10/10/2025
16:00 - 17:30
Hall 4B: Session Room 2
, Hybrid
Session with interpretation
Why attend
This session will deep dive on lessons learned and opportunities to scale up ocean finance. A new concept underway will be previewed and discussed as an opportunity to tap financial resources stemming from an array of emerging international frameworks and pricing mechanisms.
Session Description
The urgent need to scale finance for ocean conservation and a sustainable blue economy is clear—but current flows remain fragmented and insufficient. This session will explore key barriers and emerging opportunities to unlock ocean-positive finance, with a focus on leveraging private capital and aligning with global frameworks such as the BBNJ Treaty and the Global Biodiversity Framework. The session will also introduce the One Ocean Finance Facility—a new global initiative co-designed by UN agencies, governments, and partners. The Facility aims to mobilise industry-based proceeds and deploy blended finance instruments to crowd in investment, support enterprise development, and finance critical blue infrastructure, particularly in vulnerable and underserved regions. Ahead of COP30, the dialogue will focus on shaping a forward-looking roadmap for systemic and scalable finance solutions—designed to drive measurable impact for people, planet, and ocean economies through strategic partnerships and catalytic capital deployment.Organised by
United Nations Capital Development Fund
Partners
Headquarters
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