The Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, as the secretariat of the UN Regular Process, solicits the nomination of experts to participate in the workshop on the support of the implementation of the fourth cycle of the Regular Process, including capacity-building components for the South Atlantic (between the African and American coasts) and the Wider Caribbean regions.
The five-day regional workshop will focus on the support of the implementation of the fourth cycle of the Regular Process, including capacity-building components. It will contribute to the scoping exercise and the development of the annotated outline for the fourth World Ocean Assessment (WOA IV). Moreover, the workshop will aim to build regional capacity to engage in the assessment process as well as collect regional-level data, raise awareness of the Regular Process, and encourage contributions from the scientific community to the drafting of the assessment.
The Workshop will be held from 17 to 21 August 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Nominees for the in-person Workshop must register through the respective form by 8 July 2026. The user guide for the Indico portal can be found here.
Selected participants will be notified in due course.