Web Desk(June 08, 2018): Celebrated each year on 8 June since 2009, World Oceans Day is an opportunity to raise global awareness of the challenges faced by the international community in connection with the oceans.
The concept of a ‘World Oceans Day’ was first proposed in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro as a way to celebrate our world’s shared ocean and our personal connection to the sea, as well as to raise awareness about the crucial role the ocean plays in our lives and the important ways people can help protect it.
Last year, World Oceans Day celebrations were part of a week-long conference in New York at UNHQ (5-9 June). The Ocean Conference, which was kick-started by World Environment Day, followed the theme “our oceans, our future: partnering for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14”.
The Ocean Conference called for the engagement of all relevant stakeholders, bringing together Governments, the United Nations system, other intergovernmental organizations, academic institutions, the scientific community, the private sector, philanthropic organizations, civil society, mayors, children, youth and others who will utilize this momentum to galvanize action-oriented partnerships at all levels – local, national and global – that provide lasting and long-term solutions. Be sure to register your voluntary commitments to #SaveOurOcean.
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