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Maxwell, Svensson, and the ocean
Another common denominator, apart from the ocean itself, between Maxwell and Svensson appears to be lobbying for the ocean’s inclusion in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
What are the SDGs? The Sustainable Development Goals were introduced in 2015 and succeeded the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The UNDP explains:
“Millennium Development Goals: In September 2000, leaders of 189 countries gathered at the United Nations headquarters and signed the historic Millennium Declaration, in which they committed to achieving a set of eight measurable goals that range from halving extreme poverty and hunger to promoting gender equality and reducing child mortality, by the target date of 2015.”
The Rio+20 conference (the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development) in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012, galvanized a process to develop a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will carry on the momentum generated by the MDGs and fit into a global development framework beyond 2015.
In July 2014, the UN General Assembly Open Working Group (OWG) proposed a document containing 17 goals to be put forward for the General Assembly’s approval in September 2015. This document set the ground for the new SDGs and the global development agenda spanning from 2015-2030.”
Before the SDGs were officially voted in during September 2015, the ocean was not on the list of MDGs.
Maxwell and Svensson shared a goal to get the ocean on the SDG list. They actively worked on this goal. In this capacity, the two women had mutual acquaintances.
We’ve compiled a timeline of Maxwell and Svensson’s ocean and SDGs-related activities. We note, again, that these activities follow Epstein’s first round of run-ins with the law being made public, as well as Epstein and Maxwell’s close relationship being well-documented through social appearances and photographs.
June 20, 2013: Maxwell, late Ambassador Stuart Beck, and former TerraMar board member Amir Dossal hold an informal meeting at the UN to talk about adding the ocean to the new list of SDGs.
June 23, 2013: Maxwell accompanies Beck to make an official appeal to the UN General Assembly to include the ocean in the 2015 UN SDGs.
October 2013: Accounts “@oceansalliance” and “@HealthyOcean30” join Twitter. They appear to be aimed at getting the ocean on the UN’s 2015 SDG plan. Both currently link to (now non-existent) website oceansalliance.org in their bios.
December 3, 2013: Svensson tweets: “Ghislaine Maxwell: Ocean belongs to everyone ”Sign the ‘I Love the Oceans’ pledge @TerraMarProject”. The tweet is retweeted by Dossal.
January 7, 2014: Svensson tweets: “Take a look: The TerraMar Project a digital hub for the ocean founded by Ghislaine Maxwell @TerraMarProject”.
February 4, 2014: Maxwell is a speaker at the UN round table discussion: “Healthy Oceans and Seas: a way forward” as “Founder, The TerraMar Project”. She is warmly introduced by Dossal with the words: “I am now going to invite the person who has been the inspiration behind the Sustainable Oceans Alliance who really has something called TerraMar Project. She controls the oceans around the world. If you look up the website, you have the option to buy a part of the ocean through her. And really the Sustainable Oceans Alliance came together at the insistence of one person who is in the room … his name is Steven Haft, where is Steven? … Steven has been the passionate person behind the Oceans Alliance saying we need to do something and he got us together, Ambassador [Stuart] Beck and I and with Ghislaine Maxwell and we set up the Oceans Alliance. And we are very greatful to Steven for his support. And therefore I invite my dear friend Ghislaine Maxwell to tell us how we can own the oceans.” Find the video of the introduction and Maxwell speaking at the UN on this occassion here.
[The email appearing to name Svensson is sent from Epstein to Maxwell on January 25, 2015.]
March 5, 2015: Dossal and the aforementioned Twitter account “@HealthyOceans20” tweet a photo of an event held at the UN by the aforementioned Oceans Alliance, which was inspired by and set up with Maxwell and Haft.
March 24, 2015: Per Thöresson, former Sweden UN Ambassador, tweets a photo of Dossal and Svensson speaking on the same panel. The tweet reads: “Just addressed the meeting on the @OceanSDG.” The tweet is retweeted by Dossal, Svensson, and “@oceansalliance”. On June 3, the tweet is retweeted by “@HealthyOceans30” with a since-deleted account “@OceanSDG” also tagged.
April 6-10, 2015: Svensson is a panelist at the UN’s “Meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea” as “Ambassador for Oceans, Seas and Fresh Water, Sweden”.
July 27, 2015: An ocean-activism-related article by Ghislaine Maxwell, titled “When the Oceans Failed“, is published on Medium. Lisa Emelia Svensson gives it a “clap” reaction.
August 24, 2015: Svensson tweets a photo of the then-Swedish Prime Minister speaking at the World Water Week in Stockholm. She tags “@OceanSDG”.
September 25-27, 2015: The UN General Assembly adopts a 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development with 17 new SDGs. Goal #14 is: “Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”.
November 7-18, 2016: Svensson is listed as a participant at the UN “Framework Convention on Climate Change” as “Coordinator, UN Environment, Marine and Coast European Commission – DG Trade”.
