Platform
Knowledge and
resource library
Essential knowledge and guidance on marine litter in one place: legislation and regulation, international conventions, technical guidelines and policy documents.
Example selection: the documents below are public reference material chosen for the prototype; the library is completed with the platform's own guidance at launch.
Guidelines and technical resources
Best Practice Framework for the Management of Fishing Gear
Guidance for fisheries, ports and authorities on preventing gear loss, reporting and retrieving abandoned gear safely, and routing recovered material to recycling.
Download PDFPDFGlobal Ghost Gear Initiative2021UNEP/IOC Guidelines on Survey and Monitoring of Marine Litter
Field methods for recording beach, floating and seabed litter in a standard format: survey design, sampling, count sheets and the classification categories used to compare sites.
Go to sourceWebUNEP / IOC-UNESCO2009
Never miss a new document
A monthly digest of new guidance documents, legislation and policy papers.
Addresses are stored for the launch mailing list. The first update goes out at the COP31 launch.