Press Release – UN News The world must harness clear, transformative and actionable solutions to address the ocean crisis, the President of the UN General Assembly said on Tuesday, opening a meeting to generate momentum towards the 2022 UN Ocean Conference , when public …
The world must harness “clear, transformative and actionable solutions” to address the ocean crisis, the President of the UN General Assembly said on Tuesday, opening a meeting to generate momentum towards the 2022
, when public health safety measures allow.
“Simply speaking, our relationship with our planet’s ocean must change”, Assembly President Volkan Bozkir told ahigh-level thematic debate on the ocean and Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG14): Life Below Water.
Appetite for change
People do not want to live in “a world of one crisis after the next”, Mr. Bozkir said, preferring instead the “security, sustainability and the peace of mind” that comes with a healthy planet.
Policy makers too are increasingly aware of how a healthy ocean is integral to a strong economy.
“We have seen this in countries and cities that have prioritized coastal and marine areas over tourism…in protected wetlands…in efforts to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, and regulate shipping and resource extraction”, he said.
‘Blue recovery’
New governance, policy and market approaches that incentivize both profit ability and sustainability – for people and planet – provide an opportunity for a “blue recovery” to build resilience, particularly in small island developing States, upheld the Assembly President.
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NEWPORT, R.I., May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In a unique collaboration of art and sport, 11th Hour Racing today announced its sponsorship of The Ocean Agency to provide a database of photos and engage the public with information on mangroves, coral reefs, and seagrass conservation and sustainability issues.
11th Hour Racing will sponsor one of The Ocean Agency s three Ocean Decade Creative Communication Toolkits focused on mangroves and the production of a video about the impacts of climate change on the ocean from a sailor s perspective.
The ocean we want is one that plays a key role in solving humanity’s three main global issues: protecting biodiversity, creating a sustainable economy and regulating climate. The ocean today moderates climate change, absorbs a significant fraction of our CO
2 emissions, hosts valuable biodiversity and provides food to millions.
But all of these services are threatened by pollution and human activities. If we continue business as usual, the natural capital represented by the ocean is set to decline.
In June 2017, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) adopted a resolution to propose an “ocean decade”. In December of the same year, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that 2021-2030 would be the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.