The ocean is fundamental to life on our planet and to our future. The ocean is an important source of the planet’s biodiversity and plays a vital role in the climate system and water cycle. The ocean provides a range of ecosystem services, supplies us with oxygen to breathe, contributes to food security, nutrition and decent jobs and livelihoods, acts as a sink and reservoir of greenhouse gases and protects biodiversity, provides a means for maritime transportation, including for global trade, forms an important part of our natural and cultural heritage and plays an essential role in sustainable development, a sustainable ocean-based economy and poverty eradication.
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 conference Zero draft ” Our ocean, our future: accelerating action‘ document positions work on oceans within the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (Life below Water, SDG 14).
A key aspect is plastic pollution which links SDG 3 (Health, target 3.9), SDG 6 (Water, SDG target 6.3), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production, SDG target 12.4) to SDG 14 Life below water (target 14.1). The conference’s Ocean Action Panel 4; Preventing and significantly reducing marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities.
This reinforces the ‘here and there’ idea of ZWDP linking actions in a person’s daily life to impacts on ecosystems far away and global challenges that require a collective action in the 5 areas critical to humanity and the planet.
Extending the Saving the World's Water Towers logo to include rivers and streams, lakes and oceans and polar region
We will be extending our Saving the World’s Water Towers logo to include rives and streams, lakes and oceans and the polar regions.
Connecting Water Walk to the Oceans
The ZWDP Water Walk project in Wennigsen, Germany is the first step in linking our work on the mountains to local water walks. The aim will be creating a series of Water Walk between Wennigsen following the Weser River to the town of Cuxhaven at the North Sea.
This will connect ZWDP work to UN Water Conference, UN Decade of Cryospheric Sciences and the Water Partnership Ambassadors Programme.
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