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Consultant on Pollution Hotspot Methodology development, application period: 2013 September 20 - 2013 September 27

The members of the Baltic Sea Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM), formed by the nine coastal countries and the EU, have today started their 42nd Heads of Delegation Meeting particularly focusing on the precise contents of the 2013 Ministerial Declaration, set to be adopted in exactly one month. The Declaration will cover a wide selection of topics covering biodiversity and ecosystem services, eutrophication, hazardous substances, shipping, preparedness and response to pollution at sea, along with monitoring, assessment and marine knowledge.

Global Water Partnership and the OECD have launched a joint project to establish a Global Dialogue on Water Security and Sustainable Growth. The major output of the cooperation will be a milestone report to be presented at the World Water Forum in 2015 in South Korea.

New online tool helps smallholder water management The majority of farmers in Africa rely on rainwater for to produce their crops but suffer from high evaporation, variable and uneven distribution of rainfall, prolonged dry spells and occasional flooding. Climate change is making variable rainfall even less predictable in some areas.     But now Africa’s […]

Global Water Partnership and the OECD have launched a joint project to establish a Global Dialogue on Water Security and Sustainable Growth. The major output of the cooperation will be a milestone report to be presented at the World Water Forum in 2015 in South Korea.

FFA HQ, Honiara, SOLOMON ISLANDS.—The honour of receiving the 2013 Pacific Ocean Commissioners Award has been described as a moment of recognition for   regional solidarity by the Forum Fisheries Director General, James Movick. News of the award came during a keynote statement at an ‘Oceanscape’ event last night in the wings of the current 44th Pacific Forum Leaders meeting this week in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands.

The State Department of Fisheries (SDF) through support from Kenya Coastal Development Project (KCDP) is working on certification of the lobster fishery in Lamu County to give it a competitive edge in the world market. KCDP is a World Bank funded initiative implemented by Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) in collaboration with SDF and five other partner agencies.

FFA FISHERIES TRADE NEWS  Volume 6: Issue 4   July-August 2013 By Liam Campling and Elizabeth Havice[1] CONTENTS Preferential Trade Agreements Philippines tuna industry set to gain from EU GSP reform  Fisheries Regulation EU makes first use of sustainable fisheries trade sanctions  OPRT pushes for reduction in WCPO fishing capacity Fisheries Development Greenpeace report promotes small-scale tuna fisheries in Pacific islands  China expands distant water fisheries  EU fishery strategy for the Pacific proposed ...

SPC-FFA Joint Media Release --Evidence given by Pacific Island fisheries observers has helped secure judgements against the owners, operators and fishing masters of six tuna purse seiners, with heavy fines imposed – over USD 1.5 million in total. All of the boats had been accused of fishing on fish aggregating devices (FADs) during the FAD ban in 2009, a measure put in place across the region to reduce catches of small bigeye ...

Asunción, Paraguay: The Paraguayan government has extended the "Zero Deforestation Law" for a further five years, resulting in an important conservation win for this highly threatened eco-region. The Land Conversion Moratorium for the Atlantic Forest of Paraguay, also known as the "Zero Deforestation Law" was enacted in 2004 and dramatically slowed the country's deforestation rate by prohibiting the transformation and conversion of forested areas in Paraguay's eastern region.

Special Council Meeting, 3-4 October 2013, Bangkok, Thailand Please find Meeting Documents below; (Click to Download) File Document Name Updated Information Paper INF01 Information Note for Participants INF02 List of Documents INF03 List of Participants Working Paper  WP01 Agenda WP01a Annotated Agenda WP01b Agenda and Timetable WP02 The Financial Situation of SEAFDEC in 2003-2012 WP03 ... The post Special Council Meeting appeared first on SEAFDEC-Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center .

A youth development project will assist Caribbean states and citizens reduce current unemployment figures, with UNDP support.

Thirteen years after it was first launched, GWP’s online database  IWRM ToolBox  gets a facelift. It is not the first time a change is made, but it is the most radical. The new version, now integrated with the main GWP website,  has more features and is easier to navigate.

21 August 2013, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. “Fostering international cooperation through joint water...

International water cooperation is essential. This was one of the key messages that Ambassador Robert F. Van Lierop delivered in his keynote speech at the GWP Consulting Partners Meeting in Stockholm. He made it clear that climate adaptation issues affect the entire world.