(from left to right) A panel of, Farah Yasmin Obaidullah (Ocean advocate and founder Women4Oceans), Sofia Tsenikli (Senior political strategist, Greenpeace International), Javier Bardem (Actor and environmental activist), Sandra Schöttner (Marine biologist and political project lead for the “Protect the Oceans” campaign, Greenpeace Germany) and Jennifer Jacquet, (Environmental scientist, New York University) at a side event organised by Greenpeace International at the United Nations.

A delegation of Greenpeace International representatives are attending the third session of an Intergovernmental Conference on an international legally instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. Delegates are currently at the UN in New York and negotiate towards an historic Global Ocean Treaty.