The State of the Cartagena Convention Area: An Assessment of Marine Pollution from Land-based Sources and Activities in the Wider Caribbean Region (SOCAR)3 was conducted to determine exactly that - how pollution from land-based sources (LBS) negatively affects the region’s coastal and marine environments and the human communities that depend upon them.
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.