2020 Ocean Pathways Week
11-15 November 2019 | Montreal, Canada
The 2020 Ocean Pathways Week will serve as an opportunity to host focused discussions on key priorities for marine and coastal biodiversity to inform the post-2020 global biodiversity framework and the 2020 UN Ocean Conference.
In 2020, the global community will have a critical opportunity to set the world on a path to a sustainable future for the global ocean. The year 2020 will host a number of major global policy events for the ocean, in particular the 2020 UN Ocean Conference and the 2020 UN Biodiversity Conference. As 2020 marks the deadline for the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2020 is expected to adopt a new post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Another key 2020 milestone for the ocean is the 2020 UN Ocean Conference. The first Conference, held in 2017, was an important event, catalysing major commitments and generating momentum for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 14, as well as forming Communities of Ocean Action (COA) to maintain momentum on the commitments announced in the context of the Conference.
The 2020 Ocean Pathways Week, which will take place from 11-15 November 2019 in Montreal, Canada, will be composed of:
- Advancing Ocean Action Towards SDG 14: Leveraging Synergies for Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Mangroves and Coral Reefs, 11-13 November 2019
- Thematic workshop on marine and coastal biodiversity for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, 13-15 November 2019
IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB+ meeting coverage, provided digital coverage of 13 November only and produxed a summary report in HTML and PDF, which comprised a meeting of the SDG 14 Communities of Ocean Action and a thematic workshop on marine and coastal biodiversity for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, under the framework of 2020 Ocean Pathways Week.
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IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB+ meeting coverage, will provide digital coverage and a summary report of 13 November only, which will comprise a meeting of the SDG 14 Communities of Ocean Action and a thematic workshop on marine and coastal biodiversity for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, under the framework of 2020 Ocean Pathways Week. Kindly return to this page on Wednesday, 13 November 2019, for coverage of the event.
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