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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.”
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.