Strategic Plan for Marine Litter Management in the Wider caribbean Region

Abstract

The Global Partnership of Marine Litter (GPML) is a multi-stakeholder partnership that provides a unique mechanism to bring together all actors working on marine litter to share knowledge and experience and to advance solutions to this global issue. The Partnership was launched at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20 in June 2012 in response to a request by Governments in the Manila Declaration. The GPML Caribbean Node was formed in 2016 and represents a partnership for national and regional organizations, governments, research, and technical agencies and individuals, that work together to reduce the quantity and impact of marine litter in coastal zones of the Wider Caribbean Region.