Description/achievement of initiative
In the last summits on SD, States agreed on the need for a joint framework for conservation and sustainable use of ocean resources. To reach this goal, we shall bring together researchers, policy makers, economic stakeholders, local authorities and the general public in dialogue, mutual learning, and action in order to develop the Blue Society concept, a new vision of our life on Earth, in the spirit of sustainability, well-being and equity for mankind in harmony with the World Ocean.
To implement it, we shall identify innovative research themes and governance modes and promote them to be duplicated elsewhere.
World Ocean Network
Global Ocean Forum
Sea For Society IUCN
Agence des aires marines protégées
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO
United Nations Development Program
Ocean Policy Research Foundation
Implementation methodologies
There is a clear need for cooperation among States in marine scientific research and sustainable governance to build the new vision of the Blue Society.
We shall create the framework of the Blue Society by working with civil society, youth and other stakeholders in Europe thanks to the Sea for Society project. The consultation and mobilisation fora will be held to link together innovation and marine ecosystem services.
At the international level, we shall join efforts with World Ocean Network and Global Ocean Forum to feed, promote, and implement the concept of Blue Society with more partners worldwide.
An international expert group, the Blue Society Advisory Panel, will steer the development of the concept. International and European experts from the Global Ocean Forum and IUCN will collaborate with key regional stakeholders worldwide to enrich and promote the Blue Society concept.
With the support of Directorate General Research and Innovation of the European Commission, Business Innovation Centers, science centres and aquariums, research organisations (including the Sea for Society consortium) and business representatives, we shall further translate this concept into actual research and business partnerships.
In 2015, we shall convene an international event on the Blue Society: the Blue Society conference.
Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer
Coordination mechanisms/governance structure
Partner(s)
Nausicaà
World Ocean Network
Global Ocean Forum
Potential partners still to be confirmed
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
United Nations Development Programme
Ocean Policy Research Foundation
Sea for Society consortium
International Union for Conservation of Nature
Agence des Aires Marines Protégées
2012
