Events

The Prevention of Marine Litter in the Caribbean Sea (PROMAR) Inception Workshop will convene 14th February - 17th February 2023. PROMAR is financed by the Government of Germany through the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) and is managed through a partnership between German NGO adelphi as Lead Implementer and the UNEP Cartagena Convention Secretariat at Implementing Partner.

Mr. Christopher Corbin, Coordinator of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Caribbean Environmental Programme (CEP) – the UN organisation charged with protecting the Caribbean Sea - will be celebrating the milestone achievements of Jamaica’s own White River Fish Sanctuary (WRFS) at Fifth Anniversary event at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, 8th February, 2023 at the WRFS offices in Ocho Rios, St. Ann.

OVERVIEW From 13 – 14 December 2022, the Regional Eutrophication workshop will be held in Kingston Jamaica. Day 1 will consist of presentations and discussions at the office of the United Nations Environment Programme Cartagena Convention Secretariat, located at 14-20 Port Royal Street, Kingston. Activities on day 2 will involve a field trip to the parish of St. Ann.

The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) in collaboration with our Global Environment Facility-funded (GEF) CReW+ project is organising workshops for young persons and the media on Integrated Water and Wastewater Management (IWWM). The workshops will commence on 20th September 2022 and are open to Caribbean youths and journalists residing in GWP-C partner countries or Caribbean GEF CReW+ countries.

The Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation of Jamaica will be hosting a Plastic Free Summer Forum with a panel discussion in the Multipurpose Room at the Bureau of Standards Jamaica on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

The Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA), one of the Regional Activity Centres (RACs) for the Cartagena Convention’s Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities (LBS), will host a three-day workshop on coastal eutrophication and harmful algal blooms. The index of coastal eutrophication is reported under Sustainable Development Goal 14.1.1.

¡Reserva la fecha! Conversatorio en línea Proyectos Piloto de Ciencia Ciudadana de la red colaborativa CaMPAM Fecha: Mayo 4, 2021 Hora: 10:00 Hrs Tiempo del Este 15:00 hrs (GMT) Audiencia: Público en general en la Región del Gran Caribe

At this online webinar, the main conclusions and recommendations of the report ‘Stronger together: The role of regional instruments in strengthening global governance of marine plastic pollution’ will be presented. The report is the final product of a research project which analysed the role of regional instruments in combating marine plastic litter and identified linkages of these regional efforts with a new global agreement on marine plastic litter.

The Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) Sub-Programme of the United Nations Environment Programme Cartagena Convention Secretariat  is pleased to invite you to participate in its webinar entitled “Sargassum Watch (NOAA) and Data collection tools”. This exciting learning event is  part of a series of webinars on citizen science projects in the  Wider Caribbean Region.

Live E.C.C.O. (Environmentally Conscious Consumer Operations) Magazine has partnered with Environmental Solutions Limited (ESL) to create a 5-day virtual summit titled Caribbean Environment Week, under the theme "Bold Steps towards a Sustainable Future". The event will take place November 9 - 13, 2020.

Every year, about 8 million tonnes of plastic waste streams its way into the oceans. The high and rapidly growing quantities of marine plastic litter and microplastics represent a serious environmental and socio-economic issue affecting marine life, ecosystems, health, food security, the tourism sector and livelihoods. The impacts know no boundaries, spanning the national, regional and even international scale.

This webinar will Introduce the UNEP IUCN National Guidance for Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action and the concepts of plastic pollution measurement. Attendees will discover how the Guidance and toolkit have been used to date, with one example from Asia and Africa shared. The sessions will include 30 minutes for audience Q and A. The webinar sessions will be recorded and posted online.

Join the Reef Resilience Network for Wastewater 101, the second webinar in a series on ocean sewage pollution. Christopher Clapp of The Nature Conservancy will provide an introduction to the basics of wastewater, including an overview of terminology, how septic systems work (and fail), and how wastewater is managed, treated, and discharged into our oceans directly and indirectly.

From 24th – 28th August 2020, the German development cooperation agency, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) will host a 5-day virtual conference titled Week on Water for Development (WW4D). The event offers a platform for thematic exchange on water-related topics with more than 25 diverse sessions of multi-faceted stakeholders in international cooperation.

Hear about the latest 2020 coral bleaching outlook and regional commitments and policies addressing climate change.  Learn about new technologies, research on heat tolerance, photogrammetry and meterological models applied to coral reefs. Date: July 28, 2020 Time: 11:00 - 12:30 ET Watch Webinar:

The unprecedented recent invasion of Sargassum seaweed, free-floating brown seaweed that blossoms naturally in the warm waters of the Sargasso Sea, on coastal shores in West Africa and Caribbean shores is being attributed to factors that include warming of the ocean due to global climate change, discharge of nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) from agricultural run-off and wastewater originating from point sources and from major river basins such as the Congo and Amazon Rivers, and the deposition of iron and nutrient-ric

This Workshop aims to discuss the development of an AmeriGEO oil spill information system for the Wider Caribbean. In recent years, the Wider Caribbean region has faced challenges from oil spill incidents including a recent event where oil washed up on thousands of kilometers of Brazil’s coastline from an unknown source and multiple spills originating from Trinidad and Tobago. Illegal dumping of oil-contaminated waste by ships operating in the region is also a common occurrence.

Join GPML-Caribe as they present as part of the 2020 Global Partnership on Marine Litter Webinar Series Topics:

FECHA 22 de Mayo del 2020 / Día Internacional de la Diversidad Biológica Horario: 10:30am tiempo de la CDMX-MÉXICO / Kingston-JAMAICA REGISTRO: https://bit.ly/Peces22 Duración: 1:30 hrs a 2:00 hrs

OBJECTIVE: To orient new and existing users on how to access, use and update the Caribbean Marine Protected Area Management (CaMPAM) geospatial database. TARGET AUDIENCES: Managers of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Caribbean region, marine spatial planners, researchers and the members of the MPA community in general.