Expanding the Global Dialogue
We’re igniting a broader community around a new ocean-climate agenda.
Ocean Visions was created to confront and solve big, complex threats to the ocean. We act as an innovator and catalyzer, identifying promising new strategies and mobilizing diverse disciplines and sectors to advance the bold new solutions we need in the face of accelerating climate disruption.
Our vision? Reset our goal from 1.5-2°C of warming and being worse off than we are today, to a more inspiring target of restoring our climate and ocean.
On the World Stage
We strive to reach and influence a broader community of solvers at the ocean-climate nexus. Engagement highlights include:
- COP: The climate COP is an annual meeting of delegates from nearly every country to negotiate global goals for tackling climate change, present their individual countries’ plans for contributing to those goals, and report on their progress. COP stands for the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- Ocean Visions at COP29 | 2024
- Ocean Visions at COP28 | 2023
- Ocean Visions at COP27 | 2022
- Ocean Visions at COP26 | 2021
- Climate Week NYC: An annual climate‑focused event week hosted every September in New York City, timed to run alongside the United Nations General Assembly.
- UN Ocean Decade Conference: The major global convening marking the halfway point of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030).
- AGU Annual Meeting: The largest gathering of Earth and space scientists in the world, held every December and hosted by the American Geophysical Union.
- Ocean Sciences Meeting: A major biennial international conference focused on ocean science:
- World Ocean Summit: An annual global event bringing together the widest cross-section of the ocean community from business and finance to governments, national and international policy-makers, civil society and academia.
- Ocean Visions at the tenth annual World Ocean Summit and Expo | February 2023
- Ocean Visions at the tenth annual World Ocean Summit and Expo | February 2023
- TEDxBoston: An independently organized TEDx event in the Greater Boston area renowned for bringing together thinkers, innovators, and community leaders to share “ideas worth spreading” in a live, TED-style format.