pdf IP028: Anthropogenic Noise in the Southern Ocean

ATCM XLI and CEP XXI 2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Information Paper

IP028: Anthropogenic Noise in the Southern Ocean: an Update

Submitted: 09 April 2018

Summary:

This paper reports progress in the 2017-18 intersessional period in developing an update for the CEP on anthropogenic noise impacts on Antarctic marine wildlife. A comprehensive literature review has been completed, an expert panel convened and consulted, and input from a variety of sources considered. These inputs have been combined in a draft Background Paper that will continue to be revised and refined until final submission to ATCM XLII – CEP XXII in 2019.

ATCM - Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
CEP - Committee for Environmental Protection
41st Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
13 - 18 May 2018