| International
actors and agreements in the region
See
Global action.
UNEP
Regional Seas Programme. ••>
UNEP Global programme of action for the protection of the
marine environment from land-based activities (UNEP GPA).
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Regional
conventions, agreements, action plans, projects, and actors
Action
Plan for the North-West Pacific (NOWPAP) + Regional Coordinating
Unit (RCU).
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Regional Activity Centres (RECs) of NOWPAP: ••>
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Special Monitoring and Coastal Environmental Assessment
Regional Activity Center (CEA/RAC) — see also Northwest
Pacific Region Environment Centre (NPEC);
- Marine
Environmental Emergency Preparedness and Response Regional
Activity Centre (MER/RAC);
- Data
and Information Network Monitoring Regional Activity Center
(DIN/RAC).
UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP). ••>
UNEP Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RRCAP).
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UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(ESCAP). ••>
North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES). ••>
Northwest Pacific Region Environmental Cooperation Center
(NPEC) .
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Eco
Asia
(Environment Congress for Asia and the Pacific). Consists
of high-level government officials (including ministers),
experts from international organizations and private organizations
and environment researchers in the region, "where they
can freely exchange viewpoints in their personal capacities".
The purpose of ECO ASIA is to "promote long-term activities
for environmental protection by governments and relevant organizations
in Asia and the Pacific Region toward the realization of sustainable
development of the Region".
GEF International Waters Projects. ••>
Private
sector and NGOs actors and initiatives
Ocean
Concervancy: International Coastal Cleanup (ICC). ••>
UNEP
and Clean up Australia: Clean up the World! ••>
Pacific
Environment. A U.S.-based international environmental
organization that supports the work of over 80 environmental
NGOs in China, and Russia. Protects the living environment
of the Pacific Rim by "strengthening democracy, supporting
grassroots activism, empowering communities, and redefining
international policies".
Okinawa International
Clean Beach Club
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Regional
reports on the state of the marine and coastal environment
UNEP:
Asia
Pacific Environment Outlook 2. Published periodically
to present the state of environment and its trend in the region.
The report aims to critically review the existing status of
the environment, the driving forces for changes, and the existing
set of policy initiatives undertaken to confront environmental
challenges.
ESCAP: State
of the Environment in Asia and the Pacific 2000.
UNEP
Regional Seas: "The North-West Pacific is among the
most highly populated parts of the world, resulting in enormous
pressures and demands on the environment. Its people are particularly
dependant on the sea for their food and livelihoods. Yet their
health – and the health of their environment – are
under growing threat, mainly from land-based activities and
sources of pollution. Coastal development, industry, transport,
and activities such as land reclamation and intensive mariculture
take an ever-greater toll on coastal ecosystems. Chemical
and industrial wastes, untreated municipal sewage, agricultural
pesticides and nutrients in run-off cause widespread damage
and stimulate eutrophication and harmful algal blooms (red
tides). Added to these are oil pollution from wastewaters
and accidental spills, atmospheric pollution and marine and
coastal litter."
Japan. Ministry of the Environment: Policy: Conservation
of the marine environment.
UNEP
Net: China
State of the Environment Report (1998).
UNEP GPA: North
West Pacific (brief description of environmental state,
priority issues, etc.).
UNEP:
Global
Environment Outlook 3 (GEO3). Coastal and marine areas.
University
of Rhode Island: Large Marine Ecosystems (LME): The region
includes East
China Sea, Yellow
Sea, Kuroshio
Current, Sea
of Japan,
Ohashio Current, and Sea
of Okhotsk.
Other
publications on marine and coastal environment, including
marine litter
Article
in Marine Pollution Bulletin on marine litter/marine
debris in Sea of Japan: 2003.
Japan Environment Quarterly, Sept. 2000, Ministry of Environment,
Japan.: "Preventing
Marine Pollution from Plastics".
National
action
Korean
Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO)
and Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI):
Coastal Engineering Education & Study, Dept. of Ocean
Civil Engineering, Kagoshima University, Japan: Coastal
debris photo database.
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