UN-Oceans is an inter-agency mechanism that seeks to enhance the coordination, coherence and effectiveness of competent organizations of the United Nations system and the International Seabed Authority, in conformity with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the respective competences of each of its participating organizations and the mandates and priorities approved by their respective governing bodies.
SPC- EU Deep Sea Minerals Project
The Deep Sea Minerals Project is a collaboration between the Pacific Community (SPC) and the European Union (EU).
Initiated in 2011, the €4.4 million DSM Project is helping Pacific Island countries to improve the governance and management of their deep-sea minerals resources in accordance with international law, with particular attention to the protection of the marine environment and securing equitable financial arrangements for Pacific Island countries and their people.
Tropical Ecology Assessment & Monitoring Network
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Mapping Multilateral Environmental Agreements to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
Technical report:
Vision
The NOAA Marine Debris Program envisions the global ocean and its coasts free from the impacts of marine debris.
The mission of the NOAA Marine Debris Program is to investigate and prevent the adverse impacts of marine debris.
The Papua New Guinea (PNG) forests are vital for the human population that they sustain, the wide biological diversity they contain, the ecological services they provide and in maintaining climatic stability. They also provide commercial timber; approx. 3 million m³ of raw logs were exported in 2011.
This document is an important tool for promoting action. It highlights the importance of culturally‐responsive capacity development, with Pacific Islanders defining the most appropriate approaches to be used. This requires partnerships, programs, and processes that work closely with existing contexts and conditions, understand and reflect values and cultures, and help build on existing knowledge and the great strength of the region – community‐based management. That is the purpose of this framework.
