- Date: 22 July 2025
- Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
- Format: Hybrid
- Location: AU Mission to the UN, New York
- Registration: All participants will need to register in advance of the meeting: register here
- Partner: Co-organised by the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD), in partnership with Malta, African and OECD countries
The ocean is a vital global resource for achieving the SDGs. However, it faces significant pressures from climate change, pollution, agricultural runoff, coastal infrastructure and overfishing. With the global ocean economy projected to double by 2030, governments face the challenge of balancing economic growth, environmental sustainability and social well-being. Sustainable use of the ocean requires coherent management of all sectors of human activities affecting it, including industries such as fisheries, offshore renewables, shipping and marine tourism, and the impacts of related policies on future generations and other countries.
The purpose of this event is to share experiences and identify potential opportunities for collaboration among OECD members and countries from the African Union in enhancing policy coherence for sustainable management of ocean resources to accelerate progress on the SDGs and continental frameworks, including Agenda 2063.
Its specific objectives are to:
- Exchange knowledge on institutional mechanisms that contribute to more coherent ocean governance at global, regional and national level.
- Identify innovative solutions and policy tools that can be used to identify and address policy interactions and transboundary impacts in the management of ocean resources.
- Formulate recommendations for improving horizontal and vertical policy coherence to ensure a sustainable ocean economy that benefits people ‘here and now’, ‘elsewhere’ and ‘later’.
- Unfold the outcomes of the OECD-APRM PCSD Programme in Africa.