UNOC 2025 WORKSHOPS – Mobilising Mediterraneas in the run-up to the United Nations Ocean Conference

Mediterranean cities and territories are uniting in preparation for the United Nations Ocean Conference 2025 (UNOC3).

The land-sea interface plays a key role in climate resilience and poses major challenges in terms of territorial planning and development. To meet these challenges, it is essential to successfully integrate sea and water management into territorial strategies.

The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 2025), which will be held in Nice in June 2025 co-hosted by France and Costa Rica, represents a unique opportunity for Mediterranean territories. They will mobilise to make their voice heard within the Coalition of Coastal Cities and Coastal Regions of the World, launched and chaired by Christian ESTROSI, Mayor of Nice, President of the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis, Deputy President of the SUD – Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region.

The Agency for Sustainable Mediterranean Cities and Territories (AVITEM) is helping to prepare the Mediterranean dimension of this coalition, as coordinator of a dynamic approach of co-construction and exchanges that brings together a network of expert partners in four international workshops, organised in various Mediterranean territories.

A workshop-declaration process, from collective intelligence to co-production, resulting in a joint statement “The Voice of the Mediterranean“, a series of priorities for the future of the Mediterranean, which will be presented at the UNOC 2025 Conference.