Let's Be Nice to the Ocean

Please share 🌊 #Nice idea #3 Participants in the 3rd UN Ocean Conference next year cannot leave Nice with the impression that they heard – and sang! – the same old tune. We must change the tune and increase the volume. #LetseNicetotheOcean https://lnkd.in/dEJVQ7fB

Expect a lot of commentaries soon and in the next twelve months, on the significance of President Macron's and President Xi Jiping's Joint Declaration "From Kunming-Montreal to Nice, for a Reinforced Cooperation between #France and #China on #Ocean Biodiversity" 👇 Especially Paragraph 1 on 30x30. Paragraph 11 on the Deep Sea Mining and the International Seabed Authority. Paragraph 13 on fisheries subsidies and the WTO. Paragraph 14 & 15 on IUU fishing. Paragraph 17 on Upstream reduction of production and use of plastics (a game-changer for the negotiation of a UN #PlasticsTreaty?). Paragraph 28 on the Southern Ocean. Section VI on Greening shipping. And Section VII, including Paragraph 33 on sustainable tourism and Paragraph 36 on seaweed use and consumption. https://lnkd.in/dRgjWvXD

One month to go today, before the Immersed in Change High-Level Conference in San José (7-8 June 2024): https://lnkd.in/dY6tkxiu Organized by the Government of Costa Rica - Co-Chair of the Third UN Ocean Conference one year later in Nice (9-13 June 2025). If you are in San José next month, don't miss the #LetsBeNicetotheOcean official event at the start of Day 1: 📆 Friday 7 June 8h00 am in the Hammerhead shark🦈 Room. Detailed programme will published later. But be assured that at that time Costa Rican coffee ☕ will be served.

Please share 🌊 #Nice idea#2 Can we make ocean protection the norm rather than the exception? #LetsBeNicetotheOcean https://lnkd.in/dEJVQ7fB

Please share 🌊 #Nice idea #1 The Protection Principle: Making it incumbent upon extractive industries to demonstrate the harmlessness of their plans and actions rather than for ocean conservationists to continue begging for ocean protection. #LetsBeNicetotheOcean https://lnkd.in/dEJVQ7fB

Thank you Remi Parmentier for setting this important agenda: 1. The deep sea 🌊 2. Antarctica and the Southern Ocean 🧊 3. The Mediterranean 🪸

Last month, I had the chance to go to the #MonacoOceanWeek 🇲🇨 with local & international experts and civil society organizations, including professionals from the Ocean & Climate Platform, to attend their two side-events related to public policies implemented by the French Secretariat of State for the Sea and Biodiversity (Secrétariat d’État chargé de la Mer et de la Biodiversité) and also to interview professionals in the field: 1️⃣ Adapting coastal cities and communities to tackle sea level rise 🌊 Global sea level rise is caused by the increased melting of land-based ice, such as glaciers and ice sheets. With ocean warming and high levels of greenhouse gas emissions, sea level will continue to rise at higher rates, according to experts. This phenomenon results in extreme weather events and major repercussions for coastal cities: land loss, flooding, coastal erosion, ecosystem degradation, and so on. In its Global Risks Report 2024 (https://lnkd.in/epZpQCgf), World Economic Forum showed us that extreme weather events were seen as “the second-most severe risk over the two-year time frame", and also, nearly all environmental risks featured among the 10 global risks over the longer term (ten-years time frame): extreme weather events, critical change to Earth systems, and biodiversity loss. Sea level rise and coastal adaptation still remain under-addressed but they recently have been defined as a clear political priority. They will be addressed and discussed at the next United Nations Ocean Conference #UNOC3 🇺🇳in Nice in June 2025, during an inaugural international event. ➡️To better understand this phenomenon with Lisa Devignol : https://lnkd.in/eYbAJB9p 2️⃣ “Let's Be Nice to the Ocean”: an initiative to prepare for the UNOC 3 In June 2025, the Governments of France and Costa Rica 🇫🇷🇨🇷 will co-organize the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice. They have mandated Remi Parmentier (The Varda Group) and Loreley Picourt (Ocean & Climate Platform) to co-facilitate the participation of civil society in Nice. Civil society organizations play a crucial role in ocean governance, their voices need to be heard and their ideas need to be taken into account. 💬They were invited to share their innovative, actionable and relevant ideas to https://lnkd.in/e7M_igSS in order to protect the ocean. 🔔Find out more about this initiative (all the interviews are in English with French subtitles) :  - Interview with Rémi Parmentier on “3 immediate opportunities” : The Deep Sea, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and the Mediterranean : https://lnkd.in/e7KhUvFj  - Interview with Loreley Picourt on the role of #civilsociety organizations ⬇️ #UNOceanConference #sealevelrise #coastaladaptation

Reducing, restricting #plastics production and use is the best way to #BeatPlasticPollution and #BeNicetotheOcean. Members of the #LetsBeNicetotheOcean Secretariat are participating in the 4th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (#INC4) for a UN #PlasticsTreaty in Ottawa, Canada. Photo: Remi Parmentier with Isabel Leal Maldonado in front of artivist Benjamin Von Wong's display. [Photo taken by Benjamin Von Wong]

Let's Be Nice to the Mediterranean 👇

#FPA2News   🌊 Dive into a paradigm-shifting perspective on ocean conservation! The Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean Initiative explained in Rémi Parmentier’s latest op-ed challenging us to rethink our approach ahead of the Third UN Ocean Conference. It explores innovative solutions and urgent actions needed for sustainable ocean protection.   Read the full op-ed here: [https://lnkd.in/gKh9D-F9 ] 📖   🇫🇷 Un regard nouveau sur la conservation de l’océan. L'initiative Let's Be Nice to the Ocean expliquée dans la dernière tribune de Rémi Parmentier, nous mettant au défi de repenser notre approche avant la Troisième Conférence des Nations Unies sur l’Océan. Il explore les solutions innovantes et les actions urgentes nécessaires à la protection durable de l’océan. Lisez l'article complet ici : [https://lnkd.in/gKh9D-F9 ] #OceanConservation #UNOC2025 International Institute for Sustainable Development