Ocean Action Panel 3 : Mobilizing finance for ocean actions in the support of SDG14 - 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:
- What "win-win-win" strategies can we adopt to ensure that a robust, growing ocean economy benefits people, businesses that are dependent on the ocean, and ocean health?
- Why is SDG14 the least funded SDG? What can we do to eliminate or significantly reduce the gap?
- How can public finance be used to unlock and de-risk private investments in ocean-positive outcomes?
- Can we establish a new global ocean finance platform that will serve as a centralized hub to bring coherence to ocean finance and raise new sources of capital, including solidarity levies, user fees, and payments for ecosystem services, while providing grants and flexible, easily accessible financing and de-risking for existing and new projects?
- Can debt-for-nature swaps be scaled to help governments free up debt obligations and support sustainable ocean investments? What lessons can be learned from existing debt for-nature swaps?
- In the current political and fiscal context, how can countries transition away from harmful subsidies and incentivize activities, including innovative finance approaches, which will promote the sustainable use of the ocean?
- What tools are available (e.g., National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans, Biodiversity Finance Plans, Sustainable Ocean Plans, etc.) to help countries establish effective enabling environments to accelerate the "blue transition"? Are there examples of policy changes that are making a difference at the national or local level?
- How can the ocean finance community build pipelines of investable, sustainable, and inclusive ocean projects? What approaches (e.g., blended finance, concessional finance, technical assistance, advisory services, incubators, accelerators, etc.) have been successful in developing these projects?
- Which best practices have been successful in unlocking the potential of a sustainable and inclusive ocean economy?
- How can we ensure that developing countries, in particular, have access to the science, data, and technology they need to help drive the transition to a sustainable ocean economy?
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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