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Summary: Currently, more than 100,000 chemical substances are used in our daily lives and industries. Many of these chemicals eventually find their way into estuaries through various pathways such as rivers, surface runoff, and partially treated wastewater discharged from treatment plants. There is a lack of information available on the occurrence and environmental risks of various contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in urbanized estuaries, particularly in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and Oceania coastal areas. Hence, the Global Estuaries Monitoring (GEM) Programme has been launched under the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) with a view to developing a global monitoring network, revealing the pollution status, and co-creating solutions for making our estuaries cleaner and safer. This workshop will provide a platform for participants to bring together action partners, update the progress of GEM, catalyze new partnerships, and deliberate on collaborative projects and action plans for the next phase of GEM.