UNDESA in collaboration with the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, Ambassador Peter Thomson, will be hosting this webinar with the objectives to discuss the ways in which public and private sector resources as well as charities and philanthropies could be effectively mobilized and scaled-up towards implementing SDG14, to discuss how the important link between ocean and climate can be strategically factored in public and private investment decisions for oceans and to share best practices and examples of innovative financing tools and instruments that has shown positive results.
The webinar will have an Opening Segment and a High Level Panel Discussion to be moderated by the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, Ambassador Peter Thomson. Welcome/Opening remarks will be delivered by the Permanent Representatives of Kenya and Portugal, the co-hosts of the 2020 Ocean Conference, Mr. Liu Zhenmin, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Conference Secretary-General and Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Special Adviser to the Presidents of the Ocean Conference on the ocean and legal matters.
