ocean meetings - ongoing and upcoming

27-30 September 2026: Second Informal In-person Meeting of Heads of Delegation to the Plastic Pollution INC, Bangkok, Thailand

27 September-2 October 2026: IWC70 Whaling Commission Meeting, Hobart, Australia

5-7 October 2026: ICOE-OEE 2026 Ocean Energy Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands

5 – 8 October 2026: UNFCCC Pre-COP, Fiji, Pacific Islands

6-9 October 2026: Twelfth Conference of Parties (COP12) to the Nairobi Convention, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

8-10 October 2026: Arctic Circle Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland

12-15 October 2026: Global Tipping Points Conference 2026, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

13-16 October 2026: 6th International Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World, Wellington, New Zealand

19-30 October 2026: 17th meeting on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP 17, Yerevan, Armenia

19-30 October 2026: Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR 45), Hobart, Australia

19 October - 20 November 2026: Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf Sixty-eighth session, New York, USA

9-20 November 2026: COP31 Climate Conference , Antalya, Türkiye

11-12 November 2026: 25th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans (Regional Seas), London, United Kingdom

13-18 November 2026: 8th International Marine Conservation Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland

16-20 November 2026: First International Conference of the Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC), Geneva, Switzerland

17-20 November 2026: World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Bruges, Belgium

30 November - 3 December 2026: 85th session of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee, London, UK

2 – 4 December 2026: 2026 UN Water Conference, United Arab Emirates

6-10 December 2027: UN Environment Programme Assembly (UNEA8), Nairobi, Kenya

11-22 January 2027: First BBNJ Conference of the Parties, New York, USA

13-24 March 2027: INC 5.4, part 4 of the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an internationally binding instrument on plastic pollution

15 – 19 March 2027: 68th meeting of the Standing Committee to the Convention on Wetlands, Gland, Switzerland

21 – 25 March 2027: 11th World Water Forum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 

22-26 March 2027: 6th International Congress on Marine Protected Areas (IMPAC 6)

19 – 30 April 2027: Basel Convention COP18, Rotterdam Convention COP13, and Stockholm Convention COP13, Panama City, Panama

7 – 17 June 2027: Bonn Climate Change Conference, Bonn, Germany

6 – 10 September 2027: Minamata Convention (COP7), Geneva, Switzerland

7 – 21 September 2027: UNGA 82, New York, USA  

8 – 19 November 2027: UNFCCC COP32, Antalya, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

22 – 26 November 2027: 69th meeting of the Standing Committee to the Convention on Wetlands, Gland, Switzerland

6 – 10 December 2027: UN Environment Assembly 8, Nairobi, Kenya