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United Nations Passes Resolution On
Ocean Noise
November 29, 2005
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Since the Spring
of 2005, AWI has been involved in a campaign to secure United Nations
acknowledgement and action on the problem of ocean noise. These
efforts were rewarded on November 29, 2005 when the United Nations
passed its Resolution on Oceans and the Law of the Sea.
The resolution includes, for the first time, a
reference to ocean noise. Specifically,
paragraph 84 of the Resolution:
"encourages further studies and consideration of the impacts of ocean
noise on marine living resources."
The paragraph is
included in the section entitled "Marine environment, marine
resources, marine biodiversity and the protection of vulnerable marine
ecosystems."
This means that
ocean noise is considered under the management of the oceans section,
rather than in the marine science section.
This is a significant accomplishment and the groundwork for further
work to advance the issue still further through the United Nations and
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