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Ocean Unite

Engaging, activating and innovating change; and accelerating investment that builds ocean health and resilience.

ACTIVATING Delivering ocean protection messages at key moments
INNOVATING Building constituencies and reaching new audiences
INVESTING Building ocean health and resilience

#OneOceanOnePlanet

The ocean gives us life, it provides half the oxygen we breathe, absorbs a quarter of our CO2 emissions and over 90% of the heat from those emissions, puts food on our plates and is home to 80% of all life on Earth.

But it is in danger – and so are we. You may not be able to tell from above the surface, but the threats are many and the risks are real: plastic is choking sea life, pollution is causing ‘dead zones’, corals are dying, the Ocean is warming and becoming more acidic, and too many boats are chasing fewer and fewer fish.

Luckily, it’s not too late to solve this crisis if we take urgent action NOW. Given a chance the ocean has amazing powers to regenerate and adapt.

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OCEAN UNITE

Ocean Unite’s expert team is working to catalyse Ocean regeneration by engaging and activating audiences on the importance of the ocean, as well as innovating change and accelerating investment in building ocean health and resilience.

We deploy our network of over 30 global influencers from the worlds of politics, business, sport and media to deliver crucial Ocean messages to decision-makers at key moments that matter, ensure that at least 30 per cent of the ocean is highly protected by 2030, and to build ocean resilience.

Because the Ocean is Everybody’s Business, we also work with companies to highlight the importance of the ocean and to encourage them to ‘blue’ their businesses.
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Antarctica2020

Explore, use and share talking points on the key issues affecting our ocean.

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Ocean Unite Network

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BLUE PROSPERITY COALITION

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Innovating Change

Ocean Everybody's business

Leading from the front to drive urgently needed positive change for the Ocean community.

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Ocean Risk Summit

Hear the latest stories from those working “on-the-water”.

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Virgin Voyages

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Accelerating Investment

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LATEST STORIES

Paris Peace Forum: High ambitions for the high seas

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Ocean protection is a responsibility we can’t ignore

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Six key take-homes from the Our Ocean conference

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oceanuniteOceanUnite@oceanunite·
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Recent research has found that unborn generations will face a rising #ocean and coastal inundations into the 2300s even if governments meet #climate commitments. https://buff.ly/32miyOY via @guardianeco #OneOceanOnePlanet

OceansRichardRichard Page@OceansRichard·
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Today is the first day of the @ParisPeaceForum and the @HighSeasAllianc is present to call on the world leaders so that the UN treaty process results in real legal protection for #HighSeas biodiversity: https://bit.ly/34U8m1R @VirginUnite @oceanunite #OneOceanOnePlanet

oceanuniteOceanUnite@oceanunite·
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The @ParisPeaceForum provides a platform where examples of collective action to tackle global challenges are brought forward. This year the @HighSeasAllianc is present at the forum to call for the adoption of a robust #HighSeas treaty in 2020: https://buff.ly/36QLC4O

oceanuniteOceanUnite@oceanunite·
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Geneviève Pons, Director of @delorsinstitute and #Antarctica2020 member, shares her thoughts on why we must urgently protect #Antarctica and the Southern #Ocean: https://buff.ly/2pbullW @virginunite @genevieve_pons

VirginVirgin@Virgin·
8 Nov

The powerful currents which surge through the Southern Ocean pump nutrient-rich waters to the rest of the ocean, sustaining marine biodiversity globally – and we’re failing to protect it: https://virg.in/i7n @oceanunite @genevieve_pons

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Upcoming

EVENTS

Mar

11-15

2019

United Nations Environment Assembly

Nairobi, Kenya

Issue: All Ocean issues

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Mar

24-25

2019

Monaco Blue Initiative

Issue: MPAs

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Mar

25-5

2019

Intergovernmental conference negotiating a new UN legally binding instrument to conserve high seas biodiversity (2nd session)

New York, USA

Issue: High Seas governance, MPAs

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Apr

1-4

2019

OceanVisions2019 – Climate Summit

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Issue: Ocean, climate

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Apr

4-5

2019

3rd WMU International Women’s Conference

Malmö, Sweden

Issue: Gender, Ocean

Apr

5-6

2019

G7 Foreign Affairs Minister Meeting

France

Issue: Biodiversity, climate

Apr

8-12

2019

12th Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum

Iloilo City, Philippines

Issue: Fisheries and Aquaculture

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Ocean Unite joins the Blue Prosperity Coalition

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Managing the ocean: What role for MPAs?

