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This background note reviews current trends and projections of fish and seafood trade, and recent work undertaken to support implementation of the trade related activities of...

The present document aims at providing, for the benefits of the negotiation during the intergovernmental conference, practical information on how the selected regional seas...

The document has been prepared in response to the decision of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans made at the 18th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and...

This document contains basic information on practically all projects supported by UNEP which were, or are, related to the protection of the oceans and coastal areas and the...

This report, the fourth biennial review of THE GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM, is based on the current scientific understanding of the climate system and provide.s a basis for the...

The report identifies that countries have made considerable progress in developing and implementing appropriate policy responses at national, regional and international levels....

UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (2019) calls on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable...

This publication contains 16 technical annexes which were used in preparing the report on the state of the marine environment.

During 1974, United Nations Conferences were held on several issues which have been the subject of increasing concern by the world community in recent years: Population, Food,...

The objective of this report is to provide and share information on the status of Ocean Remote Sensing in the NOWPAP Region, and to address issues to be tackled through...

The purpose of this report is to give a broad global perspective on the situation, providing regional and sometimes national examples. The report provides an overview of the...

The Working Group I report focuses on those aspects of the current understanding of the physical science of climate change that are judged to be most relevant to policymakers....

Recent discussion of biodiversity loss has focused on its expected ecological consequences, as well as on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, and economic effects this loss...

The aim of this document is to help improve the condition of the world's people, by defining two requirements. One is to secure a widespread and deeply-held commitment to a new...

This study shows that fishers possess the knowledge to modify theirfishing gear and methods to maximize shark catch. Sharks areparticularly vulnerable to overexploitation and...

Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the...

The principal purpose of this report is to provide recommendations, advice and practical guidance, for establishing programmes to monitor and assess the distribution and...

The main theme of the Congress, Natural Resources of the Pacific Ocean for the Benefit of Mankind, demonstrates an enormous interest in the Pacific region which is in many...

The series, entitled Exchange of Environmental Experience, grew out of a recognition that a great deal of valuable experience on the environment was being shared through the...

The publication of this volume on Particle Flux in the Ocean brings to a close a phase of the Global Carbon Cycle project which has concentrated on under-standing the flow,...