UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Continental Shelf Delineation

Challenge Entitlement to an extended continental shelf. Submission to the Commision on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS).

Background UN General Assembly Resolution Letter of agreement on feasibility study with Norwegian Ministry of Foreign affairs

UN GA Resolution 57/141 UNEP to establish a system for data and information management to store and handle reserach data from the outer continental margin.

Determination of the outer edge Baseline Sediments Nautical mile( M ) Oceanic crust Crystalline continental crust Foot of slope 60M 1 % of distance to foot of slope

Delineation principles

Objective Serve the needs of developing coastal States and small island developing States, and act on their request regarding the delineation of their continental shelf

Volume of task coastal States Norway >10 mill US$

International Workshop on Continental Shelf Delineation 8 Developing States Awareness raising Data centre for the management of marine geoscientific research data

Implementation phases for States 1.Scanning (preliminary studies) 2.Desktop study 3.Acquisition of supplementary data 4.Interpretation and analysis 5.Compilation and Submission 6.Follow up

Facility Activities ”One stop data shop” Capacity building – Workshops – Hands on training – Online training – Exchange of experience

Facility organisation GRID Network Co-ordinating centre Other organisations Steering Committee

Steering committee UNEP DOALOS Funding agency GRID-Arendal Developing states

Expertise Database Geology/geophysics Juridical Management/marketing Technical assistance

Annual Budget Million US$ Core 1.8 – 1.4 Projects0.2 – 0.7