UN Environment Event

First Sargassum Webinar: Sargassum in the Caribbean and West Africa – Key Challenges, Responses and Collaborations

26 May 2020

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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) in collaboration with its partners, is organizing this webinar to highlight key challenges, responses and collaboration of sargassum in the context of the Caribbean and West-Africa, as well as highlight efforts of the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP) Working Group on Sargassum, and build on outcomes of the recent Sargassum International Conference (Guadeloupe, October 2019).

The webinar will be held on Tuesday, 26 May 2020, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EAT.

For more information please visit: https://www.unenvironment.org/events/un-environment-event/sargassum-caribbean-and-west-africa-key-challenges-responses-and

Summary Report

Recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUyvEA4x6ng&feature=youtu.be

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CEP was established in 1981 as part of the Regional Seas Programme in recognition of the importance and value of the Wider Caribbean Region’s fragile and vulnerable coastal and marine ecosystems including endemic plants and animals.