 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome to Ocean and Coastal Day of the Race to Zero Dialogues. My name is Christian Telikey. I am the director of the Friends of Ocean Action at the World Economic Forum. Delighted that you could join us and we do hope that this finds you safe and well wherever you may be in the world. Today is the third day being hosted by the World Economic Forum as a contribution to the Race to Zero Dialogues of the many of dialogues that are going on during these two weeks. Many exciting sessions and not the least of which is the ocean and delighted to be able to have a full day of sessions and kicking off today with some very interesting and engaging panelists and remarks to hopefully set you up for the day in participating in some of the other sessions. For those of you who are not familiar with the Race to Zero Global Campaign, it's an incredible initiative that we'll hear more about from our high-level champions that really is rallying leadership to support the Race to Zero from many cities over 450 cities, 22 regions, or 1,000 businesses, 45 big investors, and if that wasn't enough over 550 universities that are really trying to drive for a healthy, resilient zero carbon recovery that prevents not only future threats but creates decent jobs and unlocks inclusive sustainable growth, which I think we all want to aspire to especially in these times and what COVID has shown us with the relationship between humanity and nature. Certainly the objective of this is to build momentum and shift to a decarbonized economy ahead of COP26 and where governments must strengthen their contributions to the Paris Agreement. And certainly we've been afforded the luxury of time for a year leading into to the next COP to really consider some of these issues and really mobilize action. Not the least of which is around two-thirds of the planet, the ocean. And for a long time the ocean perhaps is not considered as part of the mainstream, perhaps out of sight and out of mind in many discussions not the least of which has been in the climate. And thanks to many of you on the line and champions that are taking this forward are raising this higher on the agenda. We saw this most recently in COP25 that was hosted by Chile calling it the blue COP really bringing the ocean into the climate into the climate domain and getting we're all I think we're all getting very excited about the potential for COP26. I think many of you may not realize the extent the ocean rule has in regulating our climate but has an enormous influence on on weather patterns across the globe and we're seeing this time and time again the influence that the ocean is having on on our climate. I think hopefully you'll be aware that the ocean has absorbed approximately 90% of the excess heat that we're producing and over 30% of the carbon generated from human activities which are dampening much of the impacts that we otherwise experience on land. However we do know that the ocean is in trouble and this certainly is compromising the this ability to withstand the impacts of climate change and certainly to continue to provide the resources that support local livelihoods, viable infrastructure, national security, global economies, our health, etc. And so there's an intimate linkage here between ocean health and planetary health and indeed human health that we certainly need to strengthen. The good news hopefully you all have seen is that recent research commissioned by the high-level panel for a sustainable ocean economy found that ocean-based climate action can play a much bigger role in shrinking the world's carbon footprint that was previously thought. In this analysis it was shown that it could deliver up to a fifth that's 21% or 11 gigatons of CO2 of annual greenhouse gas emission cuts needed by 2020 to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. And if you think about this part of of this would be to move to ocean-based renewable energy technology such as offshore wind, wave, tidal, etc. that is would be displacing coal-fired power plants and the total mitigation potential for the sector could be equal to taking over 1 billion cars off the road per year that's 1 billion cars off the road per year so it really behooves us to really think about the ocean and the role the ocean can play in combating climate change and indeed we'll hear more about this from our very distinguished panelists that we have here today. We're really fortunate that the Race to Zero dialogues considered that we could be able to reach a broader audience and allowing us to raise this issue with more governments and industry and communities around the world so we can better understand the state of the ocean and the need for putting this firmly in the heart of the agenda of climate change going forward. It certainly is an opportunity as I mentioned earlier to call for the potential not think about necessarily impacts but think about the solutions, how we can mitigate climate change impacts and strengthen ocean resilience as well as indeed our own resilience to climate change so we need to think about really the connection as I mentioned earlier about humanity, people, economy, they are connected and we need to consider it as such. We would really like to thank our high level champions for hosting this Ocean and Coastal Day event in the Race to Zero dialogues. Nigel Topping and Gonzalo Muñoz, I hope you all, if you haven't met them and get to know them I encourage you to do so. They have an enormous amount of energy and drive to really see these issues come to the forefront and we want to empower them, we want to support them, we want to help them to really move this agenda along. We are entering into some new territory we hope where the world indeed globally and some of the big powers are going to start really perhaps changing their views and really embracing the solutions of what climate change towards climate change so with that I am delighted to welcome Nigel and Gonzalo to kick things off with some opening remarks so gentlemen over to you. Thank you so much Christian and good morning everyone. As Christian said welcome to our fourth day of the Race to Zero dialogues, as he said the third one at the Weft House. Today is our blue day and totally connected as Christian said to the blue cop to cop 25 but heading to cop 26. We're now opening our Oceans and Coastal Zone Day starting of course by thanking the Friends of Ocean Action, the World Economic Forum, the Blue Climate Initiative and the Ocean and Climate Platform for putting this critical topic of Oceans and Coastal Zones in the Race to Zero mission. Today we will explore how Oceans and Coastal Zones can and must help us accelerate climate action and hence communities resilience and contribute to our efforts to build this healthy resilience serocarbon future that we are building from the non-state actors perspective helping