World Oceans Day
[08. June 2023]
This year's World Oceans Day is themed: Planet Ocean - Tides are changing. The central celebration will take place at the United Nations in New York from 10:00 local time (16:00 CEST). Prof. Dr Hans-Otto Pörtner, biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Co-Chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will give the keynote lecture "Ocean x Climate" at 11:40 local time (17:40 CEST).
Every year on 8 June, the United Nations celebrates World Oceans Day. It has been celebrated in many countries since the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio in 1992. In 2008, the UN General Assembly decided that from the following year, 8 June would be declared UN World Oceans Day. This day provides an opportunity to focus global attention on how humanity benefits from the services of the oceans and underlines our individual and collective duty to use ocean resources sustainably. After all, future generations will also depend on the oceans for their livelihoods. Civil society, research centres and scientific institutions, non-governmental organisations, businesses, communities and governments around the world are mobilising millions of people with global and local events on this day. Together with the United Nations, we celebrate all that the world's oceans give us: From the oxygen we breathe to the inspiration poets draw from them.
You can watch the event online, info can be found here: https://unworldoceansday.org/un-world-oceans-day-2023/