Events

The COP meets every year, unless the Parties decide otherwise. The first COP meeting was held in Berlin, Germany in March, 1995. The COP meets in Bonn, the seat of the secretariat, unless a Party offers to host the session. Just as the COP Presidency rotates among the five recognized UN regions - that is, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe and Western Europe and Others – there is a tendency for the venue of the COP to also shift among these groups.

Plastic Free World Conference & Expo returns in 2020 with another two-day conference and exhibition for businesses looking to reduce their plastic consumption, find and source highly sustainable alternative bio-based materials, and create a more circular economy throughout their supply chain.

The Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute (GCFI) was founded in 1947 to promote the exchange of current information on the use and management of marine resources in the Gulf and Caribbean region. From its beginning, GCFI has endeavored to involve scientific, governmental, and commercial sectors to provide a broad perspective on relevant issues, and to encourage dialogue among groups that often operate in relative isolation from one another. For 37 years, GCFI operated as an informal association under the sponsorship of the University of Miami.

The Global Ghost Gear Initiative Annual Meeting

Join the next Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Marine Litter! This free, online course was developed by UNEP and the Open Universiteit of the Netherlands, as a key activity of the Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GPML), and is now available in 10 languages!  For more information and to enroll, click here.    

The Global Partnership on Marine Litter is pleased to announce the upcoming webinar titled “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Increase of Plastic Waste in the Mediterranean" hosted by the Mediterranean Regional Node.

Workshops on marine litter management and NOWPAP International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) campaigns.

The training was a joint project between UN Environment, the Global Programme of Action (GPA), the Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GPML), the Open University of the Netherlands and  the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA). The training was implemented in partnership with the Regional Capacity Center on Clean Seas (RC3S) and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia.