PAME meaning in General ?

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What is Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment mean?

The Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment Working Group (PAME) is one of six working groups encompassed by The Arctic Council. Founded as part of the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy, it assimilated into the structure of the Council following the signing of the 1996 Ottawa Declaration by the 8 Arctic States. The group compiles representatives from each state, (Canada, Denmark (representing both Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States) as well as its Permanent Participants (The Aleut International Association, The Arctic Athabaskan Council, The Gwich'in Council International, The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), The Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), and the Saami Council) representing the region's indigenous populations, and a number of observers. The Working Group claims to operate across the domains of Arctic shipping, maritime pollution, marine protected areas, ecosystem approaches to management, resource exploitation and development, and associations with the marine environment. Where necessary, it is tasked with producing guidelines and recommendations for policy improvement, with projects approved every two years by the council. The Secretariat for PAME is located in Akureyri, Iceland.

The overarching objectives for PAME were formally outlined in the 2009 meeting held in Oslo, Norway. These objectives are:

To improve knowledge and respond to emerging knowledge of the Arctic Marine Environment.To determine the adequacy of applicable international/regional commitments and promote their implementation and compliance.To facilitate partnerships, programme and technical cooperation and support communication, reporting and outreach both within and outside the Arctic Council. reference

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