A healthy ocean, a protected climate
From 2-13 June, attention turned to Nice, France, where the 3rd UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) and related Special Events were held. Expectations were high: Costa Rica and France, co-hosts of the Conference, had been advocating since 2022 for it to be a turning point for the protection of the ocean and its governance. The turnout…
Nice, France – Today at the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC), Brazil and France launched a landmark international initiative to dramatically scale up ocean-focused climate action. The Blue NDC Challenge calls on all countries to place the ocean at the heart of their climate plans (Nationally Determined Contributions or NDCs) ahead of COP30 which Brazil will…
From 9 to 13 June 2025, France and Costa Rica will co-host the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, France. After New York in 2017 and Lisbon in 2022, this year’s conference is held under the theme “Accelerating action and mobilising all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean”. It aims to…
A fourth global coral bleaching event was recorded between February 2023 and April 2024 by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This phenomenon, the second in a decade, is causing concern among scientists. Indeed, exacerbated by the increasing frequency of marine heatwaves, the degradation of reef ecosystems triggers cascading impacts across all levels…
Over the past two weeks, more than 20,000 delegates gathered in Cali, Colombia to attend the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). While the decline of biodiversity continues to accelerate, expectations were high for Parties to start delivering on the commitment they made two years ago to halt…
As part of its mandate to mobilise civil society towards the Third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3), the Ocean & Climate Platform, in collaboration with CNRS and Friends of Ocean Action, with the support of Dona Bertarelli Philanthropy, are launching a global visioning exercise dedicated to “imagining the future of ocean sustainability”. This collaborative exercise builds…