Events

When: 28 November 2024 at 9.00 - 12.00 (KST)

Where: Hall 321-322, Exhibition Center 2, BEXCO, Busan, Republic of Korea

Date: 01 - 02 October 2024

Time: 09h00 – 17h00

Venue: Novotel Bangkok on Siam Square, 392/44, Siam Square Soi 6, Pathumwan, Bangkok

Registration: (TBD)
 

Theme: “Delivering actions to end plastic pollution in Asia Pacific”

When: 18-20 September 2024 at 08:30 – 17:00 (GMT+7)

Where: Conference Room 3, United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok, Thailand (Hybrid)

Registration: indico.un.org/event/1011363/registrations/15495/

Background

Monitoring and assessment are indispensable in identifying marine litter status, trends, and its most critical impacts, and to support development, tracking and evaluation of policies and management interventions. The Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter (RAP MALI) of the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA) recognises the importance of robust and harmonised monitoring of plastic pollution in the environment in the East Asian Seas. 

Date:        30 May 2024, Thursday

Venue: Chelsea A, Berkeley Hotel, Bangkok

Time  : 13:30-15:30 (2hrs), 24 April 2024

Conveners:

Joana Akrofi, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Mahesh Pradhan, Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), UNEP

Objectives

Meeting Link
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/95525122243
Meeting ID: 955 2512 2243 Password: Ocean#2023

Bangkok Plastics Week is a series of capacity-building events that aim to share best practices, tools and approaches for data collection, analysis, and management of plastic pollution and marine litter to meet local and national needs, achieve regional priorities, and track progress against global goals. The events also provide a platform for networking, partnerships for collaboration, and peer learning.

An in-person consultation workshop to develop the new Strategic Directions 2023-2027 was requested by the resumed session of the Twenty-fifth Intergovernmental Meeting (IGM 25).

The workshop will conclude a year-long process of consultation toward developing the strategy to guide COBSEA activities. Participants will be invited to review the draft document and provide final inputs. Following the workshop, the final draft Strategic Directions will be disseminated for adoption via email correspondence, as per IGM 25 resolution 2.