Blue Justice

Conference 2020

Blue Justice
Conference 2020

Events

Fostering Cooperation towards a Fair Blue Economy Free from Fisheries Crime

An international digital conference held from 10-11 December 2020

The opening High Level Event event was livestreamed from studios in Oslo, Vienna and CPH and around the world.  In following days partner organizations hosted several expert webinars highlighting different current topics related to addressing fisheries crime, targeting government representatives, academia, and civil society.

Watch the livestream

The aim of the conference was to:

1.

Continue the momentum

of those states that support the “International Declaration against Transnational Organized Crime in the Global Fishing Industry” (Copenhagen Declaration)

2.

Encourage new states

into the group of countries supporting the Copenhagen Declaration

3.

Encourage operationalization of the Declaration 

through capacity building initiatives under the Blue Justice Initiative

Webinars

Following the High Level conference event, expert webinars highlighted different current topics related to addressing fisheries crime, targeting government representatives, academia and civil society.

Webinar 1 – What are key governance and associated gender challenges to tackling organized crime in the fisheries sector?

UNDP’s Blue Resilience project shares key research findings on how governance and gender issues can act as bottlenecks to tackling fisheries crime. A particular focus is on institutional cooperation, different cooperation models that the research has identified and their success factors.

Webinar 2- Challenges and opportunities associated with addressing economic crime in the fisheries sector with reference to the NA-FIG model

NA-FIG as a tool for a more holistic approach to address fisheries crime, with reference to the Canadian example, and Covid-19 impact on the fisheries sector in the North Atlantic.

Webinar 3 – Tackling Fisheries Crime: UNODC Field Stories

The webinar will focus on the UNODC approach to fisheries crime and examples of technical assistance to support Member States to tackle fisheries crime.