Reversing Environmental Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand

The overall goal of the Project is to foster and encourage, at a regional level, collaboration and partnership in addressing transboundary environmental problems of the South China Sea between all stakeholders and at all levels. The Project also seeks to enhance the capacity of the participating governments to integrate environmental considerations into national development planning. In the medium term, the objective of the project is to facilitate an agreement on specific targeted and costed actions for the longer term to address the priority transboundary issues and meet the targets which emerged from the diagnostic study, and the framework program of actions completed during the PDF-B phase. The priorities that will be addressed are wide ranging in both context and proposed areas of action: (i) habitat conversion and loss; (ii) over-exploitation of fisheries; (iii) land based pollution; (iv) regional co-operation. Stess is placed on co-ordination of actions by diverse organisations, agencies, NGOs, private sector, government entities both a the national and regional levels.