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The East Asian Seas Regional Node of the Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GPML) is a regional marine litter knowledge management and networking hub of the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA). The Regional Node was established by the resumed Twenty-fifth Intergovernmental Meeting (IGM 25) of COBSEA in 2022 to support the achievement of the COBSEA Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter (RAP MALI). The web platform of the Regional Node provides access to marine litter knowledge, resources, good practices, data, networks and learning in the East Asian Seas region.

The Regional Node brings together resources and stakeholders in the region to promote evidence-based and collaborative action on marine litter and plastic pollution. It provides access to policies, frameworks, and knowledge products on marine litter, promotes the replication of good practices, bridges science and policy with access to a regional research and data, and strengthens learning, capacity building and partnerships. In the interim, functions of the Regional Node are carried out by the COBSEA Secretariat.

The GPML is a multi-stakeholder partnership that provides a global cooperation mechanism to prevent marine litter and microplastics, with the aim of sharing knowledge and experience and advancing solutions. Regional Nodes of the GPML create regional networks to address regional knowledge, capacity and networking needs and priorities, leveraging engagement across stakeholder groups and building on and providing linkages to the global-level framework provided by the GPML. The Regional Node is linked to the Global Digital Platform of the GPML.

About COBSEA

The Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA) is a regional intergovernmental mechanism and one of 18 Regional Seas programmes. It is the decision-making body for the East Asian Seas Action Plan, bringing together nine countries – Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Viet Nam – in protection and sustainable development of the marine and coastal environment. COBSEA focuses on marine pollution, ecosystem-based marine and coastal planning and management, and ocean governance. The COBSEA Secretariat is hosted by Thailand in Bangkok and administered by the UNEP Ecosystems Division in Nairobi.

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Marine Environmental Issues in Report on the Work of the Government, 2018（China）
2018-08-27

Source: Xinhua Agency

On March 5^th, 2018, the first meeting of the thirteen National People's Congress was held at the Great Hall of the people. The Prime Minister of the State Council, Li Keqiang, reported to the general assembly for the past five years of government work and made suggestions for this year's work. Li Keqiang's report on government work involves marine work in multiple places:

The past five years of work review:

-Marine environment protections and developments have been promoted in an orderly way.

Recommendations for the work of the government in 2018:

-We should improve the system of ecological civilization, reform and improve the management system of ecological environment, strengthen the regulation of natural ecological space use, implement a compensation system for ecological environment damage, improve the mechanism of ecological compensation, and protect the ecological environment with a more effective system.

-Implement the comprehensive management of key basins and sea areas and strictly control the reclamation of the land.

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