nation helping the parties to increase their ambition to increase their action noticing that there are so many capacity to be contributed from the Oceans and Coastal Zones sector. Today we have no doubt that investing sustainable blue economy activities can be one of the most economically efficient means of recovering from the global pandemic. We have to tackle climate change through the increment of the Health of Oceans and we have to frame the vision of today's team and draw on the Oceans and Coastal Zone Climate Action Pathways that have set out the blueprint of how to make this vision a reality. Thanks Gonzalo and I think at the heart of the Climate Action Pathways is this idea of systemic change that the kind of transformations we're talking about require actors that require people across a long value change policy makers civil society cities investors all to change in concert to play their role and that's what the idea of the Pathways is so crucial in driving what we call the ambition loop so that as well as the long-term vision and long-term goals we have very specific actions which people are going to take in the next five years and our intention is to get to Glasgow with as many of you as possible in the race to zero and sending very clear signals about what you are already doing so that governments get that message and that we can include action on Oceans into national mitigation adaptation plans. Mainly here to listen today but some of the things that I'm really looking forward to are hearing more about the role of healthy ecosystems in storing carbon you know whether it's mangrove forest seagrass meadows or saltwater marshes being protected and restored and as well as storing carbon we know as christian alluded to there's many economic and human benefits in terms of flood protection storm protection and healthy and sustainable livelihoods also looking forward to hearing more about the marine linked industries whether it's offshore energy shipping I mean some great progress in the getting to zero coalition really and getting a really clear roadmap together for the shipping industry to get to zero and interesting collaborations like like sea boss bringing together leading fishing industry players that could perhaps up their ambition to commit to net zero so really looking forward to learning a lot more from all the stakeholders on track for an oceans race to zero and the rest of today Gonzalo yeah man and as you said I mean it's time not I mean there's no room for a silent mindset to solve challenges like the ones related to our topic radical collaboration between different stakeholders and different sectors absolutely critical and and oceans and coastal zone are one very concrete way to to set that logic right when you see the connection between oceans and energy oceans and transport oceans and food that shows us the need of setting the radical collaboration so we are as you said seeing greater advances in transport and sustainable fuel we also see the need of investing and put capital towards ending over fishing restoring mangroves expanding offshore wind decarbonizing shipping all of that will require investment with the with this intention of solving the climate crisis related to ocean we need to start this today we kind of wait for 2050 we need to take this into a transformative action and and and we know for example how much of tidal facilities and offshore wind farms will play an important role in the global clean electricity mix but as I said before we need to scale up the investment and the vision to create this future now when it comes to job creation connected to the COVID-19 crisis all marine linked industries should provide healthy sustainable job for local communities as chris mentioned in this moment when when job recovery is so critical all marine linked industry should contribute to a recovery from coronavirus in the short term and to create our zero carbon economy in the long term we need to globally invest in nature-based solutions and we know that oceans provide us with numerous nature-based solutions to to climate change it's a it's a perfect connection between climate and diversity right so we can say also that the ocean crisis and the climate crisis are just two sides of the same coin yeah thanks because I'll just just question the last thought and then the hand back to you we've called these two weeks the race to zero dialogue so yes the emphasis is on the race to zero the specific actions that we can urgently take to get on the on track but I also just like to point to the importance of the word dialogue you know where it we're all trained to debate ideas and to win arguments and the word debate etymologically comes from the same root as batter it's a confrontation a debate with a winner and a loser so we're really looking for the dialogues which is an opportunity to take a to slow down a little bit not feel the need to be right and to win an argument but to really concentrate on listening to each other and in particular notice where we disagree because in in the areas where we disagree there's when we listen to each other there's a huge opportunity for learning and it's only if we learn together it's only as we learn together that we'll be able to make these these systems transformations that we need so I'm really looking forward to learning a lot it's an incredible day you guys have put together and look forward to working with you to make sure that we can tell the story in Glasgow of a world with a clear plan and decisive action already being taken to win the ocean track of the race to zero thanks Christian well fantastic Nigel on Gonzalo what as you can see hopefully people in the line what terrific energy and inspiring words these two gentlemen have and and I think you know it's a it's a great way to remind us Nigel about you know this in terms of dialogue you know this is very much about opening doors and bridging you know building bridges and and establishing relationships and conversations where it's not just about you know driving home you know and battering people with statistics and and you know but it's really thinking about those solutions and that we are in this together and so I think I'm hoping that that certainly over over the course of the day we'll be able to provide insights and deliver perhaps some ideas really concrete ideas of where we can have a commonality of purpose and meaning and understanding that we are all in this together and in fact we can address this together as a great lead into into COP26 next year I would also suggest if I may you know while we do still have Gonzalo and Nigel here that that that and maybe perhaps a plea that we use upcoming ocean events and as sort of milestones to keep this conversation going and keeping others engaged to remind people the importance of the ocean so we certainly have a great bill leading into COP26 and that the important