Regional Seas calendar
HIGHLIGHTS:
Sixth Global Meeting of the Regional
Seas Conventions and Action Plans
The Sixth Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions
and Action Plans was held in Istanbul, Turkey on 30 November
- 2 December 2004. Use the following links to view and download
the meeting documents...
Report of the 6th Global Meeting
of the Regional Seas (Word doc - 131kb)
Regional Seas Strategic Directions
for 2004-2007 (Word doc - 100kb)
Programme of Work of the Regional
Seas (Word doc - 188kb)
List of Participants (Word
doc - 140kb)
UNEP governance: first meeting in Asia
For the first time, the Special Session of UNEP’s
Governing Council (GCSS) and Global Ministerial Environment
Forum (GMEF) was held in Asia – home to approximately
half of the world’s population and with more than
20% of the world’s entire land surface. (29–31
March 2004, Seoul, South Korea) http://www.unep.org/GC/GCSS-VIII/index.asp
CSD gets down to substance
The 12th session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable
Development (CSD), 19–30 April 2004, New York, USA
marked first substantive CSD session since the World Summit
on Sustainable Development in 2002. CSD-12 will incorporate
a variety of events, including a number of innovative meeting
formats.
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd12/csd12.htm
Small island review
In 2002 the UN General Assembly called for a comprehensive
review of the 1994 Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA) for
the Sustainable Development of small island developing States
(SIDS). In August-September of 2004, the International community
conducted a ten-year review of the Programme, and discussed
recommendations for its further implementation. In January
2005, the International community will convene in Mauritius
to discuss recommendations for further and successful implementation
of the BPoA.
http://www.sidsnet.org/main.html
Protecting water, top to bottom
UNEP and the Australian Government Department of the Environment
and Heritage convened a conference on the Global H2O Partnership
on 11–14 May 2004 in Cairns, Australia.
UNEP and its partners launched the Hilltops-2-Oceans (H20)
Initiative as an official Type II Partnership at the 2002
World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The H20
Initiative aims to further the environmental, economic and
social importance of oceans, coasts, and islands, and to
facilitate action by governments to mitigate water pollution
and resource degradation. The Initiative thus contributes
to the objectives of the 1995 Global Programme of Action
for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land–based
Activities (GPA).
Read about the outcomes at http://www.hilltops2oceans.org/conference.html
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