Greece will host the 9th Our Ocean Conference in 2024. The Conference is scheduled to take place in Athens, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, on the 16th and 17th of April. The Our Ocean Youth Leadership Summit will be held parallel to the main conference, starting the day before, on the 15th of April.
The Our Ocean Conference was first launched under the initiative of the U.S. Department of State in 2014. Since then, it has gradually become a forum for dialogue that brings together governments, international organizations, academia, the private sector, and NGOs that share a common vision for the protection of the oceans and take action to support this vision.
Greece, a country with an extended coastline of thousand kilometers and hundreds of islands, as well as a nation with a long tradition of seamanship, not only recognizes the need for prompt reaction but has already taken bold and concrete measures in this direction such as the establishment of concrete conservation targets for the marine protected areas and the ambitious decarbonization project for the small islands. By hosting the 9th Our Ocean Conference Greece reaffirms its commitment to transition to a “Blue economy” to harness the advantages of a new balance between economic growth, social cohesion, and sustainability as well as addressing some key challenges such as biodiversity loss, unsustainable fishing, marine pollution especially from plastics, and unsustainable maritime transport.
Areas of Action:
- Marine Protected Areas
- Sustainable blue economy
- Climate Change
- Maritime Security
- Sustainable Fisheries
- Marine Pollution
Past Events
- Our Ocean Conference 2020, The Republic of Palau, 8 December 2020 01:00-09:00 UTC