Monaco is once again proving that, when it comes to saving the planet, it prefers to aim slightly higher than everyone else. The Principality is hosting the third edition of the Ocean Space Forum, an international gathering dedicated to the rather grand, but increasingly vital, question of how space technology can help protect the world’s oceans.
Held at the Auditorium Rainier III, the forum brings together space agencies, scientists, public decision-makers, entrepreneurs and private sector innovators to explore how satellite technology can be used to monitor, understand and safeguard marine environments.
The idea is simple, even if the technology is not: what happens above the Earth may now be one of the most powerful tools for protecting what lies beneath its waves.
From satellite observation and data connectivity to maritime security, climate resilience and sustainable ocean governance, the forum places Monaco at the meeting point of two vast frontiers: ocean and space.
For Monaco, the event feels entirely on brand. A country that has long placed ocean protection at the heart of its international identity is now looking skyward for solutions. It is environmental diplomacy with a telescope in one hand and a tide chart in the other.
In a world where rising sea levels, illegal fishing, maritime security and climate disruption are no longer distant concerns, the Ocean Space Forum gives Monaco a serious platform to ask what technology can do next.
And, rather fittingly, it does so from a country small enough to walk across, but ambitious enough to speak to the planet.
