide insights into mitigation strategies that they have been directly involved in implementing. |
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Regulations |
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13:30 – 13:40 |
Emission Control Zones in China |
Freda Fung, NRDC Hong Kong |
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13:40 – 13:50 |
IMO Region-Specific Regulations: the Polar Code |
Kevin Harun, Pacific Environment |
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13:50 – 14:00 |
Prevention of pollution from ships through the establishment of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas (PSSAs) within the South-East Asia region: Vietnam |
Pham Xuan Duong, Pham Thi Duong, Vietnam Maritime University |
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Best Practices |
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14:00 -14:10 |
Marine Mammal Avoidance in the Arctic |
Nicole Portley, Pacific Environment |
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14:10 -14:20 |
Vietnam’s MPA network |
Bui Thi Thu Hien, IUCN Viet Nam |
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14:20 -14:30 |
The Philippines’ MPA Network |
Jimely Flores, Oceana Philippines |
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14:30 – 14:50 |
Coffee Break |
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Civil Society Campaigns NGOs |
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14:50 – 15:00 |
The coal campaign in Russia: coal terminals on Primoriya’s coast
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Vladimir Slivyak, Ecodefense (Russia) |
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15:00 – 15:10 |
Environmentally-responsible shipping and the oil and gas industry
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Alexey Grigoriyev, Russian Socio-Ecological Union and Alexey Knizhnikov, WWF Russia |
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15:10 – 15:20 |
Ensuring that new port investments are environmentally-responsible: lessons from Sri Lanka |
Ravindranath Dabare, Centre for Environmental Justice Sri Lanka |
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15:20 – 15:30 |
Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas – Research Proposal for Vietnam Sea |
Mr. Du Van Toan, Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands |
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15:30 – 15:40 |
SOURCE OF POLLUTION FROM SHIP IN HAIPHONG SEAPORT |
Mr. Bui Van Minh, Hai Phong Port Authority |
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15:40 – 15:50 |
Q&A |
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15:50 – 16:30: 4) Working groups: Prioritization The morning working groups reconvene to develop Top 3 priorities for solutions (i.e., geography-problem-solution) to be implemented in Southeast Asia in response to their particular threat Facilitated by Nicole Portley |
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16:30 – 17:00 |
Working groups report Top 3 priorities back to plenary |
10 minutes each.
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17:00: 5) Discussion of Draft workshop declaration as a common platform highlighting concern about shipping’s impacts in the Pacific Rim and a commitment to use the tools reviewed at the meeting going forward to address the threats in the priority geography. Facilitated by: Nguyen Chu Hoi, VMU |
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17:30 |
Adjournment |
Nicole Portley |
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April 18: Finalizing the Declaration, NGO session, field trip |
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8:30 – 10:15: Plenary: Adoption of the workshop declaration and further discussion of next steps (open discussion) Facilitated by: Bui Thi Thu Hien & Kevin Harun |
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10:15 – 10:30 |
Break |
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10:30 – 12:00: |
NGOs representatives gather to discuss: - Creating a pan-Pacific NGO coalition to campaign for clean shipping - Developing an Action Plan for Southeast Asia shipping |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:30 – 16:00 |
Adjourn and departure for field trip to Nam Dinh Vu Sea Port |
Check out Hotel/ VMU
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16:30 |
Depart to Hanoi |
All participants |