In this fourth full-length episode recorded live at the UN Ocean Decade conference in Barcelona we are joined by Vivienne Solis Rivera, who was a speaker at the Ocean Decade Plenary Session 4: An Inspiring and Engaging Ocean for All.

This session focused on the 9th and 10th UN Ocean Challenges, skills and knowledge for all and changing humanity’s relationship with the ocean.

Throughout this mini series we have heard about how the global community can come together to protect our oceans, but to save our oceans this has to be done equitably, protecting the access of coastal and indigenous communities with historic links to the ocean.

Vivienne Solis Rivera works for Coope SoliDar in Costa Rica. Their work focuses on helping small scale fishers in Central America protect their access to the ocean and promote marine conservation. She talks about the need for a human rights based approach to ocean conservation and how marine scientists can learn from indigenous communities knowledge of the ocean.

This episode also includes speakers from the Ocean Decade Plenary Session 4 as well as speakers from indigenous communities who addressed the opening of the conference, with their thoughts on how humanity can change its relationship with the ocean.

Host

Jon Baston-Pitt

Guests

Vivienne Solis Rivera, Coope SoliDar

Also featured

Lora Fleming, Professor, European Centre for Environment and Human Health; Chair of Oceans, Epidemiology and Human Health, University of Exeter

Ken Paul, Principal / Owner, Pokiok Associates

Dan Hikuroa, Associate Professor, Te Wānanga o Waipapa, Waipapa Taumata Rau-University of Auckland; Culture Commissioner at UNESCO

Ronaldo Christofoletti, Professor at the Institute of Marine Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP)

K’aayhlda Xyaalaas Rayne Boyko[1] , Marine Planner, Council of the Haida Nation Marine Planning Program

Kil Hltaanuwaay Tayler Brown, Marine Spatial Planner, Council of the Haida Nation Marine Planning Program

Photo credit

IISD/ENB | Mika Schroder

Styling these names in Haida (un-italicised) and English (italics) as this is how they are written on Haida websites and the speaker’s own pages.