US EditionNice Ocean Summit Advances High Seas Treaty and Strengthens Marine Protections
- The UN Ocean Conference began on June 9, 2025, in Nice, France, advancing the 2023 High Seas Treaty to protect international waters.
- The treaty, requiring 60 ratifications to take effect, addresses growing threats such as seabed mining, overfishing, and climate change impacting two-thirds of the oceans.
- Leaders such as French President Emmanuel Macron and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres emphasized the urgent need to halt deep-sea mining activities, describing current efforts to exploit the ocean floor as reckless and warning of permanent environmental harm.
- Macron reported 50 countries have ratified the treaty with 15 more committed, describing the pact as "a done deal," while advocates urge worldwide participation for effective implementation.
- The treaty’s enforcement could enable legal protection for marine biodiversity and help meet the 30x30 conservation goal, but full impact depends on further ratifications and sustained global cooperation.
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Having worked twelve years with Commander Cousteau, François Sarano believes that in the face of the failure of current law, the protection of marine ecosystems now depends on the recognition of the right of existence of all living species that inhabit the ocean.
Organisation Global Coral Recipes Fund highlights that support is a significant step in the effort to capitalise, to respond to what it considers to be one of the most urgent ecological crises.
Anja Murray: Radical changes required to let the oceans recover
We don’t tend to consider just how much we impact the health of ocean ecosystems with our activities. For most of history, humans have rightly considered the oceans as being far too large for us to ever inflict much of an influence upon
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Scientists urge strict rules on deep-sea mining at the UN Oceans conference
Deep-sea mining is a key issue at the UN Oceans Conference in Nice. France 24 journalist Antonia Kerrigan is joined by marine biologist Diva Amon, who highlights the fragility and uniqueness of deep-sea ecosystems and the urgent need for action. French President Emmanuel Macron has also stressed the importance of addressing these concerns.
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