Second Meeting of the Working Group on Marine and Coastal Ecosystems (WGMCE-2)

The Second Meeting of the WGMCE serves to exchange national best practices and lessons learned, to provide regional and global updates of activities related to the Marine and Coastal Ecosystems (MCE) Framework, including project pipelines and exploring other opportunities and collaboration. The meeting also serves as a knowledge sharing platform on Marine Spatial Planning, MPA, and OECMs, and to identify priorities for the first biennial workplan for implementation of the MCE Framework 2025-2026. The WGMCE-2 develops further substantive issues to address decisions to be made by the Twenty-sixth Intergovernmental Meeting (IGM 26) of COBSEA (23-25 October 2024).

The meeting will take place in a hybrid format, with the option for online participation.

The meeting is in parallel with the Sixth Meeting of the Working Group on Marine Litter (WGML-6) (21-22 October 2024).

All meeting documents will be available to country participants on the Papersmart Portal.