that that sort of governments and parties are hearing the importance that the ocean plays in our in our daily lives and and it's not just a one set of people that are that are driving that forward so we're certainly looking to you for um for uh for helping us with that so again thank you so thank you so much please heard please heard christian we look forward to working with you to keep that drum beat going thank you fantastic fantastic fantastic uh well listen we uh have got an incredible panel um of of uh for you right now um I worked out that they are spending 12 time zones um and this is called dedication folks um we've got uh Daniella Fernandez who uh is just past two o'clock in the morning for her she's the chief executive officer of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance doing great work um for a number of years now on innovators really mobilizing youth communities we'll hear from her in a moment uh we then have uh Kim Kupanas who's the global ambassador for bilab um I reckon it's about three o'clock in the morning for her um and then uh moving swiftly into Europe uh probably no introduction needed but I'm going to uh do so anyway Hans Otto Portner who's the co-chair working of working group two of the IPCC the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change instrumental in the report on the ocean and cryosphere that was launched last year um that hopefully many of you saw uh and then finally and by no means least Angelique Pompano the chief executive officer of Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust Seychat who is situated in the Seychelles mid-afternoon for you there. Delighted to welcome you all um and that you could join us for this very important discussion indeed kickoff for this day of ocean and coastal discussions um so with that maybe perhaps uh Hans Otto can I come to you first um you clearly have been at the forefront of discussing and erasing the issue amongst governments mobilizing many scientists around the world to really make sure there are there are scientific understanding of the role the ocean plays within climate change is clearly understood and and indefensible you know almost as much as possible and um and I think you know and I'm sure there are many things that keep you up at night um and I do wonder whether um you can maybe say well what are those things that are keeping up at night what is your biggest concern that you have with respect to the ocean and climate um at this moment if you just would unmute yourself there it's there you there's to say thanks a lot Christian and and hello everybody if you ask me for my my biggest concern we have been praising the role of of the ocean and climate regulation and especially stabilization and and that role is at stake because it depends on healthy ecosystems I mean we have uh drivers in the ocean which I would call the climate drivers in the ocean which are ocean warming ocean acidification and both of them are sort of the other side of the coin of of this climate regulation service the ocean provides and then we have oxygen loss from the ocean due due to warming and and where these three drivers combine we call them a deadly trio if they challenge the organism so much um that that they are giving up that they are going extinct in the respective in the respective places and I'm going to this extreme because it has happened in earth history it has happened during mass extinction events in earth history and the fossil record tells us about uh these interactions so in a in a way our current climate crisis is comparable to these uh paleo climate crisis but it's happening much faster than back then where it took hundreds and thousands of years to develop um to the extent then to take effect on the organisms so we are faster we haven't yet on human time scales we haven't yet reached the dimension of those past crises but this should be a warning sign there are tipping points to be surpassed for healthy ecosystems and for one of them we have already surpassed it which is the warm water calls and we should stabilize the climate and with that stabilize the ocean and and preserve biodiversity and preserve its capacity to help us because it connects everything on the planet indeed um and that certainly is a um you know these these warning signals clearly are are there and that we're I think it's really important that that you know that that that message of the speed at which the change is happening and in previous arena we're we're moving beyond geological scale scales to the speed at which the change of the environment is extraordinary um and so obviously that that that is something that that you know we need to um you know we need to make clear um that speed of change just matter if I come back to you on on the sans auto if I may um I'm curious you know to get your sense of the um you know sort of the the connection I mean you know you talked about coral reefs you know could you give us you know give a sense for those that are that are watching who may not necessarily you know make the connection between you know these ecosystems and people um and you know and actually there there are real terms you know so some may think okay we lose a coral reef it's not going to affect me but but it's quite the contrary no well it it certainly is quite the contrary because it's a global it's a global system it spends the the belt uh around in the tropics around the the globe uh it's virtually found on every continent if you if you so wish and it it is supporting livelihoods it it is one of the gems of biodiversity on on the planet and and it's it's showing us to what extent a system that is providing services to humankind um is is losing its its capacity it's protecting coastlines from storm effects it's providing fish and animal protein to from the ocean uh to dependent communities and these are usually uh communities in developing countries the capacities there to adapt to these changes are are limited and and it's the whole world should be concerned about the tropics you know because uh one of the first consequences and we we see this already with with the shifts that are ongoing I mean ocean life is shifting is moving to higher latitudes and and the net effect of this will be a clearing of the tropics from biodiversity and this biodiversity reduction there we see in the ocean but we also see it um on land it's it's starting to happen we are entering what we call the six mass extinction event uh on on the earth and and there is you know a rich human community that is depending on on those ecosystem services in in those areas and that's another urgent call for stabilizing uh climate and and maintaining those ecosystem services to the extent uh possible and I think that that that that really sort of speaks to the point that that Gonzalo was talking about that we can't treat these necessarily in silos we need to break down those silos