 Felly, rym ni'n gwybod, pob cyfwyr yw'r Ffwrdd Rym ni'n gwybod, a'r ffordd yw'r Fyrdd Rym ni'n gwybod, ac mae'n gwybod yma i bobl yma. A'r rym ni'n gwybod i'r Gwmpredinol Pwysig, yma'r beth sy'n gweithio arall. Y 28 yma'r gweithio'r hynny yn fyddi'r yma'r gweithio ar y gweithio ar y gweithio agender. Mae'n gwneud hynny'n gweithio ar y panel byddwn sy'n gwybod i'r gennym a'r gweithio ar y gweithio yma. Gwis gydag o bwysig o'r rhan o'i gwneud ar gwrthod oherwydd a hynny, ond bys gwybod angen sicrhau ac yn benodol sy'n gweithio cyhoeddfa ar gyflengo yw 2017 wrth i fod y First UN Conference ar y gael cymsgwlus i gael gyda bod sy'n gael y 1,400 cymrydau ar gyfligio, cyfligio ar gyfligio, cydynig, cystingo cysgwyd, cyfnodol iaith, ac hynny. Ac rwy'n gyfosio ar unrhyw o darwch ar ganddodol ar hynny os ym 2018 yr 2020 ymlaen o'r prif ei phor dechrau that on this panel because here in Davos January 2018 we're going to hear some announcements about launching some of those action tracks. My name is Dominic Warray. I'm the head of public private partnership here at the World Economic Forum and we are the international organisation for bringing the public and private and civil society together. And I would suggest to you that what you will hear from this panel is a remarkable moment in the gender of a global commons issue which is so pressing and so important for life on earth. And you'll witness the coming together of the governmental community, international organisations, civil society and the private sector into a unified complementary agenda to deliver solutions to save life in the ocean. So with that and with no need for any more introduction from me, let's get into the discussions. I'm delighted to first of all introduce to you Ernest Solberg who as you all well know is the prime minister of Norway and one of the champion countries on many of the environmental issues across all sorts of aspects of the agenda. And we are very grateful to you on behalf of the international community for all the fantastic work and support that Norway provides and also your personal leadership on these issues. But oceans, interesting. And prime minister tell us more. Yes, well Norway has a long history connected to the ocean. In fact Norway is a totally ocean based society. Most of our incomes come from the ocean. Our history comes from the ocean. Norway as a name is in fact the name of the long coastline from the Atlantic to the barren sea, the way to the north Norway. So we are a nation living of shipping offshore oil and gas fisheries, aquaculture. We have long experience in managing marine ecosystems. We have tough environmental standards. Research based knowledge and technological development are key important to us in the development of our society. What we know now is that the global population is growing. It means that the world will need more resources and services also from the ocean such as food, medicine, energy minerals and transport routes. There is a need for sustainable growth in the world's ocean industry to ensure jobs, to ensure income, to ensure social development. There has been several good ocean initiatives that have been launched the recent years. I think there is a need to bring the link between ocean economy and sustainable development more than before. I have therefore taken the initiative to establish an international high level panel on building a sustainable ocean economy. The objective is to increase international understanding on how sustainable use of oceans and the ocean economy can play a key role in meeting the world's most vital needs in the years to come. The ambition is to make a significant contribution to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Goal 14, Life at Sea. I have invited a number of my colleagues from other coastal states from various parts of the world to participate in the panel. President Raymond Gault from Polo and Prime Minister Costa of Portugal has already on board and we are discussing with several other countries around the world to make sure that this is a representative high level panel. It will work closely with the UN and the UN Special Envoy for the Ocean, Mr Thompson. I hope that it will complement other UN initiatives on the oceans. We will get advice and input from representatives from the ocean industries, civil society and research societies. A group of experts will provide scientific reports to the panel and this will form the basis for the type of work that the panel will do. Our ocean conference in Norway in 2019 will be an important milestone for the panel and that will also be a second UN conference on the oceans in 2020. We have the ambition that the high level panel will present its final report in 2020. It is crucial that coastal and maritime countries work together to highlight both the huge potential to be found in building a sustainable ocean economy, but also to make sure that we understand that how we are using the oceans is part of the problem today, so we need to make sure that our work is sustainable. My intention is that this is going to be an open, transparent work, encourage debate from far beyond the panel itself, and there is a need for global political dialogue on how we manage to ensure both healthy and rich oceans for the future. There is a fact that the oceans have more secrets that we don't know about yet when it comes to resources and the life underneath the waters. It's a possibility area, but it's also one of the most challenged areas we have in the world for sustainability in the future. Thank you. Thank you so much, Prime Minister, and what fantastic news a launch of an international panel on oceans and as you say the link to the sustainable development in the economy. It was so interesting when you said that in terms of bringing together not only