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Objectives

The objectives of the 22nd annual meeting is to launch the new Regional Seas Strategic Directions 2022 – 2025 and kickstart its implementation.

The meeting will also deliberate on

  • Marine litter and plastics pollution in light of Resolution to End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument (UNEP/EA5/L23/REV.1) and the
  • Role of the Regional Seas Programme; Ocean Governance; Regional Seas Programme input to the June 2022 UN Ocean Conference; Western Indian Ocean Marine Regions Forum in 2023; among others.

Background

The Regional Seas Programme (RSP) was launched in 1974 in the wake of the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm.

The Caribbean Environment Programme was established in 1981 as the Regional Seas Programme for the Wider Caribbean.

The annual Global Meetings of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans organized by UNEP is a coordination mechanism of the eighteen (18) regional seas conventions and action plans.

For more details, please visit: https://www.unep.org/events/conference/twenty-second-global-meeting-regional-seas-programme.

For more information, please contact:

Regional Seas Coordinator: Ms. Nancy Soi [at]un.org

Administrative Assistant: Ms. Mary Rono [at]un.org

Programmes Assistant: Ms. Winnie Ikinya [at]un.org

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.

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