The Ocean Panel’s 14 serving world leaders have united to launch a new ocean action agenda on 2 December 2020, following a series of national launch events named “Follow the Sun” to signify and build global political will around their commitments from 3-4 December.
Check out the links below:
- Wednesday, 2 December 2020 – Global Launch of the Sustainable Ocean Economy Report
Click here for more information about the report
- Thursday-Friday, 3-4 December 2020 – Follow the Sun Series of National Events
Click here to watch the national livestream
True sustainability has long been elusive for the ocean. It’s time to act. For WorldFish, researchers namely, Shakuntala Thilsted, Eddie Allison Afrina Choudhury, Cynthia McDougall, Danika Kleiber, and John Kurien have contributed to the following Blue Papers: The Future of Food from the Sea, Towards Ocean Equity, The Human Relationship with our Ocean Planet and The Ocean Transition: What to learn from System Transitions.
From Fiji to Mexico, in their national launches, countries shared their country-specific plans and discussed priority actions to transform how the world can protect and use the ocean and ultimately sustainably manage humanity’s impacts on it.
They also spotlighted the action underway to support the agenda and accelerate, scale and finance ocean action. Countries were joined by prominent guest speakers from across government, business, finance, civil society and the scientific community.
For more information, visit the Global Launch of the Sustainable Ocean Economy Report's official page, the Follow the Sun event agenda, and join the conversation via @OceanPanel’s on Twitter using #SustainableOceanEconomy. If you have any questions, please contact Paulina.Padilla@wri.org.