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Durante los ultimos veinte años se ha hecho más patente la toma de conciencia publica frente al aumento constante en los niveles de contaminación de las areas marinas y costeras...

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea contains the global framework necessary for the protection and preservation of the marine environment and the development of...

The scope of this study is pollution from marine plastic in Southeast Asia and East Asia, with a focus on the 13 member states of ASEAN+3: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia,...

Publié 30 ans après la conference de Stockholm de 1972, le Vital Water Graphics, en partie repris dans cet Atlas mondial de l'eau, représente un apport essentiel qui corn plète...

The purpose of the report is to document and assess the current state of the marine en-vironment, and to identify the major global concerns and priorities for action in both the...

The oceans are under stress from growing coastal populations, rapid industrialization and over-consumption of resources. Many people in the coastal zone depend on its waters for...

The following is an outline of the progress made in the 10 years since Montevideo towards achieving the objectives and strategies laid down by the meeting of Experts, in respect...

This report describes the results of work performed under the abovementioned activity in 2017 and during biennium of 2018-2019, and follows findings indicated in previous POMRAC...

Implementation of the East Asian Seas Action Plan is guided by strategies adopted by the COBSEA Intergovernmental Meeting2. The COBSEA Strategic Directions 2018-2022 were...

This publication contains the texts of the two legal agreements that have been adopted for the protection and development of the marine environment and coastal areas of the...

The purpose of this report is to consider what scientific principles are involved in the selection of dumping sites at sea, and how effects of ocean waste disposal can be...

Special Intergovernmental Session of the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA) on the East Asian Seas Action Plan. Putrajaya, Malaysia, 5-6 September 2007

The State of Ocean Governance in the Western Indian Ocean Region, developed in partnership with the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association, reviews the status and...

Marine habitats worldwide are contaminated with man-made debris. Plastic items consistently represent the major categories of marine debris by material type on a global basis....

This assessment is an important and innovative development for assessing the status of the Mediterranean ecosystem and the achievement of Good Environmental Status (GES)....

The objective of NOWPAP is to protect the regional marine environment under international cooperation between the four member states. NOWPAP initiated marine litter (ML)...

This training aims to support the establishment of monitoring programmes to address the need for quality data and effective monitoring of land and sea based sources, quantities,...

The ‘Washed-Ashore Articles Disposal Promotion Act’* was enacted in July 2009 and includes measures necessary to promote smooth disposal of marine litter and reduction of marine...

This report takes stock of the extent of knowledge on plastics in the marine environment.1 It provides a highlevel summary of the available literature on the key sources and...

This report provides a comprehensive global mapping of plastic losses to the environment throughout the plastic value chain using 2015 as the reference year. This mapping covers...