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UNITED NATIONS EP Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme Distr. GENERAL UNEP/GC.21/INF/6 20 December 2000 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH Twenty-first session Nairobi, 5-9 February 2001 Item 7 of the provisional agenda* GLOBAL MINISTERIAL ENVIRONMENT FORUM LINKAGES AMONG AND SUPPORT TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENVIRONMENT-RELATED CONVENTIONS Managing global water resources: regional seas Progress report – 1 January – 31 December 2000 Note by the Executive Director The present progress report on the UNEP regional seas programme is submitted in support of Governing Council decision 20/19 A (Oceans and seas) (...) (b) The fifteenth meeting also considered for adoption a regional programme of action under the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities. (...) The following activities were organized in pursuit of strengthened linkages with the Global Programme of Action: (a) Support for the participation of representatives of the Lima Convention, the Noumea Convention and the Cartagena Convention was considered in an expert group meeting held in The Hague from 26 to 28 April 2000 to prepare for the first Intergovernmental Review Meeting of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environmental from Land-based Activities.

UNITED NATIONS EP Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme Distr. GENERAL UNEP/GC.21/4/Add.1 20 January 2001 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH Twenty-first session Nairobi, 5-9 February 2001 Item 7 of the provisional agenda* GLOBAL MINISTERIAL ENVIRONMENT FORUM COORDINATION AND COOPERATION WITHIN AND OUTSIDE THE UNITED NATIONS, INCLUDING NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS GOVERNANCE OF THE UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME FOLLOW-UP OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTIONS LINKAGES AMONG AND SUPPORT TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENVIRONMENT-RELATED CONVENTIONS Report of the Executive Director Addendum Regional seas conventions and action plans Contents Page I. (...) Other decisions closely linked to decision 20/19 A include decision 20/18 B (Strengthening the role of the United Nations Environment Programme in promoting collaboration among multilateral environmental conventions and in providing programmatic support to multilateral environmental conventions), 20/19 B (Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities), 20/19 D (Small island developing States), 20/20 (Establishment of a regional seas programme for the East Central Pacific), 20/21 (Coral reefs), 20/27 (Support to Africa) and 20/28 (Promoting interlinkages among global environmental issues and human needs). 2. (...) UNEP/GC/21/4/Add.1 8 3. Collaboration with global environmental conventions and related international agreements Recalling decision 20/18 B on strengthening the role of UNEP in promoting collaboration among multilateral environmental conventions, decision 20/28 on promoting interlinkages among global environmental issues and human needs and decision 20/19 B on the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of marine Environment fro Land-based Activities, Considering decision V/3 of the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in May 2000 on joint programming of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the regional seas conventions and action plans, Taking into account the Strategic Action Plan adopted by the Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in April 2000, which calls for closer collaboration with regional seas programmes, 1.

Lastly, it considers the pending third intergovernmental review of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (...) Notes with appreciation the progress report of the Executive Director on the implementation of decision SS.XI/7 on oceans,1 which includes information on work undertaken by the United Nations Environment Programme to protect marine and coastal ecosystems, especially through its marine and coastal strategy, the Regional Seas Programme and the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities; 2. (...) The third session of the Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities is tentatively scheduled to take place in November 2011.

Povl Frich Special Adviser Danish Environmental Protection Agency Ministry of the Environment Ms. (...) Martin Hansen Special Adviser Danish Environmental Protection Agency Ministry of the Environment Mr. (...) Outi Berghäll Director, International Climate Project Ministry of the Environment Mr. Jukka Uosukainen Deputy Director General, Global Environmental Affairs Ministry of the Environment Mr.