GloFouling Webinar on the Global Industry Alliance (GIA) for Marine Biosafety
World Ocean Council Invites Participation in Webinar Introducing the Newly Launched Global Industry Alliance (GIA) for Marine Biosafety
19 June 2020
The World Ocean Council (WOC) – the lead GloFouling Project Partner for engaging the wider ocean business and investment community – invites interested parties to the webinar on the ground-breaking private sector alliance aiming to improve the management of marine biofouling and reduce its role related to invasive species and greenhouse gas emissions.
The Global Industry Alliance (GIA) for Marine Biosafety is an alliance that brings together committed leaders from maritime, shipping, ocean energy, aquaculture and other ocean-based industries to support two key IMO environmental objectives via improved biofouling management: protect marine biodiversity and decarbonize shipping.
The aim of the maritime champions joining the GIA is to work together with the GEF-UNDP-IMO GloFouling Partnerships to leverage human, technological and financial resources; facilitate industry input into policy development and a positive pull for reform processes; and develop and disseminate technological solutions to improve biofouling management.
The GIA for Marine Biosafety will continue a string of successful initiatives created in previous IMO projects that have set out a lead example and model for public-private partnerships in addressing emerging global marine environmental issues. This experience demonstrates that global environmental problems such as marine bio-invasions will be solved only if the private sector also weighs in with its vast technical resources and expertise. The private sector is, therefore, recognized as an important stakeholder that can play a critical role in addressing marine biosecurity issues, in partnership with IMO and its GloFouling Partnerships Project.
Two webinars have been organized to cater to different time zones:
• 22 June, 9:00 am (BST) with GIA members CleanSubSea and HullWiper
• 2 July, 5:00 pm (BST) with GIA members ECOsubsea and Sonihull
For more information and to register, visit https://www.glofouling.imo.
The World Ocean Council (WOC) is the lead partner for engaging the ocean business and investment community in the 5-year GEF-UNDP-IMO GloFouling Partnerships Project. The WOC will be working with GIA companies and other industry and investment stakeholders to ensure that the collaboration and efforts of the GloFouling Partnerships Project will continue beyond the life of the project.