we need to understand the interconnections between these uh between these systems and the challenges we face and indeed Daniella you know someone who's been at the uh you know at the forefront of really thinking about acknowledging that there are some uh challenges that are um that are being faced by the next generation but indeed what you've tried to do with the Sustainable Ocean Alliance is really shift to okay we're gonna we we accept that there's a challenge um but we want to then prioritize solutions and mobilize you know communities to really uh rise to the challenge shall we say of um of these solutions and and particularly the youth community and so from you what in your opinion is needed to effectively tackle the challenges that that you were facing and that Hans Otto had had outlined during this um during this session thanks Christian um so I'll give you three uh very important uh you know challenges that we have and solutions for that for the matter so first of all you know young people globally have this deep sense of urgency that has never been felt in the past so you know when we're thinking about the restoration and the health of our ocean our goal is to restore the health of our ocean in our lifetime and so as we're having these conversations leading up to uh the COP26 we want to make sure that world leaders understand that the the 10 20 30 year old milestone timelines I worked for them in the past won't work for us anymore we really need to be a lot more deliberate intentional in setting uh shorter time frames in milestones so that we can tackle these problems so that's one just having a deep sense of urgency of this generation and making sure that that is translated to world leaders at large number two we're also seeing the importance of being cross disciplinary and being more inclusive and who we're allowing to play in this space and who is able to provide solutions to this space oftentimes we we saw the ocean space as an area where you could only enter if you had a marine biology degree or you had a a PhD but that's not the case anymore we have young people globally that are accountants that are artists that are you know scuba divers that are um you know professionals in their own right that want to contribute so how can we enable them to contribute and the only way to do so is by helping them create solutions in their own backyard and using their skills as impassions and the third thing I'll say is just we desperately need an injection of capital into the space and we we look at innovation as we look at the whole spectrum right we have in the ideation phase we have so many young people building grassroot projects that need microfunding and we and that spans all the way to we have companies that are working in an r&d for a very innovative project and they need millions and millions of dollars but we don't have enough funders in this space to satisfy all those areas so that's what we're trying to do it's trying to build that understanding that dialogue with investors and with funders to help them see that we need to tackle every single area of investment in the ocean space that's that's fantastic setup i'm gonna come to angelique in a second but there there was something that you that you mentioned there are a couple things you mentioned daniella that i think is really important um you you talked about you know raising ambition and i think that would really echo with gonzalo and nige you know about really you know they're kind of daily mantra you know when they get out of bed and think what how are we going to raise ambition and what kind of communities can we raise ambition i think so it speaks to the race to zero dialogues the urgency you know let's let's not wait to 2050 to start thinking about this let's start thinking about it today so by the time we get to 2050 you know we're in a good position and again really echoing what what both nige and gonzalo said and i love what you said about cross-disciplinary you know i when i was talking you know we're talking briefly there with hanzato we talked about breaking down these silos and that includes a bit you don't need a marine biology degree i get lots of young people coming through my door saying well i don't have a marine biology degree we know what that doesn't matter you know you're coming from business you're coming from uh psychology you know there's a role for everybody and our messages that you're saying is the ocean is everybody's business and therefore everybody should participate so i think that that's sort of the great but what you landed on there and this is when i come to angelica we'll come back to you again in a moment daniella you know angelic you know um daniella talked about injecting finance and how do we how do we we got no shortage of solutions and no shortage of enthusiasm and energy but we need to have the finance that appropriately meets the scale and the challenge that's being faced by the ocean so we can link into this climate change issues you have been you know you're at the heart of this with a you know a leading example of the seychelles conservation and climate adaptation trust reaching your five-year anniversary congratulations um that is fantastic to see that you're moving from strength to strength and and and really thinking about mobilizing you know resources and so so angelic um you know what do you think has as sort of has perhaps led to some of the um the successes and drive for investment that you're achieving through through seychelles the seychelles conservation climate adaptation trust um you know over over these past five years uh hi everyone well greetings from the seychelles and uh yes i am actually in the middle of the fifth anniversary celebration so if you hear some buzzing it's we've got school children visiting the exhibition so with regards to um what are the key pieces that has led to you know a debt for nature swap a sovereign blue bond i definitely have to go back to partnerships um it's been the fact that we've had so many actors wanting to partner with the seychelles government with seychelles to be able to materialize this because we know as a small island developing states we have our own constraints in terms of resources in terms of technical expertise but it's the fact that we've had so many excellent partners come through so for example with the debt for nature swap we had the nature conservancy we had the nature conservancy we had with the sovereign blue bond we had three private investors the world bank the global environment facility and now with our latest endeavor which is a mapping of seagrass meadows across the entire exclusive economic zone of seychelles i hope you can still hear me um go for it background noise fantastic it really speaks to what we're talking about you know getting involved love it go ahead um now we're currently mapping uh seagrass meadows across the entire exclusive economic