Hanoi, Vietnam — PEMSEA has commenced its initial preparations for next year's East Asian Seas (EAS) Congress, with the Government of Vietnam confirming its commitment to host the next triennial event.

 

 

NOWPAP convened its first Extraordinary Intergovernmental Meeting (IGM) on 9–10 April in Seoul, RO Korea, to discuss possible measures to address financial sustainability of the NOWPAP Regional Coordinating Unit (RCU) offices in Toyama and Busan. Representatives of member states (PR China, Japan, RO Korea and Russia), as well as United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters attended the two-day special meeting, which was requested by the chair of the 18th NOWPAP Intergovernmental Meeting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quezon City, Philippines — In an effort to foster synergy and collaboration among implementers of nutrient loading and ecosystem modeling efforts in the Manila Bay watershed, a technical workshop to discuss the scope, expected outputs, challenges and way forward was held on 10 April 2014 at the PEMSEA Resource Facility with representation from various research and computer modeling projects in the Bay.
Preliminary results from existing nutrient, pollutant and ecosystem modeling efforts in Manila Bay were presented. These included: