Restoring ocean health

Healthy oceans are at the heart of livelihoods for many, a source of sustenance, and key to a stabilised climate regime. Limiting harmful human activities, such as overfishing and pollution, will help build the resilience of marine ecosystems and communities dependent upon them. How can we better address pollution, notably plastics and chemicals, and improve marine spatial planning to ensure that the diversity of marine life is sustained?

Marine protected areas have demonstrated positive outcomes for biodiversity and human well-being. What are the conditions for successful protection measures, and how can we strengthen frameworks and collaboration across borders and beyond national jurisdictions?

Climate change directly affects the ocean’s temperature and pH levels. How can marine organisms and, ultimately, coastal communities adapt to warmer and more acidic waters? The ocean offers tremendous opportunities for improved livelihoods. Enabling a sustainable blue economy can open new opportunities. What are tomorrow’s “blue chips” for the blue planet?

Finding new ways to preserve and protect polar ecosystems and species is becoming increasingly important as economic activities thrive and the impacts of climate change accelerate. How can the losses in polar biodiversity due to rapidly changing climatic conditions be minimised? Polar conservation remains a test for international cooperation. What will it take to protect the commons in the face of mounting pressures?

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Saturday 04 Sep 14:00 - 14:45	H3 - IUCN Knowledge Hub	Knowledge product info session: PANORAMA - Solutions For a Healthy Planet	en	Exhibition Event	Landscapes Oceans Rights and governance Knowledge, innovation and technology	favourite Please login to add this session to your favourites
Tuesday 07 Sep 13:00 - 14:00	H3 – Reimagine	L'étonnante histoire du bénitier dans le Pacifique et au delà !	fr	Exhibition Event	Oceans	favourite Please login to add this session to your favourites
Thursday 09 Sep 12:00 - 12:30	H3 - OFB – Office français de la biodiversité	Les PNMs, un outil de protection de l’environnement	fr		Oceans Rights and governance	favourite Please login to add this session to your favourites
Tuesday 07 Sep 15:15 - 16:00	H3 - Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Restoration	Restoration Implementation Showcase (ACTUAL TIME 15:15-16:15)	en Onsite & livestreamed	Exhibition Event	Landscapes Oceans	favourite Please login to add this session to your favourites
Saturday 04 Sep 17:15 - 17:45	H9 - B 11 Press Conference Room – Callelongue	Shark Conservation - Mayday....our Oceans are calling for help	en Session with interpretation Onsite & livestreamed	Press Conference	Climate change Oceans	favourite Please login to add this session to your favourites

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	Ecosystem conservation, restoration and remediation in the ocean
	Eliminate plastic pollution in protected areas, with priority action on single-use plastic products
	Reducing impacts of incidental capture on threatened marine species
	Stopping the global plastic pollution crisis in marine environments by 2030
	Setting area-based conservation targets based on evidence of what nature and people need to thrive
	Protection of deep-ocean ecosystems and biodiversity through a moratorium on seabed mining

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