Coastal and marine resources

Marine and coastal living resources

Oceans and Coastal Areas Network (UN Oceans)

(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.

COMEMIS Coastal and Marine Environment Management Information System

This claim is the deferred portion of claim No. 5000259 relating to remediation of coastal mudflats.

A. Marine and coastal biological diversity

1. Marine and coastal biodiversity

Its coasts extend along the Pacific Ocean.

10. The programme identifies important operational objectives and priority activities within the framework of five key programme elements integrated marine and coastal area management (IMCAM) marine and coastal living resources marine and coastal protected areas mariculture and alien species.

F. Integrated ocean and coastal zone management

As long as the input of non degradable litter into the marine environment continues, the result will be increased quantities of marine litter in the coastal and marine environments.

(h) Assessment of the consequences of mariculture for marine and coastal biological diversity

It also looked at integrated coastal area and river basin management, which links freshwater and coastal and marine systems, highlighting land based sources of activities affecting the quality and uses of the coastal and marine environment.

Considering the very slow rate of degradation of most marine litter items, a continuous input of large quantities of marine litter will result in a gradual increase of litter in the coastal and marine environment.

This means that, in fact, the majority of marine waste comes from coastal areas.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea recognizes the responsibility of coastal States for the sustainable management of living resources in their maritime zones.

Marine scientific research can lead to a better understanding and utilization of the ocean and its resources in almost all aspects, including fisheries, marine pollution and coastal zone management.

107. Encourages continued updates to Member States by UN Oceans regarding its priorities and initiatives, in particular with respect to the proposed participation in UN Oceans

127. Encourages continued updates to Member States by UN Oceans regarding its priorities and initiatives, in particular with respect to the proposed participation in UN Oceans

(a) Review of instruments relevant to IMCAM

Coastal Marine Ecosystem Management in the Caribbean

Other threats to the marine and coastal ecosystems from marine litter include smothering of the seabed and disturbance of habitats from mechanical beach cleaning.

(f) Pilot research and monitoring projects on the value and the effects of marine and coastal protected areas (MCPAs) or similarly restricted management areas on sustainable use of marine and coastal living resources

The implementation of cooperation plans to protect the Mediterranean environment, both coastal and marine, is therefore a priority.

(e) Development of the knowledge base on the use of marine and coastal genetic resources

Saudi Arabia explains that it will not be able to adequately manage its existing protected areas with its own funds.

Under the item coordination and cooperation, a report was provided by the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Coordinator of UN Oceans, outlining progress to date on the establishment and the work of UN Oceans.

Marine debris, also referred to as marine litter, is any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment.

Ocean governance must be based on more coherent and responsive policies and programmes for the oceans, including the coastal zone, the critical interface between people and the sea.

It spoils, fouls and destroys the beauty of the sea and the coastal zone.

The large population in our coastal areas and in the islands has always looked to the sea for sustenance.

(b) National and regional capacity in the field of IMCAM

(g) Criteria for the establishment of, and for management aspects of, MCPAs

Kuwait determines the areas requiring remediation by identifying areas of high levels of oil contamination (TPH at or above 100mg kg ) that correspond to low levels of RSA species richness (three or less in areas which, according to Kuwait, normally contain a richness of 10 to 14).

The Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Implementation of Integrated Marine and Coastal Area Management met from 11 to 15 July 2005 to consider how countries can implement the Convention's programme of work on marine and coastal biodiversity (decision VII 5, annex I) as it relates to integrated marine and coastal area management.

There is a need to differentiate between measures aimed at preventing marine litter at the source and measures taken to deal with marine litter once it is already present in the marine and coastal environment.

Notes the work under the Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity, and the Convention on Biological Diversity elaborated programme of work on marine and coastal biological diversity

Kuwait states that its coastal environment was damaged by millions of barrels of oil deliberately released into the Persian Gulf by Iraqi forces.

1. Subcommittee on Oceans and Coastal Areas of the Administrative Committee on Coordination

The Division of Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea will also continue to participate actively in the mechanisms of cooperation and coordination established by the High Level Committee on Programmes (oceans) to replace the Subcommittee on Oceans and Coastal Areas of the Administrative Committee on Coordination.

It has an open ocean subsystem to improve weather and climate forecasting and a coastal one for coastal seas.

Oceans and the law of the sea law of the sea

Oceans and the law of the sea law of the sea

These include assessments of marine litter as a land based pollutant and its impact on critical coastal and marine ecosystems.