UNEP Regional Seas Programmes
For nearly three decades the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) has fostered regional cooperation on behalf of the marine
and coastal environment. It has accomplished this by stimulating
the creation of "Action Plans" - prescriptions for sound
environmental management - for each region. These include a series
of regional Conventions - unique legal instruments designed to protect
shared environment interests.
The Regional Seas Programmes remain the central UNEP initiative
providing the legal, administrative, substantive and financial framework
for the implementation of Agenda 21, and its chapter 17 on oceans
in particular.
There are now 17 regional programmes, 14 of which were initiated
by UNEP.
The OEF Regional Seas Directory includes
the contact names and details for the secretariats.
For the GPA's summary of each of the 14 programmes initiated by
UNEP click one of the orange 'pins' in the image below or follow one
of our links.
For details of the three partner programmes: Arctic
| OSPAR
- North-East | HELCOM - Baltic
Other Regional Links
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