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Japan is on the list of nominees for this year's Future Policy Award. It has been nominated for its Japanese Basic Act on Ocean Policy of 2007.
The Future Policy Award celebrates policies that create better living conditions for current and future generations. It is granted by the World Future Council, an international policy research organization that provides decision makers with effective policy solutions.
Each year the World Future Council chooses one topic on which policy progress is particularly urgent. In 2012, the award is dedicated to exemplary coastal and ocean policies. Thirty-one outstanding policies from 22 countries and regions have been nominated. The nominated polices range from national ocean policies, marine protected area programs and integrated coastal zone management plans to policies regulating fisheries, trade in marine products, marine litter and land-sea interactions.
For this year’s theme, the World Future Council is partnering with the U.N. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with support from the Okeanos Foundation. Ocean experts from international organizations, academia and non-governmental organizations have submitted nominations.
A comprehensive evaluation process is under way and a jury will decide on the winners. The winning policies will be announced at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in September 2012 and celebrated at the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Hyderabad, India in October. Nominations include policies from Australia, the Baltic Region, Belize, Canada, the East Asia Region, Ecuador, the European Union, France / French Overseas Territories, Kenya, Kiribati, Iceland, India, Japan, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, New Zealand, Palau, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa and the United States of America.
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nath
Who funds the "World Future Council"?
And whose future agenda are they promoting?
Ben Jack
Whose future agenda would you like them to promote?
buggerlugs
Haha. This made me laugh so much. What future? An ageing population that has a few radiation infected children and a government so out of touch with reality they only see brown envelopes. The only hope I have is that this is meant to embarrass the higher echelons of society into realising a few home truthes and get the s¥&t together before a total economic collapse happens.... So they have a week :)
warnerbro
You think they've got a chance against the likes of Palau and Kiribati? "It is granted by the World Future Council, an international policy research organization that provides decision makers with effective policy solutions." Well get cracking mates. We need some solutions here.