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Eighteenth Conference of Parties to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (COP18), 13-16 October 2025. 

 

  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/3
    Workplan and Budget for the Cartagena Convention Secretariat for the 2026-2027 biennium
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/4

    Decisions of the Eighteenth Conference of Parties to the Cartagena Convention, Thirteenth Meeting of the Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife Protocol, and Seventh Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Land Based Sources of Marine Pollution Protocol
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.51/4

    Report of the Meeting
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  • Information Note

    Information Note
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  • Opening Ceremony Agenda

    Opening Ceremony Agenda

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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.1 (Updated 13 October 2025)

    Provisional List of Documents
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/1

    Provisional Agenda
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/2 (updated 13 October 2025)

    Provisional Annotated Agenda
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.3

    Report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme on the Implementation of the 2023-2025 Work Plan and Budget of the Cartagena Convention Secretariat
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.5

    Towards An Integrated State of Convention Area Report on Marine Pollution and Marine Habitats 
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.6

    Capacity-Building for Sustainable Seas: Supporting the Implementation of the London Protocol through Education and Collaborative Research (SMART-C LC/LP)
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.7/Rev 1

    Communications Strategy of the United Nations Environment Caribbean Environment Programme for 2025-2027
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.8

    Report on Project Tangoroa on Polluting Shipwrecks
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.10

    Cartagena Convention Secretariat (CCS) Resource Mobilization Strategy
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.48/4
    Decisions of the Twentieth Intergovernmental Meeting on the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme and the Seventeenth Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region 
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.45/INF.9

    Analysis of the Functioning of the Cartagena Convention Working Groups and Recommendations for Improvement
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  • UNEP(DEC)/CAR IG.24/CRP.9/Rev.4 (Updated 11 October 2026)

    Final updated Guidelines for the Establishment and Operation of Regional Activity Centres and Regional Activity Networks for the Cartagena Convention.
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.46/5

    Recommendations of the Seventh Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) to the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-based Sources and Activities in the Wider Caribbean.
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.46/INF.4

    Status of Activities for the Sub-Programme on the Assessment and Management of Environmental Pollution (AMEP) 
    for 2023-2025
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.46/INF.5
    Report of Activities for the LBS Regional Activity Centres – IMA (Trinidad and Tobago) and CIMAB (Cuba) for 
    2023-2025
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.46/INF.6
    Report of the Open-Ended Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 2023-2025
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.45/INF.4
    Status Of Activities Of The Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas And Wildlife (SPAW) Sub-Programme For The 2023–2024(2025) Biennium
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.45/INF.5
    Report of the SPAW Regional Activity Centre (SPAW-RAC) in Guadeloupe with regard to RAC operations and budget for the period 2023-2024(2025)
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.48/5
    Report of the Twentieth Intergovernmental Meeting on the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme and Seventeenth Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.48/INF.9
    Recommendations of the 10th Ordinary RAC-REMPEITC-Caribe Steering Committee Meeting.
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.47/3
    Recommendations of the Sixth Meeting of the Contracting Parties (COP) to the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land- Based Sources and Activities (LBS Protocol) in the Wider Caribbean Region
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.47/4
    Report of the Sixth Meeting of the Contracting Parties (COP) to the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities (LBS) in the Wider Caribbean Region
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.41/INF.22 Rev.4

    Draft Regional Strategy for The Protection And Development Of The Wider Caribbean Region 2023-2030
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.11

    Recommendations of the 11th Ordinary RACREMPEITC- Caribe Steering Committee Meeting
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.12

    Proposal for the Cartagena Convention to engage with the International Maritime Organization-Ipieca Global Initiative for the Wider Caribbean Region (GI Caribbean)
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.14

    Proposal for a Cartagena Convention Established Working Group on Sargassum
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.16

    Proposed approach for developing new online reporting system for the Cartagena Convention
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/CRP.1 (Updated 13 October 2025)

    Summary Of Pre-COP Discussions On RAC/RAN Guidelines
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/CRP.2 (Updated 13 October 2025)

    Summary of National Reports
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.24/CRP.9 Rev.4

    Final updated Guidelines for the Establishment and Operation of Regional Activity Centres and Regional Activity Networks for the Cartagena Convention
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.46/3

    Decisions of the Twelfth Meeting of the Contracting Parties (COP) to the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) in the Wider Caribbean Region.
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.46/4 (Updated 14 April 2025)
    Report of the Twelfth Meeting of the Contracting Parties (COP) to the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) in the Wider Caribbean Region-
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.46/INF.8
    Report on the work on the Caribbean Node for Marine Litter Management (2022-2025)
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.45/INF.13

    Updated  Procedure Through Which Contracting Parties Can Propose New Protected Areas To Be Listed As SPAW Sites
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.45/INF.27 Rev.3 (Updated 6 October 2025)

