ACP MEAS 3 Monthly Information Digest - Volume 3 Issue 2 February 2023

This Month's Highlight • Historic UN agreement on protecting marine biodiversity in international waters. • Women, Climate and Nature: Regenerative Seascapes project in coastal region of the West Indian Ocean to mitigate the impact of climate change • Nature-based solutions in cities to become more resilient to climate change • Roundtables event hosted by UK government on increasing private finance for the implementation of Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework • One Forest Summit in Gabon for the preservation and sustainable management of rainforests • GEF report on biodiversity-positive carbon credits and nature certificates • IISD Policy Brief for a strong framework for sound chemicals management • Gabon, Jamaica, and Sri Lanka launch a USD 14 million joint UNEP-GEF project to eliminate mercury from skin lightening products • Organization of Cook Islands Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures workshop • Launch of mobile tool Kobo Toolbox for field collection of environment data in Samoa • Abidjan Convention’s activities to operationalize Marine Protected Areas in Benin • Cartagena Convention’s activities for MARPOL implementation in the Dominican Republic • Approval of St. Lucia’s Marine Litter Management Action Plan (ML-MAP), developed with support from ACP MEAs 3 and UNEP