The United Nations declared the start to the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development earlier this year. Its aim is to promote science-based ocean and coastal management, making healthy oceans one of the pillars of progress for all of humanity.
2021/06/09
CCTV: We noted that the Chinese side released the Co-Chairs Statement on the Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers Meeting in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Dialogue Relations. Could you offer more information on that? How do you comment on this meeting?
Wang Wenbin: The Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers Meeting in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Dialogue Relations was held in Chongqing, China on 7 June 2021. State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, foreign ministers of ASEAN countries and the ASEAN Secretary-General had in-depth and extensive discussions and reached important consensus on deepening political mutual trust, enhancing anti-epidemic cooperation and boosting economic recovery, among other areas.
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Volkan Bozkir urges govts, industries, civil society to join forces to develop, implement ocean solutions
June 2, 2021
NEW YORK: The world must harness clear, transformative and actionable solutions to address ocean crisis, UN General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir said, opening a meeting to generate momentum towards the 2022 UN Ocean Conference, when public health safety measures allow.
“Simply speaking, our relationship with our planet’s ocean must change,” he told a high-level thematic debate on the ocean and the Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG14) – life below water. Against the backdrop that human activities have threatened to undo delicate balance of this ecosystem that supports nutritional, economic and social value to billions the world over, he upheld that there was simply no scenario wherein “we live on a planet without an ocean.”