The second meeting of the Sustainable Ocean Initiative (SOI) Global Dialogue with Regional Seas Organizations (RSOs) and Regional Fishery Bodies (RFBs) will take place in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 10-13 April 2018.

This meeting will be convened by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in collaboration with the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries of the Republic of Korea, from 10-13 April 2018 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The organization of the meeting is financially supported by the Governments of the Republic of Korea, Japan and Sweden, and the European Union.

The first meeting of the SOI Global Dialogue was jointly convened by the CBD Secretariat and the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Republic of Korea, in Seoul from 26-29 September 2016, in collaboration with UN Environment and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, as well as many other international and Korean partner organizations. Building on the success of this first meeting, the second meeting will focus on identifying concrete ways and means to further enhance cross-sectoral cooperation at the regional scale, in particular between RSOs and RFBs, together with various other regional initiatives, with a view to accelerating national and regional efforts towards the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and Sustainable Development Goals related to marine biodiversity.