US EditionUN Ocean Summit Opens in Nice with Calls to Boost Marine Protections
- On Monday in Nice, France, UN Secretary-General António Guterres inaugurated the third global summit focused on ocean conservation, emphasizing the urgent need to protect marine environments.
- The summit follows increasing ocean threats including overfishing, pollution, warming waters, and plastic waste undermining marine ecosystems globally.
- Over 50 national leaders took part in the event, including Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Ursula von der Leyen, head of the European Commission, to highlight the urgent need for ocean conservation.
- France, as a co-host of the summit, announced restrictions on trawling activities, while the UK indicated plans to prohibit bottom trawling in portions of its marine protected areas to combat damaging fishing methods.
- The conference aims to advance marine protection treaties, increase funding, and promote a moratorium on deep-sea mining to safeguard ocean health amid ongoing global urgency.
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At the UN conference in Nice, countries seek to expand marine protected areas, ratify global agreements and curb overfishing
NICE — Some fifty heads of state are meeting this week in Nice to restore the oceans, which have been suffering for some time. The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC) will conclude on Friday, theoretically with a political declaration aimed at moving the world in the right direction on ocean conservation and sustainable fisheries. However, in the face of urgent threats to the world's seas, scientists and environmentalists are warning co…
In southern France Nice, representatives of some 130 countries, including many Heads of State and Government, are currently discussing possible solutions for the protection of the world's oceans.
UN chief warns of ocean crisis, urges leaders to protect marine areas
Guterres, speaking at the opening of the third U.N. Ocean Conference in Nice, cautioned that illegal fishing, plastic pollution and rising sea temperatures threatened delicate ecosystems and the people who depend on them
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