Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean
9 – 13 June, 2025
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Dear Co-worker,
The Cycle of Conferences is placing a focus, beginning today, on the 2025 UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France. The theme ‘Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean’ shines a light on humanity’s relationship with the ocean.
As Fiji’s Ambassador Peter Thomson, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, has recently said: “With every year that passes, our ocean action work becomes ever more vital, vital in the truest sense of that word. With ocean temperatures continuing to rise alarmingly, as a direct result sea level rise is accelerating, marine ecosystems are undergoing inexorable change, and coral is dying.”
The Conference takes place at a time when global cooperation for all fields of sustainable development is facing significant challenges. Our work in the Cycles project is to invoke energies of divine will, visualizing these becoming anchored in human consciousness as living seeds of the will-to-good, vitalizing the spiritual atmosphere within which thinking about ‘ocean action work’ can truly transform humanity’s relations with the oceans.
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The Ocean Conference and the ‘Cycles’ Initiative
Humanity made an important decision during the Second World War to fight for a future world order centred in principles of Freedom, Human Rights, and Human Unity and to fight against efforts by a group of governments to build a world around ideals of separation and control. During the period immediately following the War, the Tibetan noted that it was “essential that all aspirants and disciples throw the weight of their spiritual development and the light of their souls on the side of the Forces attempting to plan for the good of humanity, and who regard the welfare of the whole as of far greater importance than any national situation or demand.” Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 450. International conferences and councils during that period were impacted and overshadowed by energies of divine purpose, and the Tibetan noted that the planning for a new order imbued with a concern to support the good of humanity and the welfare of the whole would necessarily require many world conferences. We can envisage this cycle of conferences as an on-going process, reaching into this time and the decades to come.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. Following an early spate of Conferences when international law and the UN system was taking shape, the cycle referred to by the Tibetan did not gather momentum until the 1990’s. Since then, there has been an almost constant cycle of global events seeking to address world problems and to plan from the perspective of the good of the whole and a world that works for all.
A characteristic of the current cycle includes events planned to build right relations between humanity and the natural world (including the elements of earth, fire, wind and water), aiming to build pathways towards humanity becoming wise stewards of the planet earth. This coming Ocean Conference marks the third time that governments, civil society, marine ecologists, fishing and shipping companies have gathered to develop plans and concentrate efforts to fulfil Sustainable Development Goal 14, notably to “conserve the oceans, seas and marine resources” so that these can be used “sustainably”.
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Every Drop of Moisture is a Tiny Life
the sum total of water upon the earth (oceans, seas, rivers, lakes and streams), far exceeds the dry portion, or land, and every drop of moisture is in itself a tiny life, fulfilling its function and running its cycle. The mythic forms [of these] myriad lives are built into a form through which an evolutionary deva is seeking expression.
Alice Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. p. 897
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Conservation and Sustainable use of the Ocean
During the first UN Ocean Conference in 2017 commitments were made by individual governments, organisations, businesses and so on to take actions designed to conserve the oceans and ensure that development was sustainable and protected the wellbeing of the marine environment. Since then, the governments and groups making the commitments have merged into nine Communities of Ocean Action, collaborating and organizing around the following themes:
· Coral Reefs
· Implementation of International Law as Reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
· Mangroves
· Marine and Coastal Ecosystems management
· Marine pollution
· Ocean Acidification
· Scientific Knowledge, Research, Capacity Development and Transfer of Marine Technology
· Sustainable Blue Economy
· Sustainable Fisheries.
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Participation in the Cycles Initiative
The Cycles Initiative is a subjective service. Participants link together as a group to use the visualization as a contribution to the mental and spiritual atmosphere of the Conference. Furthermore participants are encouraged to read the passage on the Cycle of Conferences in The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, pages 445 – 468; to review the article on the inspiration for the project; and to find their own way of engaging with the conference – perhaps watching some of the official or unofficial discussions online through UN Web TV, or following the event on social media, or perhaps checking out the UN website for the conference or other sites exploring the theme of humanity’s relationship with the oceans.
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Our work with the 2025 UN Ocean Conference begins today and ends on June 13th.
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