Third World Ocean Assessment (WOA III)

The Third World Ocean Assessment (WOA III) is one of the outputs of the third cycle of the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the States of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects. 

The 18th meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole has been convened in accordance with the programme of work for the period 2021 to 2025 for the third cycle of the Regular Process. This programme of work was adopted by the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process during its thirteenth meeting in October 2020 and endorsed by the General Assembly through its resolution 75/239 of 31 December 2020 on “Oceans and the law of the sea”. The 18th meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole held on 27 March 2023 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York endorsed the following documents: