ocean meetings - ongoing and upcoming

3 – 8 February 2025: CITES: Seventy-eighth meeting of the Standing Committee, Geneva, Switzerland.

24 - 28 February 2025: 6th Ocean Innovation Africa Summit, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania

3 – 7 March 2025: European Ocean Days 2025 in Brussels, Belgium.

3 - 28 March 2025: part 1 of the 30th Session of the International Seabed Authority Assembly and Council will be held in Kingston, Jamaica.

7 - 11 April 2025: the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 83) will meet at the IMO in London, UK.

12 - 13 March 2025: The Economist and The Nippon Foundation’s World Ocean Summit 12 will take place in Tokyo, Japan.

14-25 April 2025: PrepCom for the entry into force of the BBNJ Agreement and the convening of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Agreement

15 – 17 April 2025: 2025 International Cable Protection Committee Plenary, Montreal, Canada.

28 April - 1 May 2025: the tenth Our Ocean Conference will be held in Busan, Republic of Korea.

28 April to 9 May 2025: 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention will be held in Geneva, Switzerland.

4 - 6 June 2025: UNOC3 Preparatory Event: One Ocean Science Congress, Nice, France.

7 - 8 June 2025: UNOC3 Preparatory Event: Blue Economy and Finance Forum, Nice, France.

8 June 2025: World Ocean Day

9 -13 June 2025: the third United Nations Ocean Conference will be co-hosted by the Governments of Costa Rica and France and held in Nice, France.

23 June - 25 July 2025: part 2 of the 30th Session of the International Seabed Authority Assembly and Council will be held in Kingston, Jamaica.

30 June - 3 July 2025: Global Tipping Points Conference, Exeter, UK.

23 - 31 July 2025: COP15 of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands will take place in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.

18-29 August 2025: PrepCom for the entry into force of the BBNJ Agreement and the convening of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Agreement

9 - 15 October 2025: the IUCN World Conservation Congress will take place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

20 - 31 October 2025: CCAMLR-44 to meet in Hobart, Tasmania.

November 2025: COP30, the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, will be held in Belém, Brazil.

4th quarter 2026: 17th meeting on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP 17 will be held in Yerevan, Armenia.

2025: 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CITES CoP20) will take place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.