Caricom meets ahead of landmark high seas talks

Cari­com coun­tries are strength­en­ing their re­gion­al prepa­ra­tions ahead of the in­au­gur­al Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties (COP1) to the Agree­ment on Ma­rine Bi­o­log­i­cal Di­ver­si­ty of Ar­eas Be­yond Na­tion­al Ju­ris­dic­tion (BB­NJ Agree­ment), fol­low­ing a re­gion­al work­shop in The Ba­hamas.

The Oc­to­ber meet­ing brought to­geth­er re­gion­al ne­go­tia­tors, tech­ni­cal ex­perts, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Cari­com mem­ber states and in­ter­na­tion­al part­ner or­gan­i­sa­tions to co­or­di­nate the Caribbean's ap­proach to the land­mark in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ment.

The COP1 meet­ing is sched­uled to take place at Unit­ed Na­tions Head­quar­ters in New York from Jan­u­ary 11 to 22, 2027.