In this video you learn more about the high seas - our common oceans. The video was produced by Nausicaá Centre National de la Mer and Agence Francaise per la Biodiversité with support provided by the Common Oceans ABNJ Capacity Project, and incorporates footage from the first ever International Conference on the High Seas organized by the Nausicaá Aquarium in Bolougne-sur Mer in June 2018.

Overview of two side events organized by the Common Oceans ABNJ Program along with partners and key speakers of the Deep Sea Project, as part of the first Session of the Intergovernmental Conference on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ), at UNHQ in September 2018. 

Side events organized by the Common Oceans ABNJ Program along with partners and key speakers during the Intergovernmental Conference on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ), at UNHQ in September 2018. 

The Global sustainable fisheries management and biodiversity conservation in the ABNJ Program (Common Oceans ABNJ Program), supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is a five-year Program that started its activities in early 2014. With the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as coordinating agency, the Common Oceans ABNJ Program is working in close collaboration with two other GEF implementing agencies, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Bank, as well as other executing partners, including Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs), national governments, the private sector, and NGOs. This brochure introduces the for Projects that make up the Common Oceans ABNJ Program, and that are working together to achieve efficient and sustainable management of fisheries resources and biodiversity conservation in the ABNJ, and to achieve global targets agreed in the international fora.

Lambert Wilson, acteur, metteur en scène et activiste français qui a incarné Capitaine Jacques-Yves Cousteau dans le film L’Odyssée, nous partage un message sur la haute mer - les zones marines au-delà des juridictions nationales - et explique pourquoi ces zones sont importantes. Aujourd'hui, et pour les générations futures.