UN Ocean Education 2030 Highlights Youth Leadership

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The Third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC 3) was held in Nice, France from June 9 to 13, 2025. Under the theme “Mobilising All Forces, Accelerating Actions, Protecting and Sustainably Using the Ocean,” the conference brought together 15,000 participants from over 125 countries, including 90 heads of state and 3,000 scientists, aiming to place the ocean at the top of the global agenda and jointly address the increasingly urgent climate crisis.

On June 13, 2025, as one of the side events of this UN Ocean Conference, the “Ocean Education 2030 – Youth Empowerment for Ocean Governance” side event, jointly organised by the Tianjin Eco-city Friend of Green Eco-Culture Promotion Association and Grouphorse Group, was held at Shanghai Greenland Mansion.This conference focused on ocean education and youth empowerment, aiming to inject new vitality into global ocean sustainable development and build a solid bridge between youth and ocean governance.

Three experts from academia and eight youth representatives engaged in in-depth discussions on topics including ocean education innovation, technology application, and global cooperation through a combination of offline and online formats. Student delegations from Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai Ocean University, Donghua University and other institutions were invited to attend, witnessing together how “academic wisdom + youth creativity” can inject sustainable development momentum into the planet’s blue lifeline.

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