zone of seychelles where we will be able to actually say by the end of this project how many gigatons of carbon that these seagrass meadows are um are are storing and the seychelles could not have done this alone all right we know this the seychelles could not have done this alone it's really been partnership but really a strong message to countries is that you need to show the ambition you need to show that political ambition otherwise the partners will not approach you and for me i think those two things have been particularly key uh just to echo what danielle has said you know it is everybody's business and here we've seen uh private sector philanthropy governments multilateral organization really come in and to support these initiatives um and then finally you know it boils down to really everyone believing and understanding the the main cause um and getting behind it um yeah partnerships are key fantastic angelica and what a what a what an appropriate soundtrack um to have in the background there of children and getting him getting involved and mobilizing wonderful to see that and i think what you said about partnerships is absolutely right you know we cannot go this go at this alone so hopefully you know people are starting to see some patterns here about you know ambition or urgency inclusivity partnerships um and and you know this is hopefully a very nice echo for uh gonzalo and nigel as they're listening to this and thinking about you know they're planning you know planning going forward um you know angelic you mentioned about you know the private sector and on the line we've got kim kupanas who's the global ambassador for the b-lab and um you know kim uh you know i know that that you know you are are someone who is passionate for the environment you're passionate for people and you're passionate for business that is that is clear um and i think that wasn't the case you probably would not be getting up at 3 am um but um so we're delighted to have you here um and uh you you've you've heard i think everybody talk um you know just they're varying degrees about partnerships and the importance for um you know the role of the private sector in business and um uh i i know probably what you're hearing maybe is some of it is is new to you and hopefully energizing for you for for two thirds of the planet um but but you know what what is the role of the private sector you know in this and really rolling up their seas and and going beyond um the talk and really doing the walking in this in this instance totally thank you so much christian it's really a pleasure to be here and uh you know as as danielle on you both said the ocean is everybody's business and you know businesses have a unique role to play not only because it's bad for business when there's floods and storm surges and hurricanes and tsunamis but as ganzala pointed out there's enormous opportunity jobs to be created and economic vitality to come from investing in the blue economy but you know the role of business as my 10 year old would say is ginormous the the opportunities for scaling innovations for the kinds of blue economy investments really are huge and um you know if if you if businesses choose to do something for the oceans for no other reason than business opportunity great but i would argue that there's they're uniquely culpable you know you look at all of the stats in terms of plastic pollution and you know most of the the um the challenges to the ocean right now being caused by business so you know dine oceans are bad for business and it's really important that businesses are taking responsibilities of the kind of impacts that they're having there and there's so much that businesses are doing but i would argue it's not happening fast enough they're not doing enough of it um but in terms of what they can do to really oversimplify it businesses need to stop dumping bad stuff into the ocean and start pulling bad stuff out of the ocean there's some really great examples from from within the business community and specifically the business community that i represent of businesses that are doing that kind of very aggressive innovative work to heal our oceans and you know in addition to just understanding what those impacts are it's easy to think that if you're not making ocean related products or you're not in a coastal community that dying oceans or the client the ocean emergency is not impacting your business that's just really a false notion because when these kind of impacts happen to ocean communities and um you know you start to see these kind of economic impacts that ripple effects on your business and your supply chains is really enormous so there's a lot of upside and a lot of downside and reason for businesses to be invested in healing our oceans yeah i mean i think and hopefully that that you know that's the sort of language that i'm hoping you know that we're all hoping is really starting to resonate you know with the you know with the business community um i think uh um you know you're picking up on that and maybe reflecting on what daniella said daniella maybe i can come back to you on this um you know you heard kim talk about you know this really clear and cogent case for you know for business to be involved and and you know should be less about putting things in but more about putting you know perhaps you know putting things you know pulling things out of the ocean but investing in the ocean the same way because it's good you know good for people good for business and climate i mean daniella are you i mean you've you've clearly you know laid down the flag as it were in terms of saying you know urgency inclusivity um you know is this is this resonating with some of the businesses that you're that you're speaking to i mean are you are seeing the uptake that i think sort of kim is is talking about there absolutely and you know i think that it's even important take us to back and for us to to realize how important and special the moment in time that we're in right now because when you look at at the past 100 years when you think about the marine industry the ocean industry the mentality has been all around exploitation and exploration and that was it that was what uh shipping was all about that was what any industry the ocean was about and now we're entering this this era of disruption and disruption to regenerate and make our ocean sustainable so we're definitely seeing the shifts not only in entrepreneurs and young people in the ocean space but also to kim's point in business leaders and seeing that they're not going to be around the next you know few years if they don't change your practices so it's truly um been fascinating to see how there is disruption coming in from the entrepreneurial side but also seeing how corporates are meeting entrepreneurs halfway and having those conversations of how can we work together and how can we implement different