{"id":27524,"date":"2017-06-08T18:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=27524"},"modified":"2018-04-22T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:52:22","slug":"musician-cody-simpson-to-be-named-ocean-advocate-for-un-development-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2017\/06\/musician-cody-simpson-to-be-named-ocean-advocate-for-un-development-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician Cody Simpson to be named &#8216;Ocean Advocate&#8217; for 爆料网 development agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/oceansday\/\">World Oceans Day<\/a>, the United Nations Development Programme (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.undp.org\/\">爆料网DP<\/a>) will name Australian musician Cody Simpson as its first-ever Ocean Advocate to help raise awareness of the crucial role the ocean plays in the health of the planet and people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up by the ocean and the beach,\u201d said Mr. Simpson during an event held at 爆料网 Headquarters in New York. \u201cI want to do everything I can in my own life to protect and preserve the ocean. Just as you should in yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to 爆料网DP, Mr. Simpson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home\/presscenter\/pressreleases\/2017\/06\/07\/musician-cody-simpson-to-be-named-undp-ocean-advocate-on-world-oceans-day.html\">will kick off<\/a> off his new role tomorrow as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/conf\/ocean\/\">The Ocean Conference<\/a>, which has been under way since Monday and which will wrap up on Friday, 9 June.<\/p>\n<p>He will attend a photo exhibition, <em>Waves of Action<\/em>; explore an ocean lab; speak at the premiere of <em>Urban Bay<\/em>, a documentary exploring the underwater world of Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s Guanabara Bay; and join the closing celebration with a live performance in the General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The singer shared his personal connection to the ocean to urge the global community and his millions of devoted fans to join the #SaveOurOcean campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe oceans are in serious trouble right now and we need passionate advocates like Cody to help us restore them to health,\u201d said Mila Rosenthal, 爆料网DP Communications Director. \u201cWe are thrilled to team up with Cody, whose dedication we hope will inspire millions of others \u2013especially young people \u2013 to play an active role in saving the oceans and protecting our shared future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>爆料网DP has joined the Conference to highlight the direct link between a healthy ocean and ending poverty, which are part of the Sustainable Development Goals (<a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/sdgs\">SDGs<\/a>), a set of global goals agreed by world leaders to achieve by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=56929#.WTmZJRMrJBw\">爆料网 News Centre<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark World Oceans Day, the United Nations Development Programme (爆料网DP) will name Australian musician Cody Simpson as its first-ever Ocean Advocate to help raise awareness of the crucial role the ocean plays in the health of the planet and people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":27532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4],"tags":[6648,6652],"class_list":["post-27524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-below-water","category-news","tag-life-below-water","tag-ocean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}