US EditionGiant Greenpeace mural unveiled in town to celebrate 'landmark moment'
- On January 17, a giant mural appeared on the Bathing Hut Cafe in St Leonards-On-Sea, East Sussex, to mark the UN High Seas Treaty coming into force as part of a global Greenpeace UK campaign.
- The treaty gives governments new powers to create protected high-seas areas and regulate activities like EIAs, aiming for 30 per cent protection by 2030 with annual BBNJ COP summits planned within the year.
- Bristol-Based artist Richt painted a beachside wall painting at Bathing Hut Cafe showing a message-in-a-bottle, turtle, and angelfish, which Greenpeace says captures hope and urgency.
- Greenpeace said the UK has not yet enacted the treaty into law and launched a digital postcard campaign to send the mural directly to Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.
- Currently only 0.9 per cent of the high seas are fully protected, while eighty-one ratifying nations including France, Spain and Brazil back the treaty.
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A significant United Nations treaty to protect ocean wildlife and habitats in international waters — aka the high seas, or “the maritime Wild West,” outside any nation’s official jurisdiction — has been ratified, creating a framework for cooperative creation of environmentally protected zones. The 60 approvals required were reached in September, and 23 more have signed on since, though the U.S. is not one of them.
20 years has been negotiated, this Saturday the international protection agreement comes into force. Even one of the big global players has already ratified it, in contrast to Germany.
On Saturday, January 17, the historic Agreement on the High Seas, formally known as the Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, entered into force. Although the official name sounds dry and professional, it simultaneously brings us closer to the basic role of the agreement itself - the protection of species and ecosystems in international waters, that is, on the open sea.
In a world where multilateral agreements are increasingly difficult to negotiate and implement, the High-Mar Treaty proves that international cooperation can continue to prevail when it is the cause of global goods.
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