Fourth Sargassum Webinar: Sargassum challenges, responses, and collaboration in Caribbean

The fourth webinar in this series will take place on Monday, 30 November 2020 with focus on Caribbean, where by 2018, the mats had grown into the largest macroalgae bloom in recorded history, an 8,850 km long mass extending from the central Atlantic and Caribbean Sea to West Africa and the Gulf of Mexico. Chunks of Sargassum, circulated by ocean currents, now regularly wash ashore in the Caribbean, where they rot on the beaches, giving off a strong, sulfurous stench.  This webinar will contribute to the ‘White paper’ developed in 2019 which serves as a living document and present the most significant and recent research data on the regional situation across the Wider Caribbean Region.

This webinar will feature leading experts from affected countries in the region (Barbados, Guadeloupe, Trinidad & Tobago, Dominican Republic and Mexico) local and international organizations, including the One UN Approach, to share information, build knowledge on the phenomenon, promote best practice and develop ocean governance arrangements in combating the Sargassum phenomenon in the Wider Caribbean Region.

Date: Monday, 30 November 2020

Time: 1700-1900 hours; East African time (UTC+3)

For more information please visit: https://www.unep.org/events/webinar/sargassum-challenges-responses-and-collaboration-caribbean

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