2025 UN Ocean Conference:Global Online Stakeholder Consultation - Inputs to Ocean Action Panels Concept Papers Summary Report Now Available | CBCGDF Ocean&Wetlands WG Contributes

The 2025 UN Ocean Conference will be held in Nice, France from 9 – 13 June 2025, aiming 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.

 


The conference stresses importance of engaging “all relevant stakeholders”, and solicit stakeholder’s substantive input to the 10 Ocean Action Panels.

 

Between 26 July and 30 August 2024, UN DESA conducted a global online consultation to compile inputs for the concept papers of the Ocean Action Panels. Information about the consultation was widely disseminated through mailing lists, UN official websites, social media, and a dedicated webpage. More than 400 submissions were received from stakeholders in 90 countries.

 

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.

 


Now on October 16, the Global Online Stakeholder Consultation - Inputs to Ocean Action Panels Concept Papers Summary Report is available. This report provides a comprehensive summary of the key messages from the global online stakeholder consultation, along with relevant links to all submitted responses. For details please find: https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2024-10/2025%20UN%20Ocean%20Conference%20Stakeholder%20Consultation%20Summary%20Report.pdf

 

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/GABF2GKzOYMLp37axRCsHw

Translator: Sara

Checked by: Richard

Editor: Sara    

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