Saturday 21 January 2017

WEF, UCSB partner to protect world’s $2.5 trn ocean economy

WEF, UCSB partner to protect world’s $2.5 trn ocean economy
Switzerland based World Economic Forum announced a partnership with the UCSB’s Marine Science Institute to improve health of world’s oceans and maritime resources on January 20, 2017. Aim: To protect world’s USD 2.5 trillion ocean economy. This partnership will help the international
community to meet the ocean sustainable development goal. It will be supported by the Benioff Ocean Initiative, an applied programme within the WEF ,University of California, Santa Barbara’s (UCSB) Marine Science Institute, using science to improve ocean health, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, a fund to advance ocean science, protection and management.

WEF :
♦ Headquarters: Cologny, Switzerland
♦ Founder: Klaus Schwab
♦ Founded: 1971

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