Ocean Finance, SDG Media Zone - 2025 UN Ocean Conference.

Conversation on enabling investment in a sustainable ocean economy.

This panel will explore how to turn today's ocean challenges—such as over-exploitation, pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change—into opportunities for inclusive, ocean-positive development. Speakers will discuss the enabling conditions, partnerships, and financial innovations needed to scale up investment in a sustainable ocean economy. The session will also highlight successful models, tools, and approaches that are making a real impact, offering practical takeaways for scaling public and private finance to protect the ocean and ensure no one is left behind.

Speakers:

• Hon. Minister Flavien Joubert, Minister for Agriculture, Climate Change & Environment, Seychelles
• Chip Cunliffe, Senior Director, Innovation & Pipeline Development, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance
• Francine Pickup, UNDP Delegation Lead, and Deputy Director, UNDP Bureau of Policy and Programme Support
• Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Executive Director, UN Capital Development Fund

Moderator: Thede Ruest, Project Manager and Technical Lead, UNDP Sustainable Finance Hub

Join us during the 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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