MINISTRY

Since 2001, the Environment Ministry and the Northwest Pacific Region Environmental Cooperation Center have been promoting the Marine Environmental Watch Project as a means of establishing a system to distribute marine environment data, gathered by satellites and analyzed, to NOWPAP affiliated countries and other nations... Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP) has been implemented by the People's Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the Russian Federation in September 1994 as a part of the Regional Seas Programme of the United Nations Environment Programme since 1994... To implement the NOWPAP, regional activity center was established in each NOWPAP member country. Special Monitoring and Coastal Environmental Assessment Centre (CEARAC) was established in Japan, hosted by Northwest Pacific Region Environmental Cooperation Center (NPEC), to develop a special monitoring program of marine environment by utilizing remote sensing techniques in 2002.