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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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NOWPAP DINRAC participated the Consultation Meeting of Freshwater Health Index (Dongjiang Project)
2018-07-10

The Freshwater Health Index (Dongjiang Project) Consultation Meeting was held on November 13th in Guangzhou, China. The consultation meeting was jointly hosted by the Conservation International (CI), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Research Center for Water Resources and Environment of Sun Yat-sen University and co-organized by the Guangzhou Ocean and Fisheries Nature Reserve Management Station. More than 30 representatives from government, universities, enterprises, and NGOs participated in the consultation meeting.

The Freshwater Health Index is proposed to systematically evaluate the watershed ecosystem vitality, the ecosystem services, the management mechanisms from the watershed scale, and eventually providing a reference to the public policymakers. At the meeting, the Freshwater Health Index project director introduced the Freshwater Health Index in detail to the participants, as well as explaining the definition of FHI indicators’ and discussing the methodologies.

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