Oceans at the Crossroads of Biodiversity, Climate, and Security Issues
Oct 29, 2025 — 03:15 pm - 4:00 PMScène D - Musée de la Marine

Description
(Session co-organized with the Directorate of International Relations and Strategy of the Ministry of Armies and the French Navy).As climate sentinel, reservoir of biodiversity, and subject of global power dynamics, the ocean is at the heart of major climate issues impacting our collective security. As the first witness to climate change—rising temperatures, rising sea levels, acidification, marine heatwaves— the ocean embodies the cascading effects of global greenhouse gas emissions.These upheavals threaten an ecosystem vital to the balance of the planet and the livelihoods of millions of people. The ocean - victim, agent, and subject of climate change - focuses tensions and reveals interdependencies. This discussion, organized a few months after the third United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, aims to bring the ocean back to the forefront of discussions on peace, security, and climate action, in order to help build collective responses that meet the scale of the challenges.






