From 9 to 13 June 2025 in Nice, 175 States, 64 Heads of State, 115 ministers and more than 12,000 delegates* met to discuss crucial issues for the ocean.

✅ Encouraging progress :

🔹 Acceleration of ratifications of the BBNJ Treaty for governance on the high seas,

🔹 Launch of the Neptune Mission, which will bring together oceanographic expertise and the best technologies, including space technology, to invest in useful knowledge that is freely accessible to all parties. It will provide the essential knowledge base for the implementation of the ‘BBNJ Agreement’.

🔹 A total of €8.7 billion committed over the next five years by philanthropists, private investors and public banks, in support of a sustainable and regenerative blue economy.

🔹 Against plastic pollution, 96 countries have signed the declaration ‘Nice wake up call for an ambitious plastics treaty’, ahead of the negotiations to be held in August 2024 in Geneva.

➡️ Given the urgency of the situation, however, these decisions remain insufficient and still lack binding force, particularly with regard to Marine Protected Areas, bottom trawling and Deep Sea Mining.

🤞 While political commitments remain too timid, civil society, scientists and other committed players have been able to make a noise and show their strength. A real source of hope with an unprecedented mobilisation! 

For our part, the Pure Ocean team was fully mobilised ⤵️

🏊‍♂️ Watch The Sea For Pure Ocean: a committed sporting challenge to link performance and conscience,

🙌 A speech by David Sussmann at the Blue Economic Finance Forum,

🤝 A side event at Plage Beau Rivage with our sponsors, partners and project leaders: a link, meaning and action.

🐋 3 highlights at La Baleine :

Presentation of the Floating Reef project

Conference on plastic pollution and the projects we support

Screening of our documentary HIDDEN SECRET

👥 And above all, hundreds of meetings!

The UNOC has shown that while the political will still needs to be strengthened, the mobilisation of civil society is stronger than ever. We leave determined to carry the voice of science to protect the future of us all. 👊

*unocnice2025.org figures