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The following organizations are UNEP's principle global and regional
partners in joint activities relating to the marine environment.
UN Specialized Agencies
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO)
International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA)
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
(IOC) of UNESCO
United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)
World Health Organization (WHO)
UN Organizations
(links to the UN, UNEP and Earthwatch websites)
United Nations Department of Economic
and Social Affairs (UN DESA),
– United Nations Division for
Sustainable Development (UNDSD);
– Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
– Commission on
Sustainable Development (CSD)
United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa (UNECA)
United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe (UN ECE)
United Nations Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC)
United Nations Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP)
United Nations Economic
and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA)
United Nations Industrial
Development Organization (UNIDO)
World Bank
World Meteorological Organization
(WMO)
UNEP divisions
-- Biodiversity
-- Chemicals
(IRPTC)
-- Global International
Waters Assessment (GIWA)
-- Regional Office for Asia
and the Pacific (UNEP/ROAP)
-- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring
Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
Other international organizations (not UN)
Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
International Council for the Exploration of
the Sea (ICES)
International Council of Science (ICSU)
IUCN – The World Conservation Union
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Inter-agency and cooperative programmes
The Global Investigation of Pollution in the
Marine Environment (GIPME)
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch
Global Coral
Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN)
Global Programme of Action for the
Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities
(GPA)
Global Observing Systems:
– Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
– Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
– Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS)
Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects
of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP)
Integrated Global Observing
Strategy (IGOS)
Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC)
International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI)
Global Conventions with particular relevance
to Regional Seas
Basel Convention on the Control
of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes
Convention on Biological Diversity
Convention on the Conservation
of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)
Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species (CITES)
Convention for the
Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping (IMO) and other marine
pollution conventions
United Nations Convention
on the Law of the Sea (LOS)
United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Partner conventions
–Arctic (PAME website)
–Baltic (HELCOM website)
–North-East Atlantic (OSPAR website)
Visit the Joint web site
of the Biodiversity-related Conventions
See also the list of partners in UN System-Wide Earthwatch.
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