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for improved monitoring to predict and identify bleaching events to support and
strengthen action during such events and improve strategies to support the natural
resilience of reefs;
118. Encourages States to cooperate, directly or through competent
international bodies, in exchanging information in the event of accidents involving
vessels on coral reefs and in promoting the development of economic assessment
techniques for both restoration and non-use values of coral reef systems;
119. Emphasizes the need to mainstream sustainable coral reef management
and integrated watershed management into national development strategies, as well
as into the activities of relevant United Nations agencies and programmes,
international financial institutions and the donor community;
120. Notes the peer-reviewed scientific studies received by the Division from
Member States, pursuant to paragraph 107 of resolution 61/222, encourages further
studies and consideration of the impacts of ocean noise on marine living resources,
and requests the Division to continue to compile the peer-reviewed scientific studies
it receives from Member States and, as appropriate, to make them, or references and
links to them, available on its website;
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Marine science
121. Calls upon States, individually or in collaboration with each other or
with relevant international organizations and bodies, to improve understanding and
knowledge of the oceans and the deep sea, including, in particular, the extent and
vulnerability of deep sea biodiversity and ecosystems, by increasing their marine
scientific research activities in accordance with the Convention;
122. Notes the contribution of the Census of Marine Life to marine
biodiversity research, and encourages participation in the initiative;
123. Takes note with appreciation of the work of the Advisory Body of
Experts on the Law of the Sea of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
on the development of procedures for the implementation of Parts XIII and XIV of
the Convention and on the development of a consensual text on the legal framework
for the collection of oceanographic data within the context of the Convention;
124. Stresses the importance of increasing the scientific understanding of the
oceans/atmosphere interface, including through participation in ocean observing
programmes and geographic information systems, such as the Global Ocean
Observing System, a programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission, particularly considering their role in monitoring and forecasting
climate change and variability and in the establishment and operation of tsunami
warning systems;
125. Recognizes the significant progress made by the Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission and Member States towards the establishment of
regional tsunami warning and mitigation systems and the new effort to identify
common requirements for regional centres, welcomes the continued collaboration of
the World Meteorological Organization and other United Nations and
intergovernmental organizations in this effort, and encourages Member States to
establish and sustain their national warning and mitigation systems, within a global,
ocean-related multi-hazard approach, as necessary, to reduce loss of life and damage
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