Ocean Action Panel 10: Enhancing the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in the UNCLOS - 2025 UN Ocean Conference.
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.
Guiding questions:
(a) How can the implementation of international law as reflected in the Convention contribute to the scaling up of ocean action to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 14?
(b) How can cross-sectoral cooperation and coordination be mobilized to support the effective implementation of international law as reflected in the Convention?
(c) How can United Nations system entities further support Member States in their efforts to meet their obligations under the Convention and related instruments?
(d) How can interlinkages and synergies among relevant legal instruments be leveraged to support the effective implementation of international law as reflected in the Convention?
(e) What are the most pressing capacity and resource needs with respect to enabling adherence to and the implementation of the Convention and related instruments, and how can innovative capacity-building contribute to meeting these needs?
(f) How can new technologies and science-based decision-making contribute to enhancing the implementation of international law as reflected in the Convention?
(g) How can inclusive participation in ocean-related processes and the active engagement of all relevant stakeholders, including the most vulnerable, most effectively contribute to the objective of conserving and sustainably using the ocean and its resources?
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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.View less
Related Sites and Documents
Programme and Concept paper (pdf).
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