New Depths Spotlights - UN World Oceans Day 2024

Through 5-minute spotlight presentations, this segment will share personal stories, discoveries, and innovations that touch our hearts to move us towards change. Featuring: moderator Derek Blasberg (Fashion Editor and Curator), Rayne Sullivan (Founder, SEASTORIA), Eman Mounir (Climate Journalist), Dave Erasmus (Chair, Aqoustics). We don’t have time for “out of sight, out of mind.” Our relationship to the ocean needs to urgently change, and our efforts have only skimmed the surface to date. To motivate widespread momentum for the ocean, we need to awaken new depths. UN WOD 2024 took us on a journey of discovery through the ocean’s vastness, tapping into the wisdom and expertise of global policy-makers, scientists, thought leaders, and artists to expand our perspectives and appreciation for our blue planet, build new foundations for our relationship to the ocean, and ignite a wave of action towards necessary change. UN World Oceans Day 2024 is hosted by the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (UN DOALOS) of the Office of Legal Affairs in partnership with Oceanic Global. *While the official UN designation for World Oceans Day is 8 June, the 2024 event will be celebrated on Friday, 7 June