13 August 2025 | 2:00pm ET/ 7:00pm BST

Register on Zoom.

Join a live webinar to explore how innovative conservation solutions, combined with bold protective measures, can accelerate global efforts to preserve the mesopelagic zone's integrity, ensuring tangible environmental and climate benefits for generations to come. Hear from speakers from the NGO, academic, and policy arenas about the latest science and policy developments shaping mesopelagic conservation. Learn about the mesopelagic zone's critical importance in maintaining vital ecosystem functions and climate stabilization, while understanding emerging threats including deep-sea mining and marine carbon dioxide reduction (mCDR) technologies. Explore groundbreaking opportunities for protecting the ocean twilight zone through innovative conservation approaches, including the growing momentum behind IUCN Motion 035: protection of mesopelagic ecosystem integrity.

Speakers:

Kristin Kleisner - Environmental Defense Fund

Peter Thomson - UNSG Special Envoy for the Ocean

Ily Iglesias - University of California

Kristina Gjerde - IUCN

Lane Morgan - Marine Conservation Institute