That's the Pacific Gyre.

In the Pacific, UNEP will renew its cooperation with the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).

I then, in the last few years, learned about the Pacific garbage patch and the gyre.

South Pacific Regional Environment Programme

American Samoa is a member of several regional organizations, including the South Pacific Commission, the Pacific Basin Development Council, the Pacific Tuna Development Foundation, the Pacific Islands Association, the Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education, the Pacific Asia Travel Association, the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme and the Council of Pacific Arts.

South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Samoa

9. South Pacific Regional Environment Programme

EAP AP Environment Assessment Programme Asia and the Pacific

After 20 years, we see emerging the debris accumulation zone of the North Pacific Gyre.

South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Western Samoa.

South East Asia Subregional Preparatory Meeting for the Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific, 2005

South Asia Subregional Preparatory Meeting for the Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific, 2005

And it ended up in the Boise River and then on to the Columbia River and then to the mouth of the Columbia and to the Pacific Ocean and then on to this place called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch which is this giant Pacific gyre in the North Pacific, where a lot of this plastic ends up floating around and then back onto the lagoon.

Environment News Briefing

In 2002, in the central Pacific gyre, there were found to be six kilograms (kg) of plastic for every kilogram of plankton near the surface.

The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme and Secretariat of the Pacific Community have collaborated in putting together and distributing awareness raising materials.

Funding for South Pacific regional environment Programme headquarters

It also participated in regional environmental programmes coordinated by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme.

The UNEP GPA Coordination Office and Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific will serve as the main coordinators of the work of UNEP in the Pacific.

(b) Further development of the North West Pacific Action Plan of the UNEP Regional Seas Programme.

There was another unusual boat out there at the same time, doing as I was doing, bringing awareness to the North Pacific Garbage Patch, that area in the North Pacific about twice the size of Texas, with an estimated 3.5 million tons of trash in it, circulating at the center of that North Pacific Gyre.

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(b) Information management in the North West Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP) directory of coastal and marine experts and institutions bibliography on coastal and marine environments in the region and feasibility report on GIS applications in coastal marine environment for NOWPAP.

UNEP, in partnership with the Government of Mauritius, organized a gala dinner to launch the Atlantic and Indian Oceans Environment Outlook, the Caribbean Environment Outlook and the Pacific Environment Outlook, together with the four reports prepared by the Global International Water Assessment programme for the Indian Ocean islands, Pacific islands, Caribbean islands and the Caribbean sea.

Third session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Conference

PACPOL, partly funded through Canada South Pacific Ocean Development Programme I and II (CSPODP) and IMO, seeks to assist SPREP and SPC member countries in the implementation of IMO Conventions and the components of UNCLOS which relate to marine pollution.

4. The Pacific

The UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific has been advised by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) that an inventory of UNEP group items will be undertaken in August and September 2006 and that the situation in the UNEP Regional Office for Africa is being addressed as part of the UNEP headquarters wide inventory management.

22 Communauté financière du Pacifique franc (CFP fr) 1 euro 119.2 CFP.

Asia and the Pacific (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific)

Waste management is one of the major environmental issues within the Pacific region.

Pacific and Indian Ocean Territories

Pacific Ocean

Antarctic ocean

Pacific Time

One little after island after another.

Greenpeace staff, mostly those based in the Pacific, have been involved in SPREP for a number of years.

Toward a Peaceful Pacific

The Conference discussed, among other things, amendments to formally transfer the secretariat from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) to SPREP.

402. Through the Pacific Ocean Pollution Prevention Programme (PACPOL), SPREP is endeavouring to coordinate regional efforts to address pollution from vessels in 14 countries.

At least two, Atlantic and Pacific.

The Pacific turns deadly, and its fishermen die.

These organizations include the Pacific Island Forum Security Conference, South Pacific Chief of Police Conference, and the Pacific Immigration Directors Conference.

I wasn't just concerned about plastic that you're trying to imagine out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean of which I have learned there are now 11 gyres, potentially, of plastic in five major oceans in the world.