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Launched in 2016 and coordinated by the CBD Secretariat, FAO and UNEP, the Sustainable Ocean Initiative (SOI) Global Dialogue with Regional Seas Organizations (RSOs) and Regional Fishery Bodies (RFBs) has gained global recognition as an important platform to catalyze improved regional cooperation and collaboration, strengthen linkages between global and regional ocean processes and identify means to better support national implementation.
At a time when the world's coral reefs are experiencing the fourth global coral bleaching event, the 38th General Meeting of the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) took place between 9 - 13 September 2024, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, hosted by the General Organization for Conservation of Coral Reefs and Turtles in the Red Sea (SHAMS) and co-chaired by the United States of America, Department of State and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Ms.
Join Us for a Panel Discussion on Enhancing Ocean Governance during the Ocean Best Practices (OBPS) Workshop on 16 October 2024, 15:00 - 16:30 UTC.
We will explore how the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) can improve ocean governance, with insights from diverse sectoral and cultural perspectives. Our esteemed speakers will share their expertise and discuss the challenges and opportunities for creating comprehensive governance frameworks.
📢 Speakers:
Christopher Corbin
In accordance with Rules 53 (Participation of UN and its Subsidiary Bodies) and 54 (Participation of other Observers) of the Cartagena Convention’s Rules of Procedure, the Secretariat may invite the ''United Nations, any subsidiary body thereof, or any specialized agency...any international inter-governmental or non-governmental organization, which so requests, to any meeting or conference as an observer pro
The third Project Steering Committee (PSC) Meeting of the
An increasing amount of evasive plastic fragments smaller than 5 mm in length (Microplastics) are found in the water of the Caribbean Sea annually. The management of these Microplastics are proving to be an increasing challenge for the Greater Caribbean region. The impacts of these Microplastics on the environment and human health are the subject of ongoing research and studies in the region.
The UNEP Cartagena Convention Secretariat and Caribbean Environment Programme is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Christopher Corbin as Coordinator, effective 1st September 2022.
On Tuesday 21st June 2022, the Cartagena Convention Secretariat was pleased to welcome its focal points, representatives of governments, UNEP staff, partner agencies and members of the wider public to the virtual launch of its 35th anniversary video.
In the lead up to the United Nations Ocean Conference, the United Nations Department of Global Communications explored some of the ocean-related issues facing the eastern Caribbean island nation of Barbados.
The Tenth Ordinary Steering Committee Meeting of the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency, Information and Training Centre – Caribe (RAC REMPEITC-Caribe) was held in Willemstad, Curacao from 18th to 19th May 2022.
From 20-21 April and 27-28 April 2022, the Cartagena Convention Secretariat will participate in the Sustainable Ocean Initiative Capacity-Building Workshop for the Wider Caribbean and Central America on Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures in the Marine Fishery Sector.
To mark five decades of the environmental movement with the Stockholm+50 international meeting, we are celebrating global collaboration on environmental challenges through this Q and A series with representatives of Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs).
Summary of the Cartagena Convention’s recent intergovernmental meetings
The Global Environment Facility-funded Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (GEF IWEco) Project, executed by the Cartagena Convention Secretariat, is thrilled to announce that its "Caribbean Breaking Up With Plastics" video won two major awards in May 2020!
The health of our oceans and seas is inextricably linked with the health of our planet and all life on earth. Many nationalities, including mine, have a special relationship with the sea.
The truth is, the sea has a special relationship with all of us.
World Oceans Day on June 8 celebrates the underwater world whose abundant marine resources sustain the land above it. Some of these resources and ecosystems, such as the overlooked seagrass, mighty mangroves, and colourful corals offer potent, nature-based solutions to climate change and sustainable development.
The Caribbean Regional Fund for Wastewater Management (GEF CReW+) project will focus on further improving integrated water and wastewater management in the Wider Caribbean.
The Economist Group's World Ocean Initiative has launched the Women and the ocean: Changemakers challenge which aims to showcase leading female changemakers across the ocean supply chain who are working to develop business solutions to achieve ocean-related sustainability. The goal is to ensure that their contribution is recognised and elevated.
The MoU was signed in September 2019 in keeping with recommendations and decisions emanating from the 8th SPAW STAC (STAC8) held in Panama (December 2018), and 15th COP to the Cartagena Convention (COP15) held in Honduras (June 2019), respectively.
The Caribbean is home to more than 700 islands and coastal countries that are connected by a shared resource - the Caribbean Sea.
This Sea forms the lifeblood of the region’s tourism, maritime and fisheries industries. However, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, valuable coastal and marine resources are under increasing threat from land and marine-based sources of pollution.
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As co-hosts of the Global Partnership on Marine Litter-Caribbean Node, the Cartagena Convention Secretariat and the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute will launch a social media campaign from July 1-31, 2019 to raise awareness on plastic pollution and encourage the use of alternative products and practices.
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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.