Resilient Prosperity for People and Planet: A Systems Approach to Ocean Finance, SDG Media Zone - 2025 UN Ocean Conference.
The ocean is central to climate regulation, biodiversity, and food security— yet remains one of the most underfinanced components of the SDGs, with a $150 billion annual gap for SDG14. Recognising the ocean as a global common good and natural capital asset, this discussion will explore how public development banks, regional blocs, and new multilateral institutions can reimagine finance to address this systemic failure. Building on the Finance in Common Ocean Coalition's joint declaration, we will explore how financing frameworks must evolve from fragmented, project-level funding to systemic, mission-oriented investment strategies that integrate ocean ecosystems into macroeconomic and financial decision-making.
Speakers:
- H.E. Didacus Jules, Director General, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
- Representative, Finance in Common Oceans Coalition (e.g., EIB, AFD, or CDC Group as part of FiCS) TBC
Moderator:
H.E. Dr. Hyginus "Gene" Leon, Executive Director, Development Bank for Resilient Prosperity (DBRP); and Ambassador at Large, Saint Lucia
Join us during the 2025 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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