Opening of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference | United Nations (Nice, France)

Our Ocean, Our Future, Our Responsibility

- Cultural Event
- Opening segment, 1st plenary meeting

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Opening of the Conference - Item 1
Election of the two Presidents - Item 2
Opening statements - Item 1

- His Excellency Emmanuel Macron, President of the Conference
- His Excellency Rodrigo Chaves Robles, President of the Conference
- His Excellency António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
- His Excellency Philemon Yang, President of the seventy-ninth session of the General Assembly
- His Excellency Bob Rae, President of the Economic and Social Council (pre-recorded video)
- Mr. Renaud Muselier, President, Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Mr. Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice

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The high-level 2025 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 (the 2025 UN Ocean Conference) will be co-hosted by France and Costa Rica and held in Nice, France, from 9 – 13 June 2025.

The overarching theme of the Conference is “Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean”. The Conference aims to support further and urgent action to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development and identify further ways and means to support the implementation of SDG 14. It will build on existing instruments to form successful partnerships towards the swift conclusion and effective implementation of ongoing processes that contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of the ocean.

The Conference will involve 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, Indigenous Peoples and local communities and other actors to assess challenges and opportunities relating to, as well as actions taken towards, the implementation of Goal 14. 

The Conference will build on the previous UN Ocean Conferences, hosted by Sweden and Fiji in 2017 in New York and by Portugal and Kenya in 2022 in Lisbon.

2025 UN Ocean Conference website: https://sdgs.un.org/conferences/ocean2025

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Watch the opening of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference in other languages (AR, CH, EN, FR, RU, SP) on the UN Web TV website: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k/k1kj0sjklh