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1st Coast Guard Global Summit
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Date: September 12-14, 2017
Place： Tokyo, Japan
Participants: 38 coast guard agencies and related organizations, from 34 countries
Outcome： In this Summit meeting, the advanced successful experiences regarding the challenges the world is facing were shared and discussed in 3 themes, "maritime safety and marine environment protection", "maritime security", and "capacity building." the Heads recognized the importance of enhancing dialogue and cooperation among the Coastguards in the world in order to overcome maritime challenges that the world is facing.
Coast Guard Global Summit - 1st Working Level Meeting
Date: November 27-29, 2018
Place： Tokyo, Japan
Participants: 66 coast guard agencies and related organizations, from 58 countries
Outcome： the Heads recognized the importance of enhancing dialogue and cooperation among the Coastguards in the world in order to overcome maritime challenges that the world is facing.
2nd Coast Guard Global Summit
Date: November 19-22, 2019
Place： Tokyo, Japan
Participants: 84 coast guard agencies and related organizations, from 75 countries
Outcome：①The heads agreed that the tight bond among coast guard agencies linked one another via sea is very important and that this summit is valuable as a platform of strengthening collaboration and cooperation. Also, the Meeting Guideline of the Coast Guard Global Summit was decided. ②Advanced cases in participant countries were shared. The heads agreed to starting efforts to share the useful information among the participant nations and drew up chairperson's summary. Also, the heads agreed to holding next coast guard working level meeting in Tokyo. ③The heads agreed that efforts should be made to foster human resources that can respond to large-scale natural disasters, drug-related crimes, global problems related to maritime safety.
Coast Guard Global Summit - 2nd Working Level Meeting
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Date: November 16-18, 2021
Place： Tokyo, Japan (Online)
Participants: 88 Countries and 10 Organizations
Outcome：
(1) Meeting Guidelines
Japan proposed some amendments to the Meeting Guidelines developed at the 2nd CGGS in 2019, including additional provisions allowing for meetings to be held online and in hybrid formats, which was supported to report the final amendment to the 3rd CGGS in 2022.
(2) Pioneer Activities
Participants shared presentations on following topics and exchanged views to enhance mutual capabilities.
- Maritime Domain Awareness (Japan, EMSA, FRONTEX)
- Countermeasures for COVID-19 (EFCA, Italy)
- Diversity in the Maritime Industry (Peru, Turkey, United Kingdom)
(3) Coast Guard Global Human Resources Development (CGGHRD)
Japan conducted two Pilot Programs for CGGHRD which were held online in March and October 2021 under the idea of “New Educational Opportunity”. In the meeting, the secretariat reported the outline of the programs and reviewed. Participants reaffirmed the effectiveness of the program and supported to continue the program with the cooperation of participants. It was also supported that the Core Members is to discuss how to use of the information sharing website for Coast Guard Global Human Resources Development for the future task.
(4) Information Sharing Method
The secretariat reported the past discussions on creation of the CGGS website so far since CGGS2 and explained the future update schedule. Members supported the schedule moving on to the full scale operation at the 3rd CGGS.
Online Symposium
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Date: Novemver 29, 2022
Place： Tokyo, Japan (Online)
Participants: 40 Countries and 6 Organizations
Outcome：
The symposium featured a keynote speech by the U.S. Coast Guard and a panel discussion by the JCG, the Hellenic Coast Guard, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). In addition to confirming the role that CGGS has fulfilled to date, participants discussed ways to effectively utilize this framework to strengthen networks among coast guard agencies around the world.
3rd Coast Guard Global Summit
©2023 Japan Coast Guard.
Date: October 30 - November 1, 2023
Place： Tokyo, Japan
Participants: 96 coast guard agencies and related organizations, from 86 countries
Outcome：
(1)Meeting Guidelines
In order to make this summit a more functional and sustainable framework, the heads supported a proposal to amend the meeting guidelines, including contents of allowing meetings to be held online or in a hybrid format and clarifying roles and responsibilities of host and how to determine the venue, etc..
(2)Information Sharing Method
The website, which has been developed to promote information sharing and capacity building among the world’s coast guard agencies by sharing advanced best practices, experiences, and useful information for human resource development in each country, was supported and will be launched officially.
(3)Coast Guard Global Human Resource Development
Regarding the online program (keynote speeches and panel discussions that can be attended by officers of the world’s coast guard agencies) that have been implemented under the idea of “New Educational Opportunity”, the status of progress and evaluation were reported. The heads confirmed its effectiveness and supported to continue to implement the program while exploring methods with higher educational effectiveness such as requesting for participation of the experts of education belonging to academies and educational institutes of coast guard agencies. In addition, it was also supported utilization of the above-mentioned dedicated website as a platform to promote human resource development by uploading information of educational institutions and academies of coast guard agencies and enhancing its contents.
(4) Pioneer Activities
Based on subtitle of “How to utilize the Unmanned/Autonomous Ships/its technologies for Coast Guard Missions”, International Maritime Organization gave a presentation about the progress of discussions on regulating autonomous ships, and The Nippon Foundation gave a presentation about the outline of the fully autonomous ship project “MEGURI2040”. Also, advanced activities were shared from Australia, France, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States. As best practice, there were presentations from Italy on lessons learned from COVID-19 and preparedness for the next pandemic, from Türkiye on combating against irregular migration at sea, and from the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia on enhancing cooperation to suppress piracy and sea robbery against ships.
【Chairperson’s summary】
In summing up the above discussions, the heads welcomed the further development of this summit as a global and useful platform with more agencies participating, and affirmed the need for this framework to continue making it functional effectively as a platform for cooperation among coast guards at a global scale. The heads also recognized the importance of deepening the understanding of shared principles of conducts in the maritime sector and enhancing the coast guard capacity of the entire world in order for the Coast Guards as ”the first responders and front-line actors” to overcome challenges that world is facing and hand over the “Peaceful, Beautiful and Bountiful Seas” to the next generation.
Coast Guard Global Summit - 3rd Working Level Meeting
Date: October 23-24, 2024
Place： Rome, Italy (Online)
Participants: Approximately 70 coast guard agencies and related organizations
Outcome：
(1) The 4th CGGS in 2025 and agenda
The Italian Coast Guard (ITCG) announced that the 4th CGGS would be held on 11 and 12 September 2025 in Rome, Italy. The meeting had the presentation of important topics made by various delegation:
- Health of the ocean and climate change
- Artificial intelligence and Maritime domain awareness
- No carbon fuel units
- Law enforcement
The participants supported to address all the topics as agenda of CGGS4.
(2) Information Sharing Method
The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) explained the updates of the CGGS website and established the foundation for further activation of the website.
(3) Meeting guidelines for future hosts
The participants reviewed the meeting guidelines. The host of CGGS5 will be officially decided at CGGS4.
(4) Coast Guard Global Human Resource Development
JCG explained the "Three-year Plan" for the Online Program, and the plan was supported by the participants.
