Ocean Summit and Start of Volvo Ocean Race 2017
The Volvo Ocean Race will start from Alicante, Spain on 22 October 2017 and finishes in The Hague, Netherlands in June 2018.
The Turn the Tide on Plastic boat and crew, will be promoting UN Environment’s Cleans Seas campaign throughout the 2017/2018 race (see below for the 12 race ports around the world).
An ‘Ocean Summit’ is being held four days before the race in the Alicante race village (Oct 18), where Erik Solheim and the skipper of the #CleanSeas crew, Dee Caffari, will be speaking.
Introducing the Turn the Tide on Plastic team:
http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/teams/Turn-The-Tide-On-Plastic.html
Ocean Summits
Volvo are organising Ocean Summits in six of the 12 ports on the race route to ‘generate discussion, create local relevance, and put out a call to action to business, government and individuals to reduce plastic pollution’. More info on the first Summit: http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/news/9927_Ocean-Summit-Alicante.html
Key race dates:
October 22 Leg 1 Alicante, Spain to Lisbon, Portugal
(October 18) Ocean Summit - Alicante
November 5 Leg 2 Lisbon to Cape Town, South Africa
December 10 Leg 3 Cape Town to Melbourne, Australia
(December 7) Ocean Summit – Cape Town
January 2, 2018 Leg 4 Melbourne to Hong Kong, China
(January 22) Ocean Summit – Hong Kong
February 1 Leg 5 Hong Kong to Guangzhou to Hong Kong
February 7 Leg 6 Hong Kong to Auckland, New Zealand
March 18 Leg 7 Auckland to Itajaí, Brazil
April 22 Leg 8 Itajaí to Newport, United States
May 20 Leg 9 Newport to Cardiff, Wales
(May 18) Ocean Summit - Newport
June 10 Leg 10 Cardiff to Gothenburg, Sweden
(June 5) Ocean Summit – Cardiff (TBC)
June 21 Leg 11 Gothenburg to The Hague, Netherlands
(June 18) Ocean Summit - Gothenburg
Race finish - The Hague
(June 27-28) Ocean Summit
More race info and dates here: www.volvooceanrace.com
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