Economist Impact’s World Ocean Summit celebrates its tenth anniversary this month from February 27th to March 1st in Lisbon—a city (and country) at the forefront of sustainable ocean thinking and practice. As we return to an in-person event, the three-day programme welcomes more than 180 speakers and 1,500 attendees who will examine the greatest challenges facing the ocean: climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
Speakers and delegates from conservation, finance, shipping, fishing and aquaculture, tourism and renewable energy provide a diversity of perspectives and expertise. This year, two new session-tracks are being launched: “Cities and the ocean” and “Investment hub”.
I am looking forward to moderating many exciting sessions at the summit, on diverse topics from closing the finance gap to meet SDG14 and scaling private-sector blue finance to harnessing “blue biotechnology” and developing blue carbon projects.
Join the World Ocean Initiative in Lisbon: https://events.economist.com/world-ocean-summit/
The full agenda is here: https://events.economist.com/world-ocean-summit/agenda/
More on the ocean economy:
- Integrating Blue Industry and Blue Finance
- Highlighting the importance of the ocean and blue finance at London Climate Action Week
- Speaking at the Ocean-Climate Nexus during London Climate Action Week
- Insights from the UN Ocean Conference: Mainstreaming sustainable blue finance
- Delivering opening remarks for Biodiversity Credit Alliance event at UN Ocean Conference