https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/world-leaders-gather-france-tackle-global-emergency-oceans
A star fish near a beach [Pic: Jakob Owens]THE world’s nations will gather in France next month to tackle what the United Nations says is a global emergency facing global oceans.
Conference secretary-general Li Junhua told reporters on Tuesday that he hopes the third UN Ocean Conference would not be another routine meeting but “the pivotal opportunity” to accelerate action and mobilise people in all sectors and across the world.
The conference aims to unite governments, scientists, businesses and civil society to take action and raise money to address these and other crises facing the oceans and the people who rely on them for their survival.
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French UN ambassador Jerome Bonnafont said his country’s priorities for the conference included obtaining 60 ratifications of the treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas, which was adopted in March 2023, so that it comes into force.
The treaty’s mission is to ensure sustainable fishing, mobilise support to protect and conserve at least 30 per cent of the oceans’ waters, fight plastic pollution, “accelerate decarbonisation” of maritime transport and mobilise financing.
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