From 28 July to 6 August 2025, the Group of Experts for the third cycle of the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including socioeconomic aspects, are convening at the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden hosted by WMU - Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute team to finalize draft 2 of the third World Ocean Assessment.
First Round of Regional Workshops
The first round of five regional workshops completed in 2017 was held to inform the scoping of the assessment, raise awareness and provide information and receive feedback on the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment (the first World Ocean Assessment), and generate interest from the scientific community.
The first round of regional workshops was held as follows:
Lisbon, Portugal, from 14 to 15 September 2017
- Agenda of the Lisbon workshop (pdf)
- Summary of discussions of the Lisbon workshop (pdf)
- Presentations of the Lisbon workshop (pdf)
Auckland, New Zealand, from 18 to 19 October 2017
- Agenda of the Auckland workshop (pdf)
- Summary of discussions of the Auckland workshop (pdf)
- Presentations of the Auckland workshop (pdf)
Camboriú, Brazil, from 14 to 15 November 2017
- Agenda of the Camboriú workshop (pdf)
- Summary of discussions of the Camboriú workshop (pdf)
- Presentations of the Camboriú workshop (pdf)
Bangkok, Thailand, from 29 to 30 November 2017
- Agenda of the Bangkok workshop (pdf)
- Summary of discussions of the Bangkok workshop (pdf)
- Presentations of the Bangkok workshop (pdf)