ocean meetings - ongoing and upcoming

7 February 2026: UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC5.3), Geneva, Switzerland

22 - 27 February 2026: Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) 2026, Glasgow, Scotland

23 February - 6 March 2026: International Seabed Authority Legal and Technical Commission, Kingston, Jamaica

2-6 March: European Ocean Days, Brussels, Belgium

9 - 20 March 2026: ISA Assembly and Council Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica

23 - 29 March 2026: 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species, Campo Grande, Brazil

23 March - 2 April 2026: BBNJ PrepCom3, New York, USA

7 April - 1 May 2026: TBTI World Congress, Hua Hin, Thailand

11 - 21 May 2026: Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM 48 - CEP 28), Hiroshima, Japan

27 April - 1 May 2026: Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), London, UK

28- 29 April 2026: Phase Out Fossil Fuels meeting, Santa Marta, Colombia

3-4 June 2026: Island States Ocean Summit, Tokyo, Japan

16-18 June 2026: Our Ocean Conference, Mombasa, Kenya

June 2026: Meeting of States Parties to UNCLOS, New York, USA

June 2026: Ocean Impact Summit, Indonesia (date to be confirmed)

29 June - 10 July 2026: International Seabed Authority Legal and Technical Commission, Kingston, Jamaica

13 - 31 July 2026: ISA Assembly and Council Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica.

4 - 11 September 2026: SSF Summit and COFI, Rome, Italy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First BBNJ Conference of the Parties (late 2026, location to be confirmed)

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