Links with China strengthened

25th November 2009

 

We are proud to announce that a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was agreed between PML, China's National Marine Environment Monitory Centre (NMEMC) and the United Nations Development Programme Global Environment Facility (UNDP-GEF) Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem Project Management Office (YSLME PMO).

 

The signing took place in the exhibition area under the watchful eyes of senior representatives of the governments of China and the Republic of Korea as well as representatives from UNDP, GEF, the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (YSLME RGW-P and RWG-E) and the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA).

 

This MOU is being entered into by the YSLME PMO, NMEMC and PML for the purpose of enhancing collaboration, sharing experiences and knowledge in an ecosystem approach, for the sustainable use and management of coastal and marine areas and resources, remote sensing, socio-economics and modelling. This will be in the context of the activity entitled “Capacity Building Activity for Developing Ecosystem Model the Bohai and the Yellow Seas Marine Ecosystem” and will be initiated by a student exchange between PML and NMEMC, applying the PML European Regional Seas Ecosystem Model (ERSEM) model to the YSLME. This will in turn benefit the Global Coastal Ecosystem Modelling System programme, which PML is currently involved with and for which recent results include the Asian region.

 

PML, YSLME PMO and NMEMC are engaged in helping countries build their capacities in coastal and marine management, and are agreeing to the MOU to benefit from their experiences and use their respective networks and capabilities to facilitate identification of opportunities for collaboration that will lead to more sustainable use and management of coastal and marine areas and resources.

PML has been involved with project and strategic partnerships in the Asian region for over 20 years. 

 

Further information

 

Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem Project Management Office (YSLME PMO) is a United Nations Development Programme Global Environment Facility (UNDP-GEF) regional project in dealing with reducing environment degradation in the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (YSLME), through ecosystem-based approach. One of major tasks of the YSLME project is to update national capacity in monitoring and management marine environment in the Yellow Sea. One of the major thrusts of the YSLME PMO is prepare science-driven and ecosystem-based management action plan to address the environmental problems identified in the process and outcomes of the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA).

The National Marine Environment Monitory Centre (NMEMC) is a governmental institution to be responsible for marine environment monitoring, assessment and report along the entire coastal lines of China. NMEMC is also providing technical supervision to all other subsidiary monitoring centres and stations that are dealing with marine environment monitoring, assessment and report. One of the major thrusts of the NMEMC is to prepare guidelines and standards to be used in the national marine environment monitoring, assessment and report. The implementation and enforcement in applying the guidelines and standard are also the responsibilities of the NMEMC.