ocean meetings - ongoing and upcoming

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.

14 – 17 October 2025: IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee meet at the IMO in London, UK.

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 December 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.