The 61st meeting of the Inter-Organization Coordinating Committee (IOCC) of the IOMC was held on 19 March 2024, hosted by UNIDO in Vienna. This was followed by a “special session” on 20-21 March 2024 to consider issues related to IOMC actions for GFC implementation and IOMC operations. Mr. Johannes Heister (World Bank) chaired the meetings. The IOCC meeting discussed, inter alia, strategic interests of POs and IOMC collectively including coordination issues, GFC implementation, the negotiations for a science-policy panel (SPP) and for an international instrument on plastic pollution, the IOMC Toolbox, as well as an update of the work of IOMC mercury group.