The eighth meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects was convened pursuant to paragraph 317 of General Assembly resolution 71/257. The meeting of the Working Group was held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 17 and 18 April 2017 The report is available at: http://undocs.org/A/72/89