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1st Day of Steering Committee Meeting
Date: July 1, 2020
Time: 8:30am - 1:30pm (Jamaica Time)
2nd Day of Steering Committee Meeting
Date: July 2, 2020
Time: 8:30am - 1:30pm (Jamaica Time)
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This virtual seminar will present monitoring and regulation measures for the conservation of herbivorous fish, essential to maintaining the health and ecological functions of coral reefs. You’ll hear from experts working for reef conservation in the Mesoamerican Reef System, Bonaire Island and other territories of the Wider Caribbean Region.
Thursday. June 25th, 2020
This Workshop aims to discuss the development of an AmeriGEO oil spill information system for the Wider Caribbean.
In recent years, the Wider Caribbean region has faced challenges from oil spill incidents including a recent event where oil washed up on thousands of kilometers of Brazil’s coastline from an unknown source and multiple spills originating from Trinidad and Tobago. Illegal dumping of oil-contaminated waste by ships operating in the region is also a common occurrence.
In light of the rapidly approaching hurricane season and the current global and regional health and economic climate, this month’s webinar focuses on building resilience in Caribbean Countries through nature-based solutions to climate change and disaster resilience and recovery efforts.
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Introduction to UNEP’s Climate Change Portfolio & Caribbean Efforts: Gustavo Manez
According to The Ocean Conservancy, 8m tonnes of plastic is entering the ocean every year. The impact on the ocean is well publicised, and encouraging steps are being taken to eliminate plastic waste and pollution. The future of plastics in the ocean will be determined by the way plastics are managed on land – the problem must be addressed throughout the supply chain, and end to end solutions found.
Antigua and Barbuda, Norway and the Maldives will launch the new Group of Friends to Combat Plastic Pollution on World Ocean Day, 8 June 2020.
Plastic production has skyrocketed, going from 2 million metric tons in 1950 to 380 million metric tons in 2015 and is expected to further triple in the next two decades.
Join GPML-Caribe as they present as part of the 2020 Global Partnership on Marine Litter Webinar Series
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The webinar will explore the role of UNEP in the Caribbean regarding the conservation of biodiversity and their habitats and promote concepts and values that encourage the audience to understand the role of each species in maintaining ecosystem balance and the importance of protecting them
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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).
FECHA
22 de Mayo del 2020 / Día Internacional de la Diversidad Biológica
Horario: 10:30am tiempo de la CDMX-MÉXICO / Kingston-JAMAICA
REGISTRO: https://bit.ly/Peces22
Duración: 1:30 hrs a 2:00 hrs
Since 2016, the UN Environment Programme Caribbean Sub-Regional Office, located in Kingston Jamaica has sought to improve its relevance in the Caribbean, bring the services of the global UN Environment Programme closer to the Caribbean and assist countries to achieve environmental sustainability as a part of the global 2030 Agenda.
The Secretariat of the Basel Convention will be hosting a webinar as a follow up on the first meeting of its Plastic Waste Partnership Working Group that was held from 2nd to 5th March 2020 in Seychelles. As a member of this Working Group, the Cartagena Convention Secretariat was represented at this meeting which successfully concluded with agreements on several items, notably the establishment of project groups and consensus on activities that will be implemented by each project group.
The webinar will be held on the following dates:
OBJECTIVE: To orient new and existing users on how to access, use and update the Caribbean Marine Protected Area Management (CaMPAM) geospatial database.
TARGET AUDIENCES: Managers of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Caribbean region, marine spatial planners, researchers and the members of the MPA community in general.
An introduction to the main obstacles for efficient and sustainable growth presented by biofouling in the marine aquaculture industry. The webinar will highlight the key impacts, and the different antifouling methods in use for the prevention and control of biofouling on finfish, seaweed and shellfish aquaculture.
Speaker: Nina Bloecher, Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF
Time: 9:00 am (GMT), 10:00 (CET), 12:00 pm (EAT), 4:00 pm (WIB), 5:00 (PHT)
Hosted by The Government of Jamaica through the Centre for Marine Sciences, University of the West Indies Kingston, Jamaica, the Interregional Workshop on the Use of Nuclear Techniques for Sargassum Control has the following objectives:-
The 21st Global Annual Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans will be held in Berlin, Germany October 3 to 5 2019. The meeting will be hosted by the Secretariat of the Helsinki Convention and will be held back to back with the Marine Regions Forum.
UNESCO workshop on "Mobilizing Indigenous and Local Knowledge Solutions: Addressing Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities"
the UNESCO-sponsored regional workshop “Mobilizing indigenous and local knowledge solutions: addressing climate impacts and vulnerabilities” provides a platform for a Caribbean-wide overview of how indigenous and local knowledge is used to address the impacts of climate change.
According the World Health Organization, 7 million people die prematurely every year as a direct or indirect result of air pollution. In addition, 93% of children live in areas where the air pollution levels are above the recommended standards of the World Health Organization.
Eighteenth Intergovernmental Meeting on the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme and Fifteenth Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region - June 5-6, 2019
The information note can be accessed here.
Fourth Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities in the Wider Caribbean Region (LBS) - June 4, 2019
The information note can be accessed here.
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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.