leaders from government, but you also intonated to draw upon aspects of business and civil society and NGOs. And that, I think, brings us to our next panelist who, of course, as you well know, is a Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, Isabella Loven, and who was one of the co-presidents of the 2017 Ocean Action Conference that the United Nations held. Deputy Prime Minister, from your perspective, what do you see coming up in the year ahead and what are you excited about? Well, I mean, my feelings are on both sides. I'm both excited and I'm also very worried about the situation in our oceans. And last year's UN conference held in New York at the UN headquarters was the biggest ocean conference ever held. And that was really encouraging and that really brings hope to the world because we had so many global leaders there and the commitments made at the UN conference where they exceeded our expectations. There were 1,400 voluntary commitments made at the conference by states, but also by organisations and the private sector and enterprises. And even some ordinary citizens made commitments. And this is what we need now if we're going to have the slightest chance of sustainable oceans by 2030. And in fact, we have some of the goals set under the STG-14 on oceans should be already delivered by 2020. So we should end overfishing by 2020. We should establish 10% of the oceans as marine protected areas in one form or another by 2020. So these challenges are so huge that we see that we really need to catalyze and mobilize the whole global community now and not only states can do this by themselves. But we need science on board, we need civil society on board, but not least we need also finance and we need the private sector and the enterprises being on board. And that's why I'm so glad and honoured that I will be co-chairing a group of friends of ocean action together with the special representative of the oceans of the Secretary General Peter Thompson. And we are bringing together 40 leaders from different sectors that can help catalyze and get the work done that we need to get done. By 2020, when the next oceans conference will be held in Portugal, of course there will be other conferences as well. We need them because we also need to get more action when it comes to saving our oceans. And I think most of you have heard about the trends. What's going on now is with the overfishing, with plastic pollution and acidification of our oceans. We're seeing a dying ocean that will have more plastic than fish by 2050. And this is of course something which is totally unacceptable. We have the resources, we have the knowledge, we can develop the technology where we can prevent this from happening. And this is what this Friends of Ocean action is about, to help create new partnerships and push the right buttons and see that this will actually be prevented. And so the next three years, up until 2020, this group of Friends of Ocean action will be established and will be working very, very hard to make sure that the SDG 14 will be a success. This is in fact something quite unique because this is the first SDG that has really got this great movement going as quickly and as early on in the process. Thank you, Deputy Prime Minister. You said something very, very interesting there. The Friends of Ocean action, a multi-stakeholder movement, a mobilisation of effort to complement and support the governments and international organisations of this world. And then you mentioned how quickly an effort has taken place to mobilise on this particular sustainable development goal, perhaps because of the pressing nature of the challenge that governments, civil society, businesses can see. That's exciting. That sounds like a sprint almost to 2020 to get real action on some of the targets, as you mentioned. I think that several of the SDG targets for oceans are actually supposed to be delivered by 2020. That's a very good chance to bring in our next panasym. Delighted to welcome the founder and chairman of salesforce.com, Mark Benioff. I mean, you must know all about sprints and innovation and getting things done. And you're also a well-known champion of the ocean agenda, sponsoring and supporting many things with your wife, Lynn Benioff, and other initiatives such as the Ocean Benioff Ocean Initiative at Santa Barbara University in California. Does this sound exciting to you? Are there things that you can get behind or any kind of messages you'd like to give the group in this room and those watching? Yes. Well, thank you very much, Dominic. And thank you especially for your leadership at the World Economic Forum. I'm Mark Benioff. I'm the chairman and CEO of Salesforce. We're a San Francisco-based technology company, the largest enterprise cloud computing company and also the largest technology employer in San Francisco. I'm also a trustee of the World Economic Forum. I'm also chairman of the World Economic Forum's fourth industrial revolution center in San Francisco. I think that for those of us who have been coming to the World Economic Forum for a number of years, we realize that having these multi-stakeholder dialogues is an incredibly powerful experience and can indeed raise consciousness and find solutions to problems. And we see that over and over again. I've been coming here since 2002. I'm also extremely interested in the oceans. That's my intersection here. And I live on the ocean in San Francisco. And I also live on the ocean in Hawaii. And I realize and I can see it every day how the oceans are changing. You can see it in the certification. You can see it in plastics. You can see it in overfishing. And you can see it in many of the other areas that have been so well articulated by this group. But what I've been interested in is ways to bring people