NOWPAP Quarterly April-june 2022

NOWPAP Progress

Public symposium “Future Action of Science and Policy on Global Chemicals Management towards 2030 Agenda and Beyond”

Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity

NOWPAP presents in the 22nd Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans

Explore opportunities for further cooperation with the 21st-Century Maritime Cooperation Committee

Upcoming Events

NOWPAP-COBSEA Technical Session will be organized in the 7th International Marine Debris Conference in September 2022 in Busan, ROK

Public symposium “Future Action of Science and Policy on Global Chemicals Management towards 2030 Agenda and Beyond”

The public symposium “Future Action of Science and Policy on Global Chemicals Management towards 2030 Agenda and Beyond” was organised in Toyama, Japan on June 13-16, 2022, by three Societies on Environmental Chemicals, Japan Society of Environmental Chemistry (JEC), Japan Society of Endocrine Disruptors Research (JSEDR), and Japan Society of Environmental Toxicology (JSET).

The WSSD 2020 Goal “…by 2020, … chemicals are used and produced in ways that lead to the minimisation of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, …” set at the World Summit for Sustainable Development 2002, Johannesburg, has long been an ultimate global framework for the management of chemicals in the environment.

Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity

(Stockholm+50) is an international meeting convened by the United Nations General Assembly to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 2-3 June 2022.

It commemorates the 50 years since the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, which made the environment a pressing global issue for the first time. Some 122 countries attended, and participants adopted a series of principles on the environment, including the Stockholm Declaration and Action Plan for the Human Environment. UNEP was created as a result of the conference. Mr. Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the 1972 event, said the lasting message from the event was a "realisation that man has come to one of those seminal points in his history where his own activities are the principal determinants of his own future."

NOWPAP presents in the 22nd Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans

The 22nd Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans was held in a hybrid format on 25-27 May 2022 in Mahé, Seychelles. Eighteen Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans including NOWPAP and global Multilateral Environmental Agreements representatives attended the meeting.

The meeting was opened by Ms. Susan Gardner, Director of the Ecosystems Division of UNEP, Mr. Flavien Joubert, Minister of Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, Seychelles, and Mr. Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. Ms. Gardner highlighted that the meeting provided an opportunity for Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans to exchange views on how to strengthen ocean governance, including contributions to biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ), blue economy, the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework under the CBD, and the UN decade of Ocean Science.

Explore opportunities for further cooperation with the 21st-Century Maritime Cooperation Committee

NOWPAP was invited to attend the Second General Assembly of the 21st-Century Maritime Cooperation Committee and the Forum on Smart Ocean organised by the Committee in collaboration with the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Fuzhou Municipal People's Government of China on 17-18 May 2022.

The Second General Assembly adopted the revised Charter of the 21st-Century Maritime Cooperation Committee, established the Council of the Committee, and announced Council Members, new Committee Members, and new Advisers. Ning Liu, Programme Officer of NOWPAP, was appointed as Adviser and delivered a speech on behalf of new advisers. He highlighted that the multi-faceted nature of maritime issues requests a holistic, integrated, and comprehensive approach to address them. He also introduced that a NOWPAP Regional Action Plan on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Conservation and the revised NOWPAP Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter are in the process of adoption and looked forward to exploring possibilities of cooperation in this regard.

Upcoming Events

The Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA) and the Northwest Pacific Region (NOWPAP) will organize a technical session titled “Strengthening Regional Cooperation for Global Action on Marine Litter in the East Asian Seas and Northwest Pacific” on 20 September 2022 at 11:00 AM (UTC/GMT +9 ) during the Seventh International Marine Debris Conference (7IMDC), 18-23 September 2022 (https://www.7imdc.org/).

It is to explore opportunities to strengthen regional cooperation to tackle the global threat of plastic pollution.The session will last for one hour. The targeted audience include stakeholders from COBSEA and NOWPAP countries, as well as other Regional Seas programmes, and regional organizations in the East Asian Seas and Northwest Pacific.

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