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 Regional Workshops
The first round of five regional workshops in the third cycle aim to inform the scoping of the next assessment(s), raise awareness and provide information, receive feedback, and generate interest from the regional scientific community.
The first round of regional workshops are as follows:
Belitung, Indonesia, from 13 to 15 December 2022
- Notification
- Agenda
- Timetable
- Information for participants
- Pre-workshop survey for participants
- Post-workshop survey for participants
- Presentations of the Belitung workshop
- Summary of discussions
The Hague, The Netherlands, from 28 to 30 November 2022
- Notification
- Agenda
- Timetable
- Information for participants
- Pre-workshop survey for participants
- Post-workshop survey for participants
- Presentations of the The Hague workshop
- Summary of discussions
Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 28 to 30 September 2022
- Notification
- Agenda
- Timetable
- Information for participants
- Pre-workshop survey for participants
- Post-workshop survey for participants
- Presentations of the Buenos Aires Workshop
- Summary of discussions
Kingston, Jamaica, from 5 to 14 September 2022
- Notification
- Concept note for the third cycle of the Regular Process
- Agenda
- Workshop I: Ocean Governance and the Science-Policy Interface for the Wider Caribbean (Monday, 5 September - Friday, 9 September 2022)
- Workshop II: Scoping of the next assessment(s) of the United Nations Regular Process for the North Pacific and the Wider Caribbean (Monday, 12 September - Wednesday, 14 September 2022)
- Information for participants
- Pre-workshop survey for participants (Completed)
- Post-workshop survey for participants (Completed)
- Presentations of the Kingston workshop
- Summary of discussions of Workshop II
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from 19 to 27 July 2022
