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Oceans: Marine Pollution: Keep the Oceans Clean - SDG Policy Brief No. 001
(2017)
Marine pollution is the result of deliberate or accidental discharge of untreated wastewater, dumping of solid wastes and other polluted runoff from a variety of land-based activities directly into our rivers and coastal ...
Impact of Pollution on the Marine Environment
(2017-09-18)
Impact of Pollution on the Marine Environment
Oceans and Coasts - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 7
(2019)
Oceans have many uses, and there are too many linkages among marine ecosystems and between the land and adjacent seas to review them all in this chapter. The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment (A/RES/70/235; Inniss ...
Oceans and Coastal Policy - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 14
(2019)
The impacts of human activities on the oceans have serious social and economic implications, which directly and indirectly affect human health and well-being. As noted in chapter 7 of this report, impacts of great concern ...
Focal Points Meeting of Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Western Indian Ocean Region (Nairobi Convention)
(2018-06-11)
The Nairobi Convention holds a Conference of Contracting Parties (COPs) after two years to review the implementation of decisions of past COPs. The Contracting Parties to the Nairobi Convention held the Eighth Conference ...
Ocean Policies and Institutional Arrangements for Cross-sectoral Cooperation: Case studies for achieving Sustainable Development Goals - UNEP Regional Seas Report and Studies No. 204
(2017)
The case studies include: i) Delivering the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development 2016-2025 through a highly inclusive process to transpose Agenda 2030 and its sustainable development goals at the regional ...