UN Ocean Conference in Nice: Stark warnings on ocean conservation
- The international ocean-focused summit’s third edition commenced on Monday, 9 June 2025, in Nice, France, with France and Costa Rica serving as co-hosts.
- The conference builds on the February 2025 Honiara Summit on SDG 14.4, which advanced science, regional cooperation, and sustainable fisheries management.
- It convenes world leaders, scientists, Indigenous groups, and civil society to accelerate ocean conservation solutions on climate resilience, biodiversity, and fisheries.
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “Poisoning the ocean poisons ourselves,” urging decisive commitments while noting 134 BBNJ signatories and a 16 zettajoule ocean heat increase.
- The conference aims to adopt the Nice Ocean Action Plan to expand marine protection, mobilize sustainable finance, and empower vulnerable communities amid rising ocean threats.
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Visitors to the UN Ocean Conference in Nice can play with the Digital Twin Ocean. “The consequences of decisions taken at these meetings are not immediately visible. We can fill that gap.”
Our survival depends on the health of the oceans: they produce most of the oxygen we breathe, they regulate the climate and they feed us. But the oceans are getting worse and worse. They are better protected, that's what the UN Ocean Conference in Nice is all about.
It is expected that the United Nations Conference held these days in Nice, France, will generate concrete commitments to accelerate the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans. Read
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