    Draft Cartagena Action Plan on Sargassum Inundation (formerly STAC Sargassum Working Group Updated Action Plan Proposal
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.44/3

    DECISIONS OF THE MEETING - Eleventh Meeting of the Contracting Parties (COP) to the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) in the Wider Caribbean Region (updated Nov. 22, 2021)
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.43/5

    Report of the Tenth Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) of the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) in the Wider Caribbean Region. (last updated 22 August 2023)
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.43/4

    Recommendations of the Eleventh Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) to the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) in the Wider Caribbean Region
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.43/3

    Decisions of the Sixth Meeting of the Contracting Parties (COP) to the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land- Based Sources and Activities (LBS Protocol) in the Wider Caribbean Region  
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.41/6

    REPORT OF THE MEETING: Fifth Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) to the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities in the Wider Caribbean
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.44/5

    Recommendations of the Sixth Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) to the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-based Sources and Activities in the Wider Caribbean.
    EN I ES I FR

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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.41/INF.8

    State of the Convention Area (SOCAR) Report for the Wider Caribbean Region

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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.41/INF.10 Rev.1 (Updated 11 October 2025)

    Regional Nutrient Pollution Reduction Strategy and Action Plan for the Wider Caribbean Region
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  • UNEP (DEPI)/CAR WG.32/INF.9.Rev.3 (Updated 11 October 2026)

    Revised Template for national reporting on the Cartagena Convention and its Protocols
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.41/4a Rev.1

    Strategy and Workplan for LBS RAC IMA 2021- 2026
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.48/3/Rev.2
    Workplan and Budget for the Cartagena
    Convention Secretariat for the 2023-2025 biennium(Updated)  
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.41/4b Rev.1

    Strategy and Work Plan of RAC CIMAB
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.40/INF.3

    An Overview of the Report on the State of Marine Habitats in the Wider Caribbean and the Regional Strategy and Action Plan for the Valuation, Protection and/or Restoration of Key Marine Habitats in the Wider Caribbean 2021 -2030
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  • UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.36 CRP.1

    Amendment to the Financial Rules for the Cartagena Convention

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  • UNEP 2010

    Financial Rules for the Cartagena Convention, its Caribbean Environment Programme and Terms of Reference for the Caribbean Trust Fund

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  • UNEP 2010

    Rules of Procedure for the Meetings of the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (Cartagena Convention)

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  • UNEP, 2012

    Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, Protocol Concerning Cooperation in Combating Oil Spills, Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife and the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land- Based Sources and Activities

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  • Presentation

    Regional Seas Strategic Directions (2026-2029)

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  • Agenda item 5.2 UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.3

    Executive Director's Report

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  • Presentation Agenda Item 6

    Regional Sea's Strategic Directions 2026-2029

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  • Presentation Agenda item 6.1 UNEP (DEPI)/CAR IG.41/INF.22/Rev.3

    Cartagena Convention Draft Regional Strategy 2023-2030

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  • Presentation Agenda Item 6.4 UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.45/INF.9

    Analysis of the functioning of the Working Groups 

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  • Presentation Agenda Item 6.5 UNEP(DEPI)_CAR IG 49_CRP 1 ​

    Summary of Pre-COP Discussion on RAC/RAN Guidelines

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  • Presentation Agenda Item 6.6 UNEP(DEPI)_CAR IG 49_INF 5

    Towards an integrated State of Convention Area Report on marine pollution and marine habitats

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  • Presentation Agenda Item 6.7 UNEP(DEPI)/CAR WG.45/INF.27 Rev.3

    Draft Cartagena Convention Action Plan on Sargassum Inundation

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  • Presentation Agenda Item 6.8 UNEP (DEPI)/CAR IG.49/CRP 2 & UN (DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.16

    Reporting on Implementation of National Obligations under Cartagena Convention (2023-2025)

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  • Presentation Agenda Item 6.9 UNEP(DEPI)/CAR IG.49/INF.11

    RAC REMPEITC Caribe 11th Steering Committee Recommendations Oil Spills Protocol

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  • Presentation Agenda Item 7

    Draft Work Plan & Budget 2026-2027

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  • Presentations Agenda Item 8.1

    Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the SOI Global Dialogue with Regional Seas Organizations and Regional Fishery Bodies-Joe Appiott Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

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  • Presentation Agenda Item 8.2

    Policy Framework for Sustainable Ocean Management, CARICOM-Mr. Kareem Sabir, Deputy Programme Manager

    Sustainable Development, CARICOM Secretariat

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  • Presentation Agenda Item 8.4

    The Malta Manifesto a Call to Action on Potentially Polluting Wrecks

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  • Presentation

    Status and Progress of the Wider Caribbean Ocean Coordination Mechanism (OCM),its Work Programme and Linkages with the Cartagena Convention

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  • Event Photographs
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