East Asia Monitor

UNU e-Newsletter

Issue 12. January 2005

In this issue

Editorial Comment:
Dr. Yasuaki Naito, Professor Emeritus at National Institute of Polar Research and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan, comments on the importance of the Antarctic research and science, and the prospect of international collaboration.

The Fifth UNU-ORI Joint International Workshop on Marine Environment
This event was held in Otsuchi, Japan, during 3 - 8 November 2004. It was organized jointly by UNU, Ocean Research Institute of the University of Tokyo and the Iwate Prefectural Government. This was the fifth in a series of workshops that was initiated in 1999 involving young scholars and researchers from Asia and the Asia-Pacific island nations. Website for this workshop is now completed. <View Website>
Previous Workshops

UNU International Symposium on “Ecosystem Impacts of POPs”
Environmental Research and Training Center will host the 2005 UNU International Symposium on 26th -27th April 2005, in Bangkog, Thailand. The symposium is the sixth in a series under a UNU programme focusing on Environmental Pollution and Governance in the East Asian Hydrosphere. Speakers from the region and invited experts from other parts of the world will discuss the role of various land-based emission sources in POPs pollution in the coastal areas, particularly highlighting impacts of POPs to ecosystem.
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International Conference on Biodiversity Science and Governance
UNESCO Headquarters - Paris, 24 - 28 January 2005
The Conference Biodiversity : Science and Governance is part of the ongoing global effort to curb the loss of biodiversity by 2010. The Conference aims to contribute to and strengthen the ongoing global processes steered by the Convention on Biological Diversity, other relevant international conventions, international organizations and programmes. <conference website>