Strategic and convening roles and contributions of UNEP’s Regional Sea Conventions and Action Plans (RSCAPs) – Addressing the triple planetary crises in the marine environment
When: 29 April 2025 at 11:00-12:30 (KST)
Where: 201+202, Convention Hall, BEXCO, Busan, Republic of Korea
The world faces multiple planetary crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution – often referred to as the “Triple Planetary Crises”. Addressing these challenges requires integrated and comprehensive solutions, as solving the challenges separately in a “one-by-one” approach is not sufficient given the urgency of the situation. Furthermore, some solutions to one of the crises may negatively impact others. And some solutions can – if designed and implemented well – contribute to addressing several crises all at once. Such trade-offs and synergies must be identified and coordinated.
This side event at the 10th Our Ocean Conference will focus on efforts of the UNEP RSCAPs regional seas in promoting coordination and collaboration for the sustainable governance of the marine environment, and in addressing the triple planetary crises.
The convening power and being able to have more harmonized approaches at a regional level is important as RSCAPs both feed into the Global Agenda but also adapt global decisions to be region specific. And then through our programmes and projects, we are also creating impacts on the ground through EBM, MPAs, NBS, etc.
The event will also highlight some of the main achievements in certain key thematic areas as a collective as well as some strategic areas that RSCAPs can contribute to in the future.
Objectives:
- To present recent updates and tailored regional initiatives of ocean governance, in addressing the triple planetary crises in the marine and coastal ecosystems
- To facilitate knowledge sharing on national, regional, and global initiatives in addressing triple planetary crises in the marine environment
- To highlight best practices success stories and key achievements in certain key thematic areas in addressing triple planetary crises
- To promote regional and international cooperation to foster harmonized approaches for addressing triple planetary crises in the marine environment conservation