solutions and and christian the other thing i want to point out is this idea of holistic impact so that in the past hasn't been really a norm and when i mean holistic impacts i mean when we have for example an entrepreneur building a solution to tackle plastic in the ocean they're not just thinking about how do we prevent plastic from entering the ocean they're also thinking about how does the material i'm using my example is lollywood a seaweed based technology company not only are they preventing preventing plastic from entering the ocean but they're also drawing down carbon by growing their own seaweed farms right the same thing goes for another company that is working on tidal energy that is not only thinking about how can we make alternatives energy but they're thinking about how can we add iot devices to our technology to collect data in the ocean space so we're seeing such such a mix of cross-disciplinary understandings of how can we measure impact and have a positive impact on the ocean not just from my industry but across the board yeah no i think that's i think that's really really important again but thinking that the more holistic approach and integrated approach across across sectors um what i want to do now is i want to i want to come to i want to sort of pose a final question you know to you all to you know and you know cast your minds ahead it is in a year's time um perhaps we've we've had COP26 and there have been lots of discussions and you know what what would you what would you like to see and this is perhaps a little bit of you know kind of uh you know raising ambition you know for nigel and gonzalo but what would you like to see or what would you consider a successful outcome from from COP26 you know recognizing that you know we we can't have our cake you need it right away um you know as as you know Nigel says about having dialogue is about opening doors and and you know at the same time wanting to have the urgency i'd love to get your thoughts and i'll come to you first hand's auto if i may you know very briefly what what does uh what does success look like coming out of COP26 for you in a year's time well success at COP26 would be a dedicated vote by by all countries to keep to the climate targets that we have laid out in the 1.5 report this includes for all countries to dedicate to the restoration of ecosystems exploiting the co-benefits that they entail in terms of carbon storage preserving biodiversity and one that we may not have in mind for the ocean but it's important on land actually preserving and protecting us from future pandemics so a shift in mentality uh to to nature conservation and and restoration and all countries should include the oceans in in their nationally determined there you go contributions and and and exploit the potential in addition to protecting the oceans consider in their in their conservation measures the capacity of the oceans to to help us with the stabilisation of climate rebuilding natural resources where we have them exploited and and really push for a trend to stop the current shift in baseline that we are seeing from the topics to the pollens yeah why why is words hand on thank you thank you so much for that I think that that really speaks to um you know hopefully raising raising the bar as as um Nigel has just put in into the chat um and and really thinking about um we are reflecting on the year that we've had um and the times to come and in how we can perhaps build much more resiliency into the into the system as we address the impacts of climate change both on land and in the sea Angelique for you um you know what is what does success look like or what's that what's that ambition what would you like to see coming out of um uh COP26 uh I'd like to I'd like to see a better understanding by countries of nature-based solutions and the role that oceans can play and the actions that they can take I think what we I think what we've seen so far is um is not enough ambition within the NDCs that have been submitted so far and I would take this opportunity to call on countries you know I don't want to wait to Glasgow to see success I think we have a real opportunity to see success in those revised NDCs and still continue to aim for the temperature goal um and and that would be my hope that we are focused on nature-based solutions within the NDCs uh fantastic a good words and perhaps a natural segue into into Daniela let's not wait around let's raise the urgency Daniela what is what does success look like you know according to Angelique maybe tomorrow but perhaps next year after COP26 uh so in my opinion um what I would love to see happen is for government to develop a blueprint as to how citizens can be mobilized because you know after many of these meetings governments feel as if it is there on them to deliver that these targets which it is but they don't give its citizens enough of an opportunity to contribute and right now overseeing is we're seeing a mobilization and you know and even a movement of people wanting to to do to give and and they're hungry for it so I would encourage each government to put together um a mobilization campaign for their own citizens to take a part in helping us reach these targets and these milestones and of course including the ocean and every one of these conversations yeah well what a what a great idea of just really coming up with I think often people sometimes feel that these big existential challenges that the world faces at the moment are just are too much and I think especially with COVID at the moment you know you sit here and think oh you know I I don't know where to turn I don't know what to do and and maybe that mobilization should be thinking more about you know local communities and you know and that we all have a role to play in some way and that if we add it up you know we might actually you know get summer and it kind of speaks to this point of that you know that the ocean is everybody's business and and maybe rounding off Kim with you um you know reflecting on on what you heard and um you know what is you know what does success look like for you um you know coming out of COP26 yeah well I'll just say that I'm so excited for Glasgow um we uh we the the B Corp community was really proud to join the Race to Zero at COP25 in Madrid and we came to Madrid with over 500 B corporations committed to net zero by 2030 and we're hoping to show up in Glasgow with more than half of the global B Corp community that's over 1700 B corporations you know these companies around the world that are really pay setters and and our our businesses that can show others of every size and sector that it's possible to get to a zero carbon business model um so we hope to bring over 1700 of them with us to Glasgow um and to lift up their stories you know and to the conversation we're having today I hope that we have a really robust dialogue and we've lifted up