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UN Environment Event
The Third Webinar on Sargassum
22 September 2020
- Overview
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-rich Saharan dust on the ocean.
Date: 22nd September 2020
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Nairobi Time
For more information please visit: https://www.unep.org/events/webinar/sargassum-challenges-responses-and-collaboration-west-africa
Recording:
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CEP was established in 1981 as part of the Regional Seas Programme in recognition of the importance and value of the Wider Caribbean Region’s fragile and vulnerable coastal and marine ecosystems including endemic plants and animals.