Events

Under the SEA circular project, the COBSEA Secretariat and the National University of Singapore (NUS) are holding a regional consultation with focal points of the COBSEA Working Group on Marine Litter (Cambodia, People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and Viet Nam) and national stakeholders.

SEA of Solutions 2021

Theme: “Accelerating solutions to reduce plastic waste”

When: 16-18 November 2021

Where: Virtual

Register now at: https://sos2021.sea-circular.org/register/ 

Background

This regional training workshop is organized jointly with the Blue Solutions Initiative (a partnership between UNEP, GIZ, GRID-Arendal and IUCN, funded by the German Ministry of Environment) on promoting a Sustainable Ocean Economy in the East Asian Seas.  This training builds on COBSEA's past MCSP work and trainings held in partnership with Blue Solutions and utilizes an interactive training module developed by the Blue Solution Initiative to examine different elements of Sustainable Ocean Economy and discussion needs specific action in each country.

The two-day virtual Regional Ocean Policy Dialogue on 15 and 16 December 2020 will explore the interlinked issues of policy coherence, sustainable ocean finance and marine plastics pollution in Southeast Asia. The Dialogue will be co-hosted by the OECD together with the Indonesian Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investments, the ASEAN Secretariat, the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

SEA of Solutions is an annually occurring partnership event towards solving plastic pollution at source, convened by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), through the SEA circular project supported by the Government of Sweden. This year’s SEA of Solutions 2020 will be organized in collaboration with the government of Viet Nam.