Ocean Action Panel 6: Advancing sustainable ocean-based economies, sustainable maritime transport and coastal community resilience leaving no one behind - 2025 UN Ocean Conference.
Guiding questions:
- How can governments integrate sustainable ocean-based economic initiatives within their ocean governance legal and institutional frameworks?
- How can developing countries, particularly SIDS and LDCs, access resources, financing, and technologies needed for a sustainable and resilient ocean economy including maritime transport, fisheries and aquaculture, renewable offshore energy, and maritime and coastal tourism?
- How can public-private partnerships and sustainable finance tools be scaled to meet the funding needs of the ocean economy decarbonization and climate adaptation and resiliencebuilding?
- What capacity-building programs and training initiatives are needed to ensure the maritime transport sector and fisheries and aquaculture are sustainable and resilient and aligned with SDG?
- What are the priority areas for research and development to advance sustainable and resilient maritime transport, fisheries and aquaculture?
- How can the labour and social dimension be better included by all stakeholders when addressing current and future maritime challenges?
- How can UN-OCEANS and its member agencies better support related efforts by SIDS and other vulnerable developing countries?
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.
RelatedDocuments: Programme and Concept paper (pdf)
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.
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