{"id":19682,"date":"2019-06-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=19682"},"modified":"2020-09-18T00:35:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T00:35:51","slug":"salesforces-marc-benioff-and-conservationist-marco-lambertini-on-saving-our-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/salesforces-marc-benioff-and-conservationist-marco-lambertini-on-saving-our-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce\u2019s Marc Benioff and Conservationist Marco Lambertini on Saving Our Oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s up to governments, individuals and, most importantly, businesses, to lead the charge in saving our oceans before it&#8217;s too late,\u201d write Salesforce Chairman and co-CEO and <a href=\"https:\/\/boi.ucsb.edu\/\">Benioff Ocean Initiative<\/a> founder Marc Benioff and Marco Lambertini, Director General of WWF International, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/14\/perspectives\/marc-benioff-marco-lambertini-oceans-businesses\/index.html\">op-ed <\/a> published on CNN Business today. The op-ed, titled \u201cWe&#8217;re failing the world&#8217;s oceans &#8211; Businesses can help save them\u201d shines a light on the critical challenges facing our seas and calls for business leaders to step up and help with solutions for ocean health.<\/p><p>\u201cTo many people, our oceans seem far too big and too powerful to fail,\u201d Benioff and Lambertini write. \u201cBut the same was once said of history&#8217;s most famous \u2018unsinkable\u2019 ship \u2014 the Titanic. Research from leading scientists and the UN assessments highlight the pace at which ocean ecosystems are failing, marine wildlife populations are shrinking and species are vanishing. The World Wide Fund for Nature&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wwf.panda.org\/knowledge_hub\/all_publications\/living_planet_report_2018\/\">Living Planet Report <\/a>revealed that in a little over 40 years \u2014 less than an average single lifetime \u2014 global wildlife populations have declined by 60 percent.\u201d<\/p><p>Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/14\/perspectives\/marc-benioff-marco-lambertini-oceans-businesses\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s up to governments, individuals and, most importantly, businesses, to lead the charge in saving our oceans before it&#8217;s too late,\u201d write Salesforce Chairman and co-CEO and Benioff Ocean Initiative founder Marc Benioff and Marco Lambertini, Director General of WWF International, in an op-ed published on CNN Business today. 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