The greatest economic and social value of our ocean lies not in the short-sighted goal of dividing up the rights to extract its resources, but in protecting the ocean’s biodiversity, physical structures and biogeochemical functioning—the ocean’s integrity and rights as a living system. These aspects are vital to mitigating climate change, reversing our current biodiversity crisis and delivering the conditions for a sustainable blue economy and a life of well-being globally. Protecting the ocean cannot be solely a precautionary step taken through environmental impact assessments prior to extractive permissions. Instead, it should arise through a wholesale reorientation in which the protection of the ocean’s integrity and health is understood as a sacred global trust of co-inherited wealth, our global blue natural capital.

Listen here to keynote address "Towards an Equitable and Nature-Positive Economy"

Listen here to a panel discussion with Ministers from Nigeria, Liberia, Cameroon and Gabon discuss the problems of human-elephant conflict and engaging around a new paradigm presented by Ralph Chami to value forest elephants for their carbon sequestration services.

Listen here to an interview renowned British biologist, activist, and adventurer, Niall McCann and financial economist, musician and humanist, Ralph Chami talking about the wonders of nature and how to protect it.