We are celebrating our first 20 years!
Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty
Supporting the activities of the Antarctic Treaty System.
September 1st marks twenty years since the establishment of the Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Over the last twenty years, the Secretariat has remained a small, dynamic and robust organization providing support to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) and the Comittee for Environmental Protection, and making available numerous tools for the intersessional work.
To mark the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the Secretariat created a webpage outlining its work, based on a Secretariat Paper presented at ATCM 46 in Kochi, India in May 2024.
Read more in our news section.