Lima
Convention • Permanent Commission of the South Pacific
(CPPS)
The
Convention
for the Protection of the Marine Environment and Coastal Area
of the South-East Pacific (Lima Convention) was adopted
1981 and came into in force in 1986. Its objective is to protect
the marine environment and coastal zones of the South-East Pacific
within the 200-mile area of maritime sovereignty and jurisdiction
of the Parties, and beyond that area, the high seas up to a
distance within which pollution of the high seas may affect
that area. The Contracting Parties agree, inter alia,
to take all necessary measures to prevent, reduce and control
pollution of the Convention area, particularly pollution from
land-based sources, from or through the atmosphere, from vessels
and from any other installations and devices operating in the
marine environment.
The
Convention has six protocols.
The
Permanent
Commission of the South Pacific — Comisión
Permanente del Pacífico Sur, CPPS — serves as
the Secretariat of the Convention, and of the South-East Pacific
Action Plan. The
CPPS is the regional maritime organization responsible for the
coordination of the maritime policies of its Member States:
Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. |
South-East
Pacific Action Plan
South-East
Pacific Action Plan: "In order
to protect our rich marine and coastal environment, the South-East
Pacific Action Plan was approved in 1981 together with its general
legal framework, the Lima Convention. The Action Plan is carried
out within the framework of inter-agency cooperation between
the Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS) and UNEP,
and some two dozen agencies, programmes and Convention Secretariats.
[...] When Agenda 21 and the conventions on biodiversity and
climate change were transforming the international environmental
landscape, the South-East Pacific region already had in place
a regional mechanism of cooperation for their implementation,
reinforced by the technical, scientific, legal and institutional
groundwork laid by the South-East Pacific Action Plan. [...]
Given our vulnerability to the great oceanic phenomena of the
southern Pacific, it is clear that we cannot fulfill the vision
of our Action Plan working in isolation. We recently signed
a historic agreement with our like-minded neighbour, the South
Pacific Environment Programme (SPREP), to cooperate in the protection
of a more extensive area of the Pacific."
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Integrated
Management of the Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem
The
general objective of this GEF-funded project Integrated
Management of the Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem (IMHCLME)
is to enhance the national and regional efforts to move forward
towards an integrated and sustainable management of this LME.
The first phase of the project started in July 2002, and the
primary tasks during the first year of will be to define the
key problems, issues and threats and identifying priorities
options and alternatives; to make a Transboundary Diagnostic
Analysis and Strategic Action Programme for the IMHCLME; to
outline a series of activities and projects funded by national
governments and donor agencies, together with a financing plan;
and to make detailed proposals for GEF financing. (See also
Instituto
del Mar del Perú.) |
UNEP
Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC)
UNEP
Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC)
seeks to further UNEP's global mandate of providing leadership
in and promoting joint efforts for environmental care, and encouraging,
informing and building the capacity of nations and peoples to
improve their lives without endangering that of future generations.
• ROLAC also serves as the Secretariat of the Forum
of Environmental Ministers for Latin America and the Caribbean
(Foro
de Ministros de Medio Ambiente de América Latina y el
Caribe). |
UN
Economic Commissioin for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
The
objective of the UN
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC) is to contribute to the economic development of Latin
America, coordinate actions directed towards this end, and reinforce
economic relationships among the countries and with the other
nations of the world. ECLAC is also to promote the region's
social development. |
Mundo
Azul
Mundo
Azul
is a non-governmental Peruvian organization for scientific submarine
and subaquatic investigation, for the protection of aquatic
ecosystems and species, for environmental
education, and sustainable development. It is pointed out
that "In Peru 50 per cent of the population lives along
the coast. Nearly nowhere domestic and industrial waste and
sewage is treated before dumped into the environment. The impact
of fisheries leads to diminishing stocks, direct hunt of endangered
species and further pollution. The increasing urbanization —
mostly informal and disorganized — destroys important coastal
habitats". |
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Agreements