Can Shipping Save Our Seas?, SDG Media Zone - 2025 UN Ocean Conference.
Conversation on how shipping can catalyse ocean action and solutions for marine plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change.
The maritime sector is the largest ocean-based industry, moving 80% of global trade and generating over $900 billion annually. Despite its scale, it remains overlooked in ocean sustainability efforts. This session will spotlight how this powerful global industry can catalyse ocean action and solutions for marine plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change, exploring concrete success stories and best practices - including the IMO's Global Industry Alliance model. It will highlight specifically how robust international regulations, technological innovation, and real-world collaborations across government, industry, and communities, especially in developing countries, are key to ensuring the transition to a more sustainable blue economy.
Speakers:
Dr. Wendy Watson-Wright, Chair, UN Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection
Simon Doran, Chair, Global Industry Alliance for Marine Biosafety
Gyorgyi Gurban, Head of Project Implementation, International Maritime Organization
Moderator:
Josephine Latu-Sanft, Media and Communications Officer, International Maritime Organization
Join us during the 2025 UN Ocean Conference from June 9-13 and hear about the transformation and solutions needed to accelerate action on the SDGs.
The Conference aims to drive urgent action to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. Ocean science, pollution, fishing, maritime transport, biodiversity, financing and cooperation are among the issues to be tackled.
Organized by the UN Department of Global Communications, the SDG Media Zone takes the conversation out of the policy sphere and into the public discourse through impactful in-depth interviews and conversations on global issues that matter to people everywhere.
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