ocean meetings - ongoing and upcoming

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

24 March 2025: 16th meeting of the Monaco Blue Initiative to be held in Monaco.

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

14-25 April 2025: first session of the 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.

14 - 16 May 2025: Informal Consultations of States Parties to the UN Fish Stocks Agreement (ICSP/18): eighteenth round, New York, USA.

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.

16 - 20 June 2025: United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Ocean and the Law of the Sea, Capacity building and the transfer of marine technology: New developments, approaches and challenges – 25th meeting, New York, USA.

23 - 27 June 2025: Meeting of States Parties to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea – 35th meeting, New York, USA.

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.

7 July - 8 August 2025: Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, Sixty-fourth session, New York, USA.

9-12 July 2025: Marine Protected Areas in Marine Spatial Planning Conference, Bodø, Norway.

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

5-14 August 2025: INC 5.2 will take place in Geneva, Switzerland

18-29 August 2025: second session of the 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

24 September 2025: Green Shipping Industry Day, Brussels, Belgium.

9 - 10 October 2025: Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects – 22nd meeting, New York, USA.

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.

6-7 November 2025: Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects – 23rd meeting, New York, USA.

10 - 21 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.

11-13 November 2025: 13th World Congress of Ocean (WCO), Osaka, Japan.

24 November - 5 December 2025: Twentieth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

8-12 Deccember 2025: United Nations Environment Assembly, UNEA 7, Nairobi, Kenya.

9 December 2025: General Assembly consideration of the agenda item on oceans and the law of the sea, New York, USA.

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