The State of the Coasts Report of Ansan City is a record of Ansan City’s efforts on sustainable development and attainment of the City’s vision: Green and Eco City. This report presents a comprehensive data, information and analysis on PEMSEA’s SOC core indicators from various sources since 2010 as the baseline year.

The Laguna de Bay Ecosystem Health Report Card provides information to decision makers and stakeholders on the state of health of the lake environment. The report card measured indicators for water quality and fisheries to assess the overall quality of the lake ecosystem based on data from 2013. The results from the assessment are intended to inform policy and investment planning on the best management practices for improving the environmental quality of the lake.

The Sustainable Development Strategy for the Seas of East Asia is a package of applicable principles, relevant existing regional and international action programmes, agreements, and instruments, as well as implementation approaches, for achieving sustainable development of the Seas of East Asia. It offers a regional framework for the interested countries and other stakeholders to implement, in an integrated or holistic manner, the commitments they have already made, without assuming new legal obligations. The SDS-SEA embodies the shared vision of the countries and other stakeholders for the Seas of East Asia, and the ways by which they will achieve that shared vision.

This research paper seeks to understand and map current financial funding flows to integrated coastal management (ICM)-related sectors across the grants and investment capital spectrum. The paper  identifies regional and country-level trends in ICM funding across ten related industries.

Through a desk review of information and literature available in the public domain, the paper identifies the major funders, programs, areas of investment, types of investors, geographical preferences, and sizes of the investments deployed across ICM-related sectors in select countries of East Asia. The paper also analyzes the requirements, strategies, and expectations of investors and donors — as gleaned from information available in the public domain and Internet sources.

This report centers on one sector that plays a fundamental role in the economy, but which has received lesser attention thus far in the blue economy discussion: business. The focus is on businesses operating in coastal and marine areas in East Asia, a region where the seas are essential to the lives and economies of its people. From the perspective of industry, the report aims to define and establish an understanding of the importance of blue economy and how it might impact various industries and, ultimately, provide a roadmap to help companies make better decisions to position themselves competitively in the growing blue economy.

The PEMSEA Accomplishment Report 2014-2015 provides an overview of the progress made at the regional, national and local levels in support of the regional marine strategy, the Sustainable Development Strategy for the Seas of East Asia (SDS-SEA).

Cy Jones of the World Resources Institute (WRI) developed a set of preliminary recommendations for strategies and tools for use in the restoration of Manila Bay. This report presents a brief introduction to Manila Bay issues and the application of lessons learned from other international experience.

The Regional Review highlights the overall progress of PEMSEA's 12 partner countries on regional and national levels. The review measures the implementation of the Sustainable Development Strategy for the Seas in East Asia using PEMSEA's Framework.

PEMSEA's latest accomplishment report presents the achievements and collaborative actions of the organization from July 2011 to July 2013. The events and successes of the past two years were both crucial and meaningful to PEMSEA as it celebrates 20 years of pursuing the shared vision of sustainable development in the East Asian Seas, and prepares to advance to the next phase of scaling up the implementation of the SDS-SEA. Aside from completing the activities and consolidating the results of the regional project on SDS-SEA implementation, PEMSEA has also taken significant steps these past two years in establishing itself as a full-fledged self-sustaining regional organization. PEMSEA has also focused on increasing its efforts in enhancing the region's intellectual capital and human resources in ICM through capacity development programs; and promoting PEMSEA's message to a wider audience through events, policy advocacy, and communications and media. As highlighted in this report, PEMSEA has also scaled up the implementation of ICM in several coastal communities and has put forward initiatives in strengthening, as well as documenting, the region’s wealth of knowledge and experience in marine and coastal governance.