1. China’s NGOs activities related to marine litter issues Hao CHEN, PhD Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES), Beijing 100012, China email: chenhao@craes.org.cnchenhao@craes.org.cn Okinawa, October 24, 2013 Northwest Pacific Action Plan

2. Outline Overview of China’s environmental NGOs Activies relevant to ML issues Impacts Communications and Partnerships Perspective

3. Overview

4. milestone... Friend of Nature(FON) Friends of Earth Hong Kong (FOE) Taiwan Environmental Association (TEA) Xiamen Greencross Association (XMGCA) 198319941999 200120022007 Shenzhen Blue Ocean Conservation Association (SBOCA) Shanghai Rendu

5. distribution of NGOs related to marine environment protection along the coastal area of China

6. geographical region of NOWPAP source: http://dinrac.nowpap.org

7. distribution of NGOs related to marine environment protection along the coastline of China nowpap region

8. ICC card’s method State Oceanic Administration (SOA) method UNEP method OC NOWPAP China’s NGOs Methods used in current ICC events organized by NGOs

9. Chinese version of ICC data card, translated from English

10. Shanghai Rendu (ICC coordinator) Ocean Conservancy (OC) ICC data (ICC card) China’s marine litter focal point NOWPAP NGOs ICC events NGOs involved in the data flow of marine litter in China (except for the Taiwan Province) data (SOA method) SOA raw data, not well clssified and circulated ?

11. Activities relevant to ML

12. NGOs in the NOWPAP region NGOs in the non-NOWPAP region

13. nowpap region DEPVA

14. Total shoreline of 2,211 km, 1/10 of the total shoreline of China, and 73% of that of Liaoning Province, giving rise to 29,000 squarred km in oceanic area

15. DEPVA (Dalian Environmental Protection Volunteers Association) http://www.depv.org/ From 2003.... Outreach + Field work

16. Outreach

18. field survey and removal of ML

19. Co-organized ICC events with NOWPAP RCU in Danian City, 2008

20. Other Achievments...  Danian coastal marine litter workshop  Guidelines to marine litter survy and control  Survey reports on marine litter

21. nowpap region Shanghai Rendu

22. http://renducsr.blog.sohu.com/  In 2005, China begain to participate in the Marine Litter Activity (MALITA) project of NOWPAP  Shanghai Rendu was the first NGO in China Mainland to conduct marine litter monitoring and removal (2007), and has helped conduct ICC events in six other cities to date.  Participating in NOWPAP ICC event and workshop starting from 2011  Collecting data and reporting to ML focal poin of China and OC as well

23. Summary of Shanghai Rendu activities in ICC events in Shanghai

24. from field to community...

25. nowpap region XMGCA

26. The progressing impacts.... 2009-2012 2008-2009 2005-2008 1999-2005 Xianmen City Fujian Province Eastsouthern Coastal area China XMGCA(Xiamen Greencross Association) http://www.xmgca.org

27. 绿十字项目发展涉及人群 The progressing impacts.... XMGCA

28. Actions to reduce trash... 具 影响力的创意之三 Garbage collection, classification and removal

29. nowpap region SBOCA

30. The progressing impacts.... SBOCA (Shenzhen Blue Ocean Conservation Association) http://www.szboca.org/ch/ 20022005 kick-off by local aquarium divers 2005 reigstered by government kick-off of the “ICC Day of Shenzhen City” (3 rd Saturday, Sept.) present 9 times of the ICC Day

32. 12 beaches >2000 participants The 9 th ICC Day in 2013

33. Impacts

34. Public awareness raised Decision-making and policy-making supported for governments

35. nowpap region BOPA

36. Blue Ocean Protection Association (BOPA) at Sanya City http://www.ch-blueocean.org/  2009.12―2010.3 ~100 km walk along the coastline for marine litter suvey  “Report on environmental conditions of Sanya City coastline”  The local government took the critisim and shared the report online  This event was widely reported and circulated by media  Blue ribbons in hotels in Sanya City

38. Communications and Partnerships

39. Parternships in the NOWPAP region and beyond... APEC Marine Environmental Training and Education Center and many more...

40. JEAN+OSEAN+Taiwan Ocean Cleanup Alliance (TOCA)+Green Fin Association (kick-off in 2009)

41. A first step toward a unified platform for communication and collaboration... The 1 st workshop on China’s environmental NGOs role in marine litter issues, Shanghai(China), August 24. Organized by CRAES financially supported by UNEP under a SSFA for a project “National Report of China’s Environmental NGOs in Marine Litter Issues” and technically supported by Shanghai Rendu

43.  The Honolulu Strategy  The Global Partnership on Marine Litter  Method standardization in marine litter monitoring and data sharing  A framework and platform for unified action What we did on the workshop...

44. Perspective

45. Integrated framework NGOs 1 st ICC 20072013 20 ？

46. More to strengthen... Method Monitoring Assessement The Honolulu Strategy PartnershipOutreach Share