SEA of Solutions 2025

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asian (UNEP-COBSEA) are jointly organizing the 2025 SEA of Solutions Forum in Bangkok from 16 to 17 December 2025. This is the 6th edition of the SEA of Solutions Forum, which builds on longstanding collaboration between UNEP ROAP and UNEP COBSEA in delivering solutions on plastics and marine litter in the East Asian Seas region.  

SEA of Solutions Forum 2025 Session Overview 

Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93126848728?pwd=Q4CT7vaQ87raCv9bdZWXOjb3bgc4YQ.1

• Meeting ID: 931 2684 8728
• Passcode: 020999

SEA of Solutions Forum 2025 Session Posters

• Registered participants were notified before 5 December on successful registration for the SEA of Solutions 2025 Forum (16-17 December)
• Kindly note that events on 15 December is by invitation only. 

Background 

The 2025 SEA of Solutions Forum aims to bring together stakeholders, including government representatives, experts, the private sector and youth, to tackle plastic pollution and marine litter. The Forum will include plenaries, thematic sessions and partnership dialogues to highlight challenges and scalable solutions.

Since 2019, SEA of Solutions has provided a platform for sharing innovative solutions and sharing knowledge to find solutions to end plastic pollution. It has been a collaborative effort between various divisions in UNEP and COBSEA, leveraging partnerships across the Asia-Pacific.  Previous editions have focused on topics such as plastic-free trade, the impact of COVID-19, policy exploration, etc. 

This year's SEA of Solutions aims to follow up on key discussions on how to support countries in the region. Under the slogan “Partnerships and Solutions for Plastic Pollution” this forum brings together stakeholders, including government representatives, experts, the private sector and youth to tackle plastic pollution and marine litter. 

Please direct any questions to ana.kumarasamy@un.org

UNEP COBSEA is a regional intergovernmental mechanism that was established in 1981 which brings together nine participating countries of the East Asian Seas region – Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam – in protect and sustainably managing the marine environment.  In 2019, COBSEA’s 24th Intergovernmental Meeting revised and adopted the COBSEA Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter (RAP MALI).

UNEP is the United Nations system’s designated entity for addressing environmental issues at the global and regional levels. Under the UNEP Plastics Initiative, UNEP consolidates all UNEP's plastic-related projects and results into a unified programme that leads and implements a system-wide transformation towards a safe circular economy of plastics. The Initiative promotes upstream innovation and solutions that focus on reducing plastic production and increasing reuse, rather than relying solely on recycling, aiming to activate and scale up global, regional, and national actions to tackle plastic pollution. Currently, there are 11 ongoing projects in 28 countries tackling plastic pollution.