{"id":4158,"date":"2011-12-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2011\/12\/02\/woc-works-with-the-economist-on-world-oceans-summit\/"},"modified":"2011-12-02T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T05:00:00","slug":"woc-works-with-the-economist-on-world-oceans-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/woc-works-with-the-economist-on-world-oceans-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"WOC works with The Economist on World Oceans Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The event will take place in Singapore, 22-24 February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The World Ocean Council (WOC) is a member of the summit\u2019s Advisory Board and the WOC Executive Director, Paul Holthus, is an invited plenary speaker. The WOC is working closely with <em>The Economist<\/em> to ensure the program for the gathering is balanced and includes solid representation from the ocean business community.<\/p>\n<p>Several WOC Members are invited speakers, including: Spyros Polemis, Chairman, International Chamber of Shipping and Tim Smith, Chief Executive Officer, North Asia, Maersk Line. Other confirmed speakers include: Robert Zoellick, President, World Bank; Teo Chee Hean Deputy Prime Minister, Government of Singapore; and Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.<\/p>\n<p>The summit will present a robust and objective multi-stakeholder examination of critical issues affecting the future of the seas such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can the economic potential of the oceans be realised in a sustainable way?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of global leadership and collaboration is needed to address the challenges of ocean sustainability?<\/li>\n<li>Could new governance frameworks deliver better results for the oceans?<\/li>\n<li>How can business take the lead in reducing the footprint of human activities in the oceans?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist is organising the World Oceans Summit, which will bring together a program of over 200 global leaders from various sectors, including business, government, academia, international organisations and NGOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}