GOAL 14: Life Below Water

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources

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The ocean drives global systems that make the Earth habitable for humankind. Our rainwater, drinking water, weather, climate, coastlines, much of our food, and even the oxygen in the air we breathe, are all ultimately provided and regulated by the sea.

Careful management of this essential global resource is a key feature of a sustainable future. However, at the current time, there is a continuous deterioration of coastal waters owing to pollution, and ocean acidification is having an adversarial effect on the functioning of ecosystems and biodiversity. This is also negatively impacting small scale fisheries.

Saving our ocean must remain a priority. Marine biodiversity is critical to the health of people and our planet. Marine protected areas need to be effectively managed and well-resourced and regulations need to be put in place to reduce overfishing, marine pollution and ocean acidification.

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17:00 - 18:30 CET, Geneva | 11:00-12:30 EST, New York
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28 September 2022
17:00 - 18:30 CEST, Geneva | 11:00-12:30 EST, New York | 23:00-00:30 CST, Beijing
Laurent Durieux (GEO), Philip Stier (University of Oxford), Xiao Xiang Zhu (Technical University of Munich)...
15 December 2022
08:00 - 09:30 CET Geneva | 18:00-19:30 AEDT, Sydney | 15:00-16:30 CST, Beijing
Joanna Batstone (Monash Data Futures Institute at Monash University), Bernd Meyer (Monash Data Futures Institute), Iadine Chades (CSIRO)...
14 February 2023
16:00 - 17:30 CET, Geneva | 10:00-11:30 EST, New York | 22:00-23:30 CST, Beijing
Robert Katzschmann (ETH Zurich), Barbara Mazzolai (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IIT), Cecilia Laschi (National University of Singapore)...
20 February 2023
16:00 - 17:30 CET Geneva | 10:00-11:30 EST, New York | 23:00-00:30 CST, Beijing
David Cooper (Convention on Biological Diversity), Andrew Gonzalez (McGill University), Mike Gill (NatureServe’s Biodiversity Indicators Program)...
6 March 2023
17:00 - 18:30 CET Geneva | 08:00-09:30 PST, San Diego | 00:00-01:30 CST, Beijing
Scott Loarie (iNaturalist), Mike Gill (NatureServe’s Biodiversity Indicators Program)
8 May 2023
17:00 - 18:30 CEST Geneva | 08:00-09:30 PDT, San Diego | 23:00-00:30 CST, Beijing
Giovanni Rapacciuolo (NatureServe), María Cecilia Londoño (Humboldt Institute), Mike Gill (NatureServe’s Biodiversity Indicators Program)
5 June 2023
16:00 - 17:30 CEST Geneva | 19:30-21:00 IST, Bengaluru | 10:00-11:30 EDT, New York
Milind Tambe (Harvard University), Lily Xu (Harvard University), María Cecilia Londoño (Humboldt Institute)...
6 July 2023
09:00 - 17:30 CEST Geneva | 03:00-11:30 EDT, New York | 15:00-23:30 CST, Beijing
7 July 2023
09:00 - 17:30 CEST Geneva | 03:00-11:30 EDT, New York | 15:00-23:30 CST, Beijing
Alessandra Sala (Shutterstock), Orly Lobel (University of San Diego), Samantha Maloney (The Surfrajettes)
17 July 2023
17:00 - 18:30 CEST Geneva | 10:00-11:30 COT, Bogotá | 11:00-12:30 EDT, New York
Juan M. Daza ( Universidad de Antioquia), Juan Sebastián Ulloa (Institute Alexander von Humboldt), María Cecilia Londoño (Humboldt Institute)...
20 July 2023
17:00 - 18:30 CEST Geneva | 08:00-09:30 PDT, San Francisco | 23:00-00:30 CST, Beijing
Andrea Michi (Google DeepMind), Daniel Mankowitz (Google DeepMind), Bastiaan Quast (International Telecommunication Union)
1 August 2023
16:00 - 16:30 CEST Geneva | 10:00-10:30 EDT, New York | 22:00-22:30 CST, Beijing
Doreen Bogdan, Martin (ITU), Lila Ibrahim (Google DeepMind)
2 August 2023
16:00 - 16:35 CEST Geneva | 10:00-10:35 EDT, New York | 22:00-22:35 CST, Beijing
Yuval Noah Harari (Sapienship), Nicholas Thompson (The Atlantic)
9 August 2023
16:00 - 16:20 CEST Geneva | 10:00-10:20 EDT, New York | 22:00-22:20 CST, Beijing
Juan Lavista Ferres (Microsoft AI for Good Lab)
15 August 2023
16:00 - 16:20 CEST Geneva | 10:00-10:20 EDT, New York | 22:00-22:20 CST, Beijing
17 August 2023
16:00 - 17:20 CEST Geneva | 10:00-11:20 EDT, New York | 22:00-23:20 CST, Beijing
Stuart Russell (UC-Berkeley), Amir Banifatemi (AI Commons), Baroness Joanna Shields (Precognition)
30 August 2023
16:00 - 16:10 CEST Geneva | 10:00-10:10 EDT, New York | 22:00-22:10 CST, Beijing
13 September 2023
16:00 - 17:00 CEST Geneva | 10:00-11:00 EDT, New York | 22:00-23:00 CST, Beijing
Gary Marcus (NYU), H.E. Mr. Jürg Lauber (Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva), Jennifer Woodard (Insikt Intelligence)...
25 September 2023
17:00 - 18:30 CEST Geneva | 16:00-17:30 BST, London | 11:00-12:30 EDT, New York
Mike Gill (NatureServe’s Biodiversity Indicators Program), Matilda Brown (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
23 October 2023
17:00 - 18:30 CEST Geneva | 11:00-12:30 EDT, New York | 23:00-00:30 CST, Beijing
Eliot Miller (Cornell University), Grant van Horn (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Mike Gill (NatureServe’s Biodiversity Indicators Program)
31 January 2024
17:00 - 18:15 CET Geneva | 11:00-12:15 EST, New York | 00:00-01:15 CST, Beijing
Danielle Maddix Robinson (AWS AI Labs), Markus Reichstein (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)
6 February 2024
16:00 - 17:30 CET Geneva | 10:00-11:30 EST, New York | 23:00-00:30 CST, Beijing
Martin Ludvigsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Tianlu Wang (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), Nic Carey (Autodesk Robotics Laboratory)...
9 February 2024
11:00 - 11:15 CET Geneva | 05:00-05:15 EST, New York | 18:00-18:15 CST, Beijing
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31 May 2024
09:00 - 17:30 CEST Geneva | 03:00-11:30 EDT, New York | 15:00-23:30 CST, Beijing
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6 August 2024
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