Monaco/New York, 8 June 2025 – A collective ofUnited Nations agencies and global partners today launched the co-design process for One Ocean Finance —a bold new effort to unlock billions in new financing from ocean-dependent industries and blue economy sectors.

Governments around the world are struggling to keep pace with rapid technological change, from escalating cyber threats to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Emerging technologies are reshaping global markets, transforming security structures, and redefining how power is exercised. Amidst intensifying geopolitical competition, these advances are testing the resilience

The high-level 2025 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (the 2025 UN Ocean Conference) will be co-hosted by France and Costa Rica and held in Nice, France, from 9 – 13 June 2025.

Conference on James Fishkin's new book, Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? and two different experiments in citizens' assemblies, in France and the United States, on climate and energy: - the French Citizens’ Convention on Climate/ La Convention citoyenne pour le climat (C3) - and America in One Room (AOR)