together to go after this important idea that we can bring greater health to the oceans. And specifically, for the last several years now, we have been bringing ocean content through funding that I've supplied and others, including some great ocean foundations that we work with, tiered to the World Economic Forum here in Davos, as well as in Dayan, in Taïjan, in China, and other key places around the world. This has created a greater multi-stakeholder dialogue, and that's when I realized, especially in conversations with Dominic, that we can take this to a higher level. We can go to a greater place with the World Economic Forum actually as a convening body to work with great international organizations like the UN and the tremendous work that they are doing, and others, including nonprofits, other NGOs, educational institutions. And so I've agreed to supply an additional $4.5 million to give Dominic and his team and the teams of the World Economic Forum the capabilities to go ahead and amplify what we are doing here. Traditionally, the WEF has been about economic issues, hence the name of the conference. But this is so much bigger than economic, and I think we all realize, especially those of us who are here with all these great government officials and NGOs and so forth, that we can take a major initiative like number 14 here, the SDG, to make our oceans healthy again and do that. And specifically, let me speak on the side of the technology industry for just one moment. You look at some huge changes and transformations going on in the technology industry, like artificial intelligence and robotics, or even advancements in biotechnologies like CRISPR and others. We call here at WEF, the Fourth Industrial Revolution. You take those technologies, you apply that with this convening body, and you also connect that back to this incredible issue that we're dealing with the oceans. This is a great time to focus on this. We can really do something. We can make action happen. We can make change happen. We have the leadership, the vision, and the funding. And everyone up here, as well as through the entire World Economic Forum community, is committed to working on oceans, and I couldn't be more excited. So, thank you, Dominic, especially for your leadership and for many others, including Klaus Schwab, our founder, who has so strongly embraced this capability, and I'm delighted that I couldn't be more excited that we're all up here talking about this. Mark, thank you, and thank you very much as well for the leadership that you're showing. Suddenly, this Sustainable Development Goal Action on the Oceans taking on a new angle. We're hearing about technology and innovation and San Francisco and the West Coast meeting classic challenges, whether in the north or the south. For those Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister who inspired the Sustainable Development Goals and sought partnerships in Goal 17, this must be the sort of thing that you were hoping would brew and explode and try to take on these challenges. So, it sounds pretty exciting. Peter Thompson, you've been referenced throughout this panel and now is the time to bring you in. You are the United Nations Secretary General Special Envoy for the Ocean. No pressure down the end of the panel, but everyone is referring to you and the leadership that you're creating and the imprimatur that you're providing across governments and business and civil society to instill this movement in the world and to deliver on the goals and targets of that SDG. How are you feeling about where the agenda is at and what are your thoughts about the year ahead? Thanks, Dominic. First of all, can I just thank the three speakers who've preceded me. Prime Minister of Norway in setting up this high level panel is doing us a great service in the area of the sustainable blue economy in particular. This is an area of deep interest to developing countries, as well as developed countries in the north. The work that this high level panel will be doing, heads of government level, relates to remember, will result in a report which will grow over the next three years. As I understand it, at various way stations we'll be discussing it internationally, but we'll end up in what is expected to be the second UN Ocean Conference in 2020. So it's a great initiative and I really applaud the Prime Minister for that and while I'm speaking about that on behalf of the United Nations, I really want to thank her for the many years of service that she's given in leadership for the sustainable development goals. I mean this cannot be understated. The sustainable development goals are humanity's recipe for saving our species on this planet. Either we implement them or we place our children and grandchildren in jeopardy. So thank you, Prime Minister. To Isabella Lovinn, who was at Sweden and Fiji with the co-presidents of the Ocean Conference, I mean Fiji could not have had a more stalwart ally than Sweden in pushing for the conference. We had to fight to get it and having got it to make it as meaningful as it was, I can't say enough in praise of the government of Sweden and Isabella Lovinn in particular for making all that happen. I do believe that the June 2017 was the turning point in terms of global consciousness and global, the need for global action in the face of ocean change. To Mark, that generosity you're ever enthusiastic attitude on ocean action is so deeply appreciated. This is just one more chapter in the work that you've done for the ocean so I'm on behalf of the ocean. I really want to thank you for making this possible because what it does make possible is for WEF to assemble a group of experts. I'll be working, my office in Paris will be working with that group of experts and with WRI and assembling really