New Report by NRDC, OceanCare and HSA for PrepCom: Designing an Effective BBNJ Clearing-House Mechanism: Insights and Guidance Drawn from Comparable Tools. Available here.
18 August, 2025
9 April, 2025
New PrepCom 3 Deep Dives
The following policy briefs provide the latest up-to-date insights into key issues under consideration at the third BBNJ Preparatory Commission. Additional briefings will be shared in the coming weeks.
- PrepCom 3 briefing on the Clearing-House Mechanism.
- PrepCom 3 briefing on the Financial Mechanism.
- BBNJ Financial Mechanism: What Ambition Looks like at PrepCom 3 and Beyond.
- PrepCom 3 briefing on Observer Participation.
- PrepCom 3 briefing on the Scientific and Technical Body.
Past PrepCom Deep Dives
The following policy briefs were made for the first and second BBNJ PrepCom, and may be out of date:
- PrepCom Overview | Available also in French and Portuguese
- Access and Benefit-Sharing Committee | Available in Spanish, French and Portuguese
- Operationalizing the Clearing-House Mechanism | Available also in Spanish, French and Portuguese
- Operationalizing the Clearing-House Mechanism: Supplementary update for PrepCom 2 | Available also in Spanish.
- Capacity Building and Transfer of Marine Technology Committee | Available also in Spanish, French and Portuguese
- Scientific and Technical Body | Available also in Spanish, French and Portuguese
- Operationalizing the Scientific and Technical Body: Supplementary update for PrepCom 2
- Implementation and Compliance Committee | Available also in French and Portuguese
- Finance | Available also in Spanish, French and Portuguese
- Observer Participation | Available also in Spanish.
- Cooperation and Consultation: Operationalizing the BBNJ Agreement
21 May, 2024
High Seas Alliance Recommendations for the Organizational Meeting of the BBNJ Preparatory Commission
Prompt operationalization and implementation of the BBNJ Agreement is essential to address the alarming decline in ocean health and resilience.
27 June, 2023
Preparatory Commissions (PrepComs) are often established after an international Agreement has been signed to prepare for its entry into force.
8 June, 2023
During the BBNJ IGC-5 resumed session in March 2023, the High Seas Treaty Agreement was finalized but not adopted, pending a review to ensure uniform usage of terminology and translation to the six official UN languages.
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