Ocean Action Panel 1: Conserving, sustainably managing and restoring marine and coastal ecosystems including deep-sea ecosystems - 2025 UN Ocean Conference.
Guiding Questions:
- What are the most pressing challenges and barriers preventing effective conservation, sustainable management, and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems, including deep-sea ecosystems?
- Do practical examples exist on holistic and integrated policy and management approaches that protects ocean and coastal health while enabling sustainable use of ocean resources for human wellbeing?
- What innovative financing mechanisms can be introduced or expanded to support largescale ecosystem restoration and conservation efforts and nature-based climate solutions?
- What gaps exist in marine and coastal policy frameworks, and how can these gaps be addressed to align actions across sectors and regions?
- How to foster integration of international goals such as those of SDG14, the KMGBF, Paris Agreement and Regional Seas Conventions & Action Plans into Marine Spatial Planning and Integrated Coastal Zone Management?
- How to build upon and expand the experience of Marine Spatial Planning under national jurisdiction to the implementation of measures such as area-based management tools under the BBNJ Agreement?
- How can Indigenous Peoples and local communities be protected and their roles as ocean stewards be promoted?
- How can the Ocean Decade better enhance its role as a catalyst to accelerate global and regional action and mobilize diverse stakeholders for the conservation, sustainable management, and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems?
- How can the multilateral ocean governance, including regarding marine species, can be strengthened in order to ensure the protection of marine and coastal biodiversity?
Our Ocean, Our Future, Our Responsibility - The 2025 UN Ocean Conference will be co-hosted by France and Costa Rica and held in Nice, France, from 9 - 13 June 2025.
World leaders are starting to arrive at Port Lympia (Nice, France) where the 2025 UN Ocean Conference will be co-hosted by France and Costa Rica.
The high-level 2025 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (the 2025 UN Ocean Conference) will be co-hosted by France and Costa Rica and held in Nice, France, from 9 - 13 June 2025.
The overarching theme of the Conference is "Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean". The Conference aims to support further and urgent action to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development and identify further ways and means to support the implementation of SDG 14. It will build on existing instruments to form successful partnerships towards the swift conclusion and effective implementation of ongoing processes that contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of the ocean.
The Conference will involve all relevant stakeholders, bringing together Governments, the United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations, international financial institutions, other interested international bodies, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, academic institutions, the scientific community, the private sector, philanthropic organizations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities and other actors to assess challenges and opportunities relating to, as well as actions taken towards, the implementation of Goal 14.
The Conference will build on the previous UN Ocean Conferences, hosted by Sweden and Fiji in 2017 in New York and by Portugal and Kenya in 2022 in Lisbon.
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