the best of knowledge that we can to support both the high level panels work and of course the Friends of Ocean actions work over the next three years. This is all project bound towards 2020. We're in the years of implementation now so we want to hold ourselves accountable in 2020. We want to be able to at that second UN conference assess our successes and our failures because we'll then have 10 years left of SDG 14 to save the ocean and we need to adjust in 2020. Look, we do have a plan to save the ocean. It's called SDG 14. If you haven't seen the 10 targets, please familiarize yourself with them. I firmly believe that while, yes, the ocean is in a cycle of decline, I firmly believe that with SDG 14 we have the necessary plan taken in combination with the Paris Climate Agreement to save the ocean and hand over to our grandchildren an ocean that is not dead or just full of slimy things. There are very good things happening now. Since June there's been this flowering of ocean action and you've seen examples up here from the three previous speakers of exactly that, but bear in mind that last December the United Nations two very important steps were taken. One was the announcing of the Marine of the, sorry, the International Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. That is going to be from 2021 to 2030 when we expect unprecedented attention to be given to ocean science and research and technology transfer. That is so necessary because we know more about the face of Mars and the face of the moon than we do about what's down the bottom of our ocean. The second really important thing was that finally there was consensus and agreement on the fact that we would have an international conference on what is called BBNJ. You're going to see that word a lot over the next couple of years. BBNJ stands for Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdictions, and this is, you know, you've seen reference to sort of piracy at the high seas. Well it's true, we don't have much law covering what happens outside national jurisdictions, so these BBNJ conferences are going to be extremely important to saving the integrity of the ocean and they will result in international law which will be subsumed into unclos. So good things are happening and I could list a whole bunch more of them but I won't because the purpose of today's meeting really is to let you know about these three great initiatives that you've just heard about. And I really look forward to working with both the high level panel and with the Friends of Ocean Action and with WEF in making them do what they're designed to do which is implement SDG 14. Thank you. Thank you Special Envoy. So we have a few minutes for questions. I know Mr Benioff that your time might be pressed so if you are needing to go then we won't be perturbed if you walk off. It won't be because of a bad question or a bad answer I'm sure. But if anybody from the audience would like to ask a question, yes. Tell us who you are. Helena Humphrey, Deutsche Weller News Berlin. We know that oil spills, plastic pollution, air pollution deal, really heavy blows to the ocean and we also then know that the US president's climate policy is a significant blow as well to your campaign and also bearing in mind that the United States voted against a UN resolution on plastic waste last year. How much then of a blow is that to your campaign and the things you're trying to achieve here? I mean if I could put that to Prime Minister Solberg please. Well I, the reason why we are launching a high level panel is to show the interlinkage between the oceans, the economy and how many jobs that is connected to it and how important it is to deal with these pollution problems, to deal with how make sure that the water is safe. But also to see how we can explore in a sustainable way. And I believe in the argument of economy and jobs. I believe that showing that sustainability and jobs go hand in hand is the future. That means that we have to do something about the plastic because we will not be able to have fish and there will be no jobs in the fisheries, there will not be fishermen, there will be a lot of different things that is happening if we are ending up eating plastic instead of fish. Fish is a very healthy protein, it will not be healthy if it's plastic. So I think that's one of the reasons because we need to show these arguments together and see the economy of it. That cleaning up the oceans has a good economy for jobs and creation in the future. And I still believe that jobs and economy is a good argument also to meet the American President and the current administration. Can I also say having lived in New York for the last seven years that one observes that in terms of climate action and ocean action the ideas, the philanthropies, the resources, the commitment from cities, from companies, from people is one of the strongest in the world. Whatever current governments may say the American people are one of the strongest supporters of climate action and ocean action and I have witnessed that and I think all the polls showed in America as well. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. It looks like we have an audience waiting to come back next year and seeing what has been delivered from the international panel that was launched and the mobilization of effort with the Friends of Ocean Action. So on behalf of the World Economic Forum here at Davos in 2018 may I thank once again our panelists, the Prime Minister of Norway, the Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, the Chairman, CEO, founder of Salesforce.com and the United Nations Secretary General Special Envoy for the Ocean. See you in 12 months and this group will report on how we have got on. Wish you a very good afternoon. Thank you very much everyone.