Mediterranean Blue Economy Stakeholder Platform

Date: February 21, 2022

Place: Online, -

Description of the event:

Background

Pursuant to General Assembly decision 75/578 of 9 September 2021, the United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development is scheduled to be held from 27 June to 1 July 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal. The overall theme of the Conference is: “Scaling up ocean action based on science and innovation for the implementation of Goal 14: stocktaking, partnerships and solutions”.

The modalities resolution for the 2022 UN Ocean Conference (A/RES/73/292) calls for the involvement of all relevant stakeholders bringing together Governments, the United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations, international financial institutions, other interested international bodies, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, academic institutions, the scientific community, the private sector, philanthropic organizations and other actors to assess challenges and opportunities relating to, as well as actions taken towards, the implementation of Goal 14.

The programme of the 2022 UN Ocean Conference will include eight interactive dialogues which will be collaborative and multi-stakeholder in nature and will focus on recommendations to support the implementation of Goal 14, including through strengthened cooperation, building on existing successful partnerships and stimulating innovative and concrete new ones, taking into account the theme of the Conference.

In early 2020, stakeholders were invited to contribute inputs on elements for the 2022 UN Ocean Conference declaration as well as the themes for the interactive dialogues for the 2022 UN Ocean Conference. All inputs are available here: http://bit.ly/StakeholderInputsOnlineConsultationDeclaration. Additionally, stakeholders were also invited to provide inputs to the concept papers on each of the themes of the interactive dialogues in early 2020. A total of 184 stakeholders’ submissions were received. Details are available here.

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For further details on the global online stakeholder consultation, please check the flyer here.

For more information on the 2022 UN Ocean Conference, please visit: https://www.un.org/en/conferences/ocean2022

Type: Open