Blue Economy Panel - UN World Oceans Day 2024

A panel discussion on re-evaluating and financing our economic approach to the ocean, considering the increasing challenges facing our ocean and the central role that the ocean plays in sustainable development.

Featuring moderator Shyla Raghav (Chief Climate Officer, Time Magazine), Karen Sack (Executive Director, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance), Barkha Mossaë (Regenerative Blue Economy Manager, IUCN), Brett Jenks
(CEO, Rare).

We don’t have time for “out of sight, out of mind.” Our relationship to the ocean needs to urgently change, and our efforts have only skimmed the surface to date. To motivate widespread momentum for the ocean, we need to awaken new depths.

UN WOD 2024 took us on a journey of discovery through the ocean’s vastness, tapping into the wisdom and expertise of global policy-makers, scientists, thought leaders, and artists to expand our perspectives and appreciation for our blue planet, build new foundations for our relationship to the ocean, and ignite a wave of action towards necessary change.

UN World Oceans Day 2024 is hosted by the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (UN DOALOS) of the Office of Legal Affairs in partnership with Oceanic Global.

*While the official UN designation for World Oceans Day is 8 June, the 2024 event will be celebrated on Friday, 7 June.