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HANDOVER PROFILE

Like a relay baton for the ocean, Nature’s Baton was
passed between the stakeholders involved in COP26
negotiations in Glasgow, in Brest during the One The Ocean Race is hosting a series of 12 summits
Ocean Summit followed by the Seychelles a few days (2019-2023) bringing together high-level seamen
later prior to Monaco Ocean Week, during The Ocean and global decision makers with the aim of creating
Race, where it was handed over to the President a global collective effort to implement new policies
Wavel Ramkalawan who in turn passed it on to young and thus protect the seas sustainably.
Seychelles champions of the sea. Having just arrived
from the Indian Ocean, Ambassador Peter Thomson
did not break the “blue thread” created by the initiative
Relay4Nature. As a conveyor of this symbolic voice of
the ocean, the United Nations Ambassador handed
over the Nature’s Baton to skipper Boris Herrmann, a
passionate advocate for the ocean, leading one of the IN
IMOCA teams taking part in the 2022-2023 edition of
The Ocean Race. SIGHT

“It is a race that we must win. We want to inspire am-
bitious climate actions through our sport”, declared
the finalist of the Vendée Globe holding the famous “The very first phase on the path towards a Universal Declaration
relay in front of his original sailing club, the Monaco of Ocean Rights is to agree to a list of principles on which the
Yacht Club.
Declaration will be based.”
The next stop is Italy, where the first innovation Antonio Di Natale, marine biologist and Scientific Advisor on
workshop will be held within the framework of the
“Genova Process” which is responsible for drawing Ocean Affairs, Minister of the Sea of the Virtual State of Garbage
up a list of principles on which the Universal Declara- Patch (recognised by UNESCO), a symbolic representation of the
tion of Ocean Rights will be based. problem created by plastic in the ocean