Senior Research Fellow Youna Lyons was invited to speak at the 2nd ASEAN Regional Forum Workshop on Implementing UNCLOS and Other International Instruments to Address Emerging Maritime Issues in Hanoi on 13–14 November 2019. She gave two presentations during the session on degradation of the marine environment and impacts on sustainable management and conservation of marine resources: 

• ‘The building of a regional node for the East Asian Seas and the global partnership on marine litter and microplastic’
• ‘Threatened and endangered species and the management of offshore and other marine activities’