World Oceans Day

   The High-Level Meeting on Sea Level Rise will convene global leaders, experts, and other stakeholders to address the urgent and escalating threat of rising sea levels . This meeting will focus on building common understanding, mobilizing political leadership, and promoting multisectoral and multi-stakeholder collaboration and international cooperation towards the objective of " addressing the threats posed by sea-level rise ". The General Assembly in its decision 78/558 of 1 August 2024 decided to hold a one-day high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly, no later than the last day of the general debate of its eighty-first session, to further consider sea level rise. Participants will work towards developing comprehensive solutions and actionable commitments to combat sea level rise, ensuring a resilient and sustainable future including for small island developing states and low-lying coastal areas. The meeting aims to strengthen international cooperation and coll...

   The Solutions Dialogue on Ocean Action and Leadership at the Climate Summit 2026 is being convened by the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean and the Secretary General's Climate Action Team. Panel 1: Coherence in ocean governance Panel 2: Delivering across the ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus Panel 3: Finance, technology and private-sector solutions The Dialogue on Oceans will bring together political, institutional, scientific and private-sector leaders to consider how existing commitments and solutions can be translated into delivery. It will focus on three connected priorities: strengthening coherence across the international ocean architecture; turning the ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus into integrated action; and mobilising finance, technology and private-sector engagement to move solutions from promising initiatives to scale. Together, these priorities raise a broader question of leadership: how can the international community organise itself to secur...

Press conference by Navid Hanif, Assistant Secretary-General, Department of Economic and Social Affairs; Steven Hill, Assistant Secretary-General, Office of Legal Affairs; and Bill Hare, Scientist and Chief Executive Officer of Climate Analytics; on the launch of the Sea- level Rise Report. Watch the launch of the Sea- level Rise Report - Press Conference! 00:33:30 Press Conferences

The twenty-sixth meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea , in 2026, will, in its deliberations on the Report of the Secretary-General on oceans and the law of the sea, focus its discussions on the theme: Marine ecosystem restoration . Third plenary session Item 6. Issues that could benefit from attention in the future work of the General Assembly on oceans and the law of the sea Item 7. Closing of the meeting 10. The Co-Chairs will close the meeting. Related Sites and Documents:  Website  &  Provisional Agenda . Watch the Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP26)! General Assembly

The twenty-sixth meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, in 2026, will, in its deliberations on the Report of the Secretary-General on oceans and the law of the sea, focus its discussions on the theme: Marine ecosystem restoration. Segment 2 (continued) Enabling and enhancing marine ecosystem restoration through international cooperation and coordination: challenges and opportunities (a) Panel presentations; (b) Discussion. Second plenary session (time permitting) Item 4. Inter-agency cooperation and coordination 7. In accordance with the terms of reference for UN-Oceans adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 68/70, the United Nations Legal Counsel/Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, as the UN-Oceans focal point, represents UN-Oceans at relevant meetings, including those under the Assembly. To ensure transparency and accountability, UN-Oceans, upon request from the Assembly, reports to Member Sta...

The twenty-sixth meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, in 2026, will, in its deliberations on the Report of the Secretary-General on oceans and the law of the sea, focus its discussions on the theme: Marine ecosystem restoration. Segment 2: Enabling and enhancing marine ecosystem restoration through international cooperation and coordination: challenges and opportunities. (a) Panel presentations; (b) Discussion. Related Sites and Documents:  Oceans and the Law of the Sea Website  &  Provisional Agenda . Watch the Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP26)! Live General Assembly