GC for Med – Session 6: Making action for the Mediterranean Sea long lasting

A sustainable ocean economy, based on a healthy ocean, is essential to safeguarding biodiversity, vital ecosystem services, food security, livelihoods and prosperity.It is central to achieving the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the goals of the Paris Agreement and the targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.Seafood, shipping, port operation, renewelable energy, coastal and marine tourism, coastal infrastructures, the role of these ocean industries and activities, and their finance value chains is instrumental for the world to meet the 17 SDGs by 2030 and climate and nature targets in 2050, and represent both risks to manage and opportunities to capture.

On the agenda :

Decarbonation of maritime transport along the value chain

• Emilie ESPANET, New Energies Coalition General Secretary / CMA CGM
• DB Tarımsal Enerji / Arkas line representatives

Seafood traceability across the value chain

• TBC

UNGC Ocean centers opportunities in the Mediterranean

• Patricia Furtado