Thank you for being part of Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean
As Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean concluded after UNOC 2025, this site will remain online through 2025 as a resource and record of our shared journey.
To stay connected or learn more about the Protection Principle, feel free to get in touch.
Walk the Nice talk - better yet, run!
At the Third UN Ocean Conference, held in Nice from 9 to 13 June, our call for protection-first ocean governance resonated strongly. Backed by our six partners and by over 110 organisations, the Protection Principle was clearly heard — including multiple times in the official Plenary. The question now is whether leaders will deliver.
Read our post-Nice op-ed published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
The Protection Principle library
From concept to momentum: perspectives shaping the Protection Principle in practice
- Walking the Nice Talk, op-ed on IISD.org, June 2025.
- La Pêche Industrielle avale chaque année [...], op-ed in Le Monde, June 2025
- Publication: 'Bringing the Protection Principle into Action', June 2025
- 'Et si la protection de l'océan devenait la règle, et non plus l'exception?' op-ed in La Tribune, March 2025
- 'The Protection Principle: Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean' published in FPA2 Impact Magazine. April 2025
- Publication: 'Advancing the Protection Principle', October 2024
- 'Le chalutage et l’exploitation minière des grands fonds marins représentent le contraire de ce dont l’océan a besoin' op-ed in Le Monde, September 2024
- Publication: 'Civil Society Approaches to Ocean Protection', June 2024
- ‘Everybody knows, but the dice are still loaded’, op-ed on IISD.org, April 2024
- 'Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean' op-ed on IISD.org, November 2023
- Publication: 'Let's Be Nice to the Ocean: Thinking Outside The Box', November 2023
Ambassador Peter Thomson, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Ocean
Dr Sylvia Earle, Founding President, Mission Blue Explorer-at-Large of the National Geographic Society
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An initiative coordinated by The Varda Group
Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean is an initiative coordinated by The Varda Group in cooperation with the Ocean & Climate Platform and in partnership with TBA21-Academy, Dona Bertarelli Philanthropy, the Tara Ocean Foundation, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, and MedPAN.