Name: One Ocean 2026: Youth for the Ocean
Start: 2026-06-21T15:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-06-21T16:30:00+00:00
Location: One Ocean 2026: Youth for the Ocean

Talks & Tours

One Ocean 2026: Youth for the Ocean & Final Reflections with Polly Billington

Entry

Free entry, Turner Contemporary

Date

Sun 21 Jun 2026

Time

3.30–4.30pm

Location

Foyle Rooms, Turner Contemporary

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A dynamic panel showcasing young leaders and campaigners working at the forefront of climate justice. This session centres youth perspectives, highlighting action, advocacy, and the power of collective organising for ocean futures.

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About the Panel

Louisa Casson—Global campaigns, Greenpeace

Louisa Casson leads Greenpeace’s global campaign to stop deep sea mining from starting and create ocean sanctuaries across the high seas. She spearheaded Greenpeace’s political strategy to win a landmark UN ocean treaty and governments’ commitment to protect at least 30% of the ocean by 2030, and has led Greenpeace campaigns that secured industry agreements to protect Antarctic waters from industrial fishing. She has led expeditions on Greenpeace ships across the Atlantic, in the Pacific and to the Antarctic Ocean, working with scientists and activists to bear witness to environmental pressures. With a background in climate activism, Louisa led advocacy coalitions at E3G to influence European climate ambition and diplomacy ahead of the Paris Agreement, and subsequently worked as a policy advisor on climate & energy in Parliament. She started out as an activist at the UK Youth Climate Coalition and has served as a board member for UK Youth for Nature.

Alexandra Kristofovicova—Director of Curriculum, Our Youth 4 the Climate

Alexandra is a UCL Biodiversity and Conservation graduate dedicated to increasing climate literacy among youth. Through working with young people and educators (which are often one and the same) in her role as Director of Curriculum at Our Youth 4 The Climate, she has helped bring youth-led climate change education to hundreds of students in over 15 countries. Alongside her commitment to youth-led education, she is completing a course in marine biology, gets involved in fieldwork whenever possible and is currently exploring how creativity can re-connect us to nature and the ocean.

Olivia Mandle—Ocean Conservationist and Animal Rights Advocate

Olivia Mandle Navarro is a youth environmental advocate, animal and ocean rights advocate, and one of Europe’s leading young voices for marine conservation. At age 12 she created the Jelly Cleaner, a homemade tool to collect microplastics that she now develops as a citizen-science project. She is the author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Sí es cosa tuya (Penguin Random House) and host of the climate series Kanviem? on 3Cat.
In 2020 she launched her first Change.org campaign and now leads #NoEsPaísParaDelfines, calling for the progressive closure of all dolphinariums in Spain—Europe’s largest prison for cetaceans—with more than 160,000 signatures delivered to the Spanish Congress. She has given over 100 speeches, including two TEDx talks, and successfully urged the Real Academia Española to change the official definition of “consciousness” to include all living beings.
A representative at the Our Ocean Conference (Athens, 2024) and the United Nations Ocean Conference (Nice, 2025), she has received numerous awards, including the Rising Blue Voice Award 2025, the Sol de Oro from Suncine, the Jane Goodall Global Award, or the WOW Women of the World award. Olivia is an Ambassador for the EU Climate Pact, an “Antarctica Avenger” for Blue Marine Foundation, BCorporation, the Paul Watson International Foundation.
She is currently studying Marine Biology & Oceanography in the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom, driven by a simple belief: hope only matters when it becomes action.

Fatima Ibrahim (Moderator)—Co-Executive Campaigner, Green New Deal UK

Fatima Ibrahim is the co-founder and director of Green New Deal Rising, a youth movement fighting for a transformation of the economy to stop the climate crisis and build a world in which we can thrive. She has more than a decade of experience organising, training, and mobilising international movements for change. She has worked for global NGO Avaaz, EU citizens movement WeMove.eu, and supported the development of youth climate movements from South Africa to Brazil during her years as part of the UKYCC. She is a 2020 Global Citizen Prize winner and her writing has been published in Vice, Time Magazine, The Guardian and other outlets.

Final Reflections with Polly Billington MP

Following on from the panel discussion, East Thanet MP Polly Billington will mark the closing of One Ocean 2026 with a speech bringing together key themes from the programme and looking ahead to future action and collaboration.

About the Speaker

Polly Billington was elected by voters to represent East Thanet at the last general election. Since being elected as an MP she has become the Co-Chair of the Coastal Communities group of MPs, supported campaigns to save local youth and children’s services in East Thanet, and secured a place on parliament’s Energy Security and Net Zero Committee.
Prior to standing for parliament, she worked for the Department of Energy and Climate Change under the last Labour government, and in 2016 she founded UK100, a network for locally-elected leaders pledging a fair and fast transition to homegrown renewable energy.

One Ocean 2026 is a weekend of free talks, workshops and screenings on art, adaptation and the future of our oceans. Supported by the UK National Commission for UNESCO, Turner Contemporary presents a rich public programme of talks, documentary and artist film screenings, workshops and community activities. Through art, science and storytelling, One Ocean translates complex environmental issues into accessible, action-driven experiences.

View the full programme