Cartagena Convention

The Cartagena Convention is the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, the UNEP Regional Seas treaty for the Caribbean. Adopted in Cartagena, Colombia on 24 March 1983, it entered into force on 11 October 1986 and is served by a secretariat in Kingston, Jamaica. It is supported by three protocols: Oil Spills, Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW), and Land-Based Sources of marine pollution (LBS). The Convention binds Wider Caribbean states to cooperate on pollution control, biodiversity protection, and coastal management across a shared sea.