UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS | INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY
Dates |
Meeting |
27 January to
13 March 2020 |
Commission
on the Limits of the Continental Shelf Fifty-second
session
|
4 to 5 February
2020 |
Preparatory meeting UN Ocean Conference |
23 March to 3
April 2020 |
Intergovernmental Conference on an
international legally binding instrument under the
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the
conservation and sustainable use of marine biological
diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction -
Fourth session |
19 to 21 May
2020 |
Informal Consultations of States Parties to the UN Fish Stocks Agreement (ICSP/15): 15th round Following consultations amongst States, the fifteenth round of Informal Consultations of States Parties to the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement has been postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
2 to 6 June
2020 |
UN Ocean Conference |
8 June 2020 |
World Oceans Day |
1 to 11 June
2020 |
UNFCCC fifty-second session of the
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice |
6 July 2020 (opening) |
Meeting of States Parties to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 30th meeting In light of the situation concerning COVID-19, the States Parties of the Convention have endorsed a proposal to postpone the thirtieth Meeting of States Parties. The in-person plenary elections were held from 24 to 26 August at the GA Hall. Deliberations through virtual platforms, written exchanges and in person will be held from 30 Octobre to 9 December. Schedule/details on virtual meetings has been sent to delegates. For more information, please contact doalos@un.org. |
22 to 26 June
2020 |
United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Ocean and the Law of the Sea 21st meeting Following a decision by the Co-Chairs of the Informal Consultative process forwarded to all Member States by a letter from the President of the General Assembly dated 1 May 2020, the twenty-first meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Ocean and the Law of the Sea has been postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
6 July to 21
August 2020 |
Commission
on the Limits of the Continental Shelf
Fifty-third session |
5 to 6 August
2020 |
Workshop to discuss
the implementation of paragraphs 113, 117 and 119 to 124
of resolution 64/72, paragraphs 121, 126, 129, 130 and
132 to 134 of resolution 66/68 and paragraphs 156, 171,
175, 177 to 188 and 219 of resolution 71/123on
sustainable fisheries, addressing the impacts of bottom
fishing on vulnerable marine ecosystems and the
long-term sustainability of deep-sea fish stocks |
9 and 10 Sept
2020 |
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 13th meeting(by correspondence) |
7 Oct to 24 Nov
2020 |
Commission
on the Limits of the Continental Shelf |
6 November 2020
(one day) |
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 14th meeting |
Tentative
schedule for the informal consultations on the draft resolutions
under agenda item
Oceans and the law of the sea (Seventy-fifth session, 2020)
(a) Oceans and the law of the sea |
(b) Sustainable fisheries |
First
round
Second
round |
9 to 17 November 2020 (seven days)In light of the situation concerning COVID-19, it had been agreed by the Coordinator and delegates that the informal consultations will be taken up through correspondence and informal virtual meetings if necessary. |
INTERNATIONAL
SEABED
AUTHORITY
Kingston, Jamaica
The International
Seabed Authority (ISA) announced that the second part of the 26th
session of ISA initially scheduled to be held in July 2020 will be
postponed, due to the COVID-19 epidemic. The session will instead take
place in a reduced format in Kingston, Jamaica from 7 to 16 October
2020, with meetings of some of the technical bodies convened remotely
starting from July 2020. For more info, please visit: https://www.isa.org.jm/news/twenty-sixth-session-international-seabed-authority-part-2-postponed-october-2020
Update as of 2 Sept ISA/EOSG/2020/125 - the dates scheduled in October 2020 will be rescheduled to a later date in 2020, most likely by early December 2020.
Dates |
Meeting |
17 to 21
February 2020 |
Council (26th
session) first part |
* Meetings will be held in New York, unless otherwise stated.