At the World Ocean Summit in March, leaders from around the world were eager to discuss a prominent issue on the ocean agenda: marine protected areas (MPAs), their enforcement and their impact.

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Partners and Supporters

Renee brings nearly a decade of internal operations experience to the Ocean Unite team. Prior to joining the team, Renee worked for eight years at The Pew Charitable Trusts where she began as an administrative assistant supporting their Shark, Tuna, and Whale conservation campaigns as well as the Senior Director of International Ocean Conservation. Particularly adept at identifying operational issues and developing methods to solve them, Renee moved into an operations role working across Pew’s international Ocean conservation projects, then all their environment conservation projects, and later the breadth of Pew’s programmatic work. She has degrees from California State University, San Bernardino, and Temple University in Philadelphia, and recently relocated from Washington, DC, to the California coast. As hard as this team works to protect our magnificent Ocean, Renee is the only person on the team who lives at the beach and relishes in enjoying the beauty of the Ocean every day.

Brittney is Ocean Unite’s digital and social media manager and is a consultant for Communications Inc. Comms Inc. is an agency which works with the not-for-profit sector, with a particular specialism in the ocean and wider environment. They are well known within the international ocean community and enjoy the trust of, and a working relationship with, most of the large international environmental NGOs and coalitions. Recognised for their ability to deliver fast, cost-effective and productive communications and campaigning, they are particularly valued for their strategic contribution based on a sound understanding of the issues, the political landscape within which the issues exist and a creative approach to bringing about change. (www.communicationsinc.co.uk)

One of the principals of Communications Inc., Sophie has nearly 20 years of experience in strategic communications. Comms Inc., is an agency which works with the not for profit sector, with a particular specialism in the ocean and wider environment. They are well known within the international ocean community and enjoy the trust of, and a working relationship with, most of the large international environmental NGOs and coalitions. Recognised for their ability to deliver fast, cost-effective and productive communications and campaigning, they are particularly valued for their strategic contribution based on a sound understanding of the issues, the political landscape within which the issues exist and a creative approach to bringing about change (www.communicationsinc.co.uk).

Nathalie has almost two decades of experience working in environmental advocacy. She worked for over 15 years for Greenpeace International, focusing mainly on biodiversity issues. For many years she worked as Senior Oceans Political Advisor focusing on international ocean governance and marine conservation. More recently she was the deputy director of the Political and Business Unit. She has wide experience of attending and leading delegations at international environmental meetings, including the Convention on Biological Diversity, Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species, and ocean-related negotiations at the UN General Assembly. When asked why she feels strongly about protecting the ocean, she says that not only is it home to the weirdest and most wonderful creatures on the planet, tomorrow’s life-saving drugs could be found at the bottom of the sea, not to mention the discovery of an anti-wrinkle cream that actually works!

Karen has over 25 years of experience working for international non-governmental organisations on environmental issues around the world with a particular focus on protecting marine biodiversity and building resilience to climate change. In 2015, Sack established Ocean Unite, co-founded by Sir Richard Branson and former Costa Rican President José María Figueres, to engage leadership voices and the business community to accelerate ocean health and resilience. Ocean Unite is committed to helping secure the strong protection of 30 per cent of the ocean by 2030. It has also developed a groundbreaking partnership with the insurance sector to address ocean risk.

She was senior director for international oceans at The Pew Charitable Trusts, where she developed their international oceans program including their ending illegal fishing strategy and initiated and was the managing partner of the Global Ocean Commission. Before that she was head of Greenpeace International’s political and business unit and head of their international oceans programme. In 2004, she was the first person from a non-governmental organization to speak at a regular session of the United Nations General Assembly, where she represented the concerns of over 60 environmental organizations from around the world over the plight of our oceans. Karen is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network. She has master’s degrees in international environmental law and in international political economy.