This year’s theme of World Oceans Day, Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean was at the centre of the Virtual Ocean Dialogues from 1-5 June with the World Economic Forum and Friends of Ocean Action. The aim was to keep the momentum for an urgent and ambitious global ocean agenda to build back better in the context of the major disruption we are all facing in the new COVID-19 world.
Our role in this first-ever virtual forum, which convened and connected leaders, scientific experts, policymakers, media, and communities across the globe, was to highlight the role of the ocean as an important source of food and livelihoods for billions of people. Read the rest
