CBCGDF Ocean and Wetlands Working Group Actively Participates in the 2025 UN Ocean Conference Online Stakeholder Consultation

In preparation for the 2025 UN Ocean Conference, which will be held in Nice, France from 9 – 13 June 2025, the Secretary-General of the Conference will prepare, in consultation with the co-hosts of the Conference, concept papers for each of the themes of the Ocean Action panels. On August 16, 2024, the Ocean and Wetlands Working Group of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) submitted suggestions on the concept paper.

 


The high-level 2025 United Nations Conference aims to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development, and to accelerate action and mobilize all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean. Among the ten final themes of the Ocean Action Panels, CBCGDF Ocean and Wetlands Working Group provided substantive input in the field of Conserving, sustainably managing and restoring marine and coastal ecosystems including deep-sea ecosystems; Preventing and significantly reducing marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities; and Leveraging Ocean, climate and biodiversity interlinkages.

 

CBCGDF Ocean and Wetlands Working Group has been actively putting forward suggestions for scientific decision-making and actively promote the protection of ocean connectivity. It has participated in many global conferences related to marine governance to promote global marine environmental governance and marine biodiversity conservation, such as UN Ocean Conference, 2024 Ocean Decade Conference, the Intergovernmental Conference on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, and the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4), meanwhile holding a series of side events.

 

Original Chinese Article: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/45NSoI43nhPz1hDrSetaqw

Translator: Sara

Checked by: Richard

Editor: Sara    

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