The event explored in some details the potential role of the BBNJ agreement to function as a cooperation and coordination framework with and among other IFBs. After an introduction reviewing some of the relevant provisions across the treaty text, outlining the potential for the BBNJ agreement to foster effective ecosystem governance of marine biodiversity in ABNJ, subsequent presentations focused more specifically on some regional fisheries management organisations and regional seas, and namely NEAFC, OSPAR and the Collective Arrangement, CAOFA and CCAMLR
