United Nations (AP) – Nations of the world meet in France next month to fight against what the United Nations calls for a global emergency. The oceans of the world as they confront increasing temperatures, plastic pollution The suffocation of marine life and the implacable overexploitation of fish and other resources.
The third conference of the United Nations ocean aims to unite governments, scientists, businesses and civil society to take measures and collect funds to tackle these and other crises in front of the oceans And the people who count on them for their survival.
The secretary general of the Li Junhua conference told journalists on Tuesday that he hoped that it will not be another routine meeting, but “the pivotal opportunity” to accelerate action and mobilize people in all sectors and around the world.
The conference, co -produced by France and Costa Rica, takes place in French Riviera from June 9 to June 13. It is expected to bring together more than 60 world leaders, dozens of ministers, around 4,000 government representatives and 6,000 civil society members, Li to the Associated Press.
Costa Rica’s UN Ambassador Maritza Chan Valverde said that the acceleration of measures to keep and use the ocean “means permanently” reduce the decision -making time from months to months “and engage the 193 UN member countries, more than 1,000 cities and more than 500 simultaneous companies.
“What is different this time?” She said. “Zero rhetoric. Maximum results. “
Valverde said that it expects participants to make commitments totaling $ 100 billion in new funds to deal with the crisis against the oceans.
The French Ambassador of the United Nations, Jérôme Bonnafont, said that his country’s priorities for the conference include obtaining 60 ratifications for the Treated to protect biodiversity On the high seas adopted in March 2023, it came into force. The treaty of the Treaty is to ensure sustainable fishing, to mobilize support to protect and keep at least 30% of the waters of the oceans, to combat plastic pollution, “accelerate decarbonization” of maritime transport and mobilize funding.
Participants in the conference should adopt a declaration which says that the action does not progress quickly enough to approach the impact of “the triple planetary crisis in climate change, the loss of biodiversity and pollution”.
“We highlight the central role of a healthy ocean and resilient in the maintenance of life on earth, guaranteeing global food security and supporting billions of lives,” said the final project.
He supports new scientific research to meet the challenges of climate change and improve the scientific understanding of the oceans. He does not deal with the issue of high seas exploitation because a consensus could not be reached, said Li.
The Trump administration said last week that it would plan to sell leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific Island of the American Samoa, a first potential step in a wider push in the industry to allow READ OF SEAto which environmentalists oppose because they say that it could irreparably harm the marine ecosystems.
The declaration and voluntary commitments of governments and all sectors should become the right ocean action plan.
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This story corrected the dates of the conference from June 9 to 13, not from June 7 to 13.