the conversation around the vital role that businesses have in healing our oceans and in preserving and protecting coastal communities and their oceans for the decades ahead well fantastic words to end this this panel on and Kim I'd be remissed if I didn't acknowledge that there you are in the heartland in the middle of the United States and you've got a fantastic coastline image behind you on your wall um very apropos and a good reminder um that we've had uh during the session uh listen it's been terrific to hear um your your energy your enthusiasm you know real confidence you know with the science we know what to do um we just need to get down and do with it and hopefully certainly Hans Otto hopefully you're energized by your your fellow panelists that you know there's a real to do let's get this done um and and and really try to you know spend this next year um and beyond indeed raising that level ambition and raising that bar so um I thank you um so much for for spending this this time with us getting up in the in the wee hours it really it is it is incredible and and really demonstrates your commitment you know to this issue so um with that I wish our panelists a good evening a good afternoon and indeed um a good a very early morning to you so we thank you again and hopefully those on the lines will be interested in contacting you and perhaps continue the discussion and look forward to engaging with you going forward into uh you know cup 26 next year um with that we're gonna we're gonna round off with uh with some you know closing remarks from again some extremely distinguished uh um members who have been you know involved with us not the least of which is uh Vladimir Robinin who is the executive secretary of the intergovernmental oceanographic commission and the assistant director general of UNESCO dialing in Paris uh Vladimir delighted that you could uh join us on the line um you are leading the charge on the decade of ocean science launching next year like everyone's excited about it and really importantly um when you read it it's the UN decade of ocean science for sustainable development it's connecting it in and making ocean science relevant to everything we do and hopefully those on the line will have heard the importance of science and connecting it in so uh Vladimir we we'd love some some brief remarks from you on how you know how is this you know this you know this the science you know what it is is connecting in you know to this issue and really driving this agenda forward thank you christian also for inviting me to speak to you uh you know and i used to be real scientists now i'm a bureaucrat but at the same time i believe that i kept some systematic thinking and uh i think we need to to look at the decade in the lens of what is happening in the world so climate crisis we all know that it exists in 2016 uh the world ocean world ocean assessment of united nations said there is also a crisis in the ocean we are running out of time to start managing the ocean sustainably uh but there is there are some good news so i would like to thank hands on the partner for for leading the work of ipcc and coming up with the special report on on ocean cryosphere and changing climate i think it was a game changer in the process in the united nation for international climate change now the door is open to the ocean uh after in 2015 in paris agreement uh the negotiators agreed to include the ocean in the in the in the agreement and i would like to describe to you the solution just probably skipping several steps the solution to us is that we need to have an ocean that is managed like the uh claim that we're able to manage the land like we claim that we're able to manage the cities with the running water electricity roads traffic lights and things like this ocean needs to be managed based on science and needs to be managed by people who are ocean and climate literate so this of course requires science uh but the current investment into science is of the order of two degrees from the overall investment into science and technology and you started this uh this session by stating that we have 70 percent of the area of the planet is it is the ocean and only two percent of science funding goes there so we if we learn how to manage the ocean and you already christian outlined five areas that will be renewables that will be decarbonization of transport uh management of ecosystems food uh dealing with the food on the sea you can easily mention that these all things are quite science intensive so in 50 days from now indeed the united nations decade of ocean science for sustainable development is starting the vision of the decade is science we need for the ocean we want and i already said that we would like to have managed ocean one of the challenges of the decade is uh so called climate and ocean nexus and we hope that we'll be able to come up with good solutions uh also in terms of adaptation and mitigation to climate change this good spillover effects in dealing with uh reducing the poverty uh reducing the food shortages uh improving health of the ocean developing sustainable ocean economy so basically there is a vision there is there is a possibility to use science and change the tide so the ocean becomes healthy and climate solutions are also visible so on the 15th of October the ioc of UNESCO which is the home of ocean science in united nations system came up with a call for action this call will be open for the programs of of the decade until 15th of january so i invite everyone to think about this please go to the website ocean decade and think how we can design now the science that will be really opening the door for all the solutions that you already outlined uh christian in the new introductory talk message is that it is possible to solve uh the climate issue the ocean issue and we need good science for that and it is really what we are doing now together with the whole world thank you christian thank you so much uh for that latimer and um i would have to say that that having we need more bureaucrats who understand the science um so uh you you are a gem and uh we need more of your likes to be in the positions that that you're in so um delighted to have your words and very important you know as you said you know we need to have more investment in the science in solutions i think we heard that from from certainly from our our colleagues and and really um you know getting others involved you know it doesn't have to be the purview of scientists alone you know we are going to mobilize many more communities that can be involved certainly the decade of ocean science going forward and that hopefully will help the arguments or the the cases that people like daniella and kim and angelic are working on to mobilize their communities and get them excited about the the art of possible so we certainly look forward to engaging you i encourage others to learn more about the decade and how you can get involved because it's just not about um you know ocean science it's about what ocean science can do for you and make our lives better um and our economy is richer um and certainly our planet healthier so again latimer thank you so much for for spending the time with us and we'll look forward to working with you uh further in the coming uh in the coming year and beyond in the decade um ladies and gentlemen i i am now you know delighted to introduce our final our final speaker who is the minister for the uk government who is leading the charge on the on cop 20 on cop 26 lord goldsmith has been an ocean champion for for many years and he is very kindly offered who couldn't join us in person but has very kindly offered a video for some remarks so may i ask my colleagues to play the video please thank you as an island nation the ocean matters a great deal to the uk so it's a real pleasure to be part of making this extended run up to cop 26 count and if it weren't for the pandemic today we'd likely be reflecting on the closing of the un biodiversity conference in kunming and we'd be welcoming the world to the climate conference in glasgo and it all seems like another age now and i think in many respects it is coronavirus has changed everything it is itself likely the consequence of our abuse of nature but we know it will be dwarfed by the impacts of climate breakdown and environmental degradation land and sea a third of marine mammals are we're told now threatened with extinction half of the world's seabirds are already affected by the rising tide of ocean plastic and almost two-thirds of our coastal wetlands are degraded critical habitats for migratory species right across the world the ocean is where life began essential for all life on earth full of wonders that we've barely begun to understand and we all depend on it for air to breathe food resources the flow of global trade but for some it's incalculable importance is much more direct and immediate and millions of people as well as quarter of marine species rely for food and shelter on the coral reefs that are set to disappear in our warmer more acidic seas over a billion people depend on fish as their main source of protein the world's poorest people depend most on the free but rarely valued services that nature provides and as they begin to fail it is they who are hit hardest by destroying ocean health and taking the world's great fisheries to that very brink we're undermining our foundations and turning this trajectory around is objectively therefore the principal challenge of our age in addition to the many deaths coronavirus has driven a hundred million people back into base poverty and even those small island developing states that have somehow managed to avoid the virus itself have nevertheless seen their economies battered so the whole world now is having to rebuild and if there's a silver lining to this pandemic it's the commitment from countries all the way around the world to build back greener and to build back better not in a box-ticking sense it means making sustainability the lens through which all decisions ultimately are made and we've seen great progress in the technological transition to low carbon zero emission vehicles are on the cusp now of going mainstream at the cost of renewables has plummeted and investment in renewables now exceeds investment in new fossil fuel capacity but despite the fact that there is no pathway to net zero emissions or the sustainable development goals without nature protection and nature recovery on a massive scale we've made very little progress with nature nature-based solutions could provide around a third of the cost-effective solutions that we need now like mangroves we're helping to restore from indonesia to the carabin to store carbon support fisheries and protect coastal communities yet nature-based solutions attract just three percent of global climate finance as cop 26 presidents we're determined to put nature at the heart of the world's response to climate change so we're committed to doubling our own international climate finance and we'll be spending a significant chunk of that increase on nature and others need to do similarly and that is important not just for land but for sea as well we've relied on our ocean to regulate our changing climate it's absorbed a quarter of carbon emissions and 90 percent of the excess heat as since caused by human activity but there's only so long that it can continue to act as a buffer the uk is set to launch a new 500 million pound blue planet found early next year to help eligible countries protect their marine resources and reduce poverty and our blue belt program of marine protected areas around our beautiful overseas territories is on track now to protect an area larger than india we launched the global ocean alliance last year inviting every country to join our campaign to protect at least 30 percent of the world's ocean in marine protected areas by 2030 at the un a few weeks ago more than 75 world leaders signed up to an ambitious radical even a leader's pledge for nature so commitment to put nature and biodiversity on a road to recovery by 2030 i understand that declaration fatigue exists but this pledge feels different more urgent it explicitly recognizes the failure of past agreements it explicitly invites people to judge signatories on the basis of how they set about honoring its commitments and it explicitly recognizes the need to agree a new legally binding agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in those areas beyond national jurisdiction that make up most of our ocean i'm proud that the uk played a big role in strengthening that pledge insisting on the strongest possible language but the challenge now of course is to turn those powerful words into action good luck with the rest of your discussions and thank you thank you zack goldsmith minister of state for in a coma office the department of international development and the department of environment food and real affairs for the uk government and ocean champion if you don't get inspired and enthused and energized by that i don't know what will great words from the minister and that having that commitment for the uk government and hopefully giving you the confidence that the ocean will be a main part of cop 26 going forward ladies and gentlemen it has been an interesting hour to have spent with you fascinating panelists hopefully getting you inspired about the art of potential the solutions that are there and indeed that you need to be a part of this we have talked about the importance of science the urgency the inclusivity the partnerships that are going forward the role of business can play the decade of ocean science and getting involved with that and indeed rounding this off by the commitment that governments are willing to make as far as the ocean concerned