US EditionUN Ocean Conference Sets Sail Off France on World Oceans Day
- Taoiseach Micheál Martin is heading to Nice today to participate in the third United Nations summit focused on ocean issues, which will run until Friday.
- The conference follows earlier UN ocean summits in 2017 and 2022 and arises amid warnings about oceans threatened by climate change, pollution, overfishing, and coral bleaching.
- Mr. Martin will join over 60 world leaders for events including the inauguration of the 'Green Zone' and the launch of the European Ocean Pact, aiming to unify EU ocean policies under a 2027 law.
- Earth’s oceans generate half of the planet’s oxygen, support the livelihoods of over three billion people, and are polluted annually by millions of metric tonnes of plastic waste—amounting to roughly one bin truck entering the ocean every minute.
- The conference seeks commitments on ocean conservation, including treaty ratifications and protection expansions, but will not yield legally binding agreements at its close.
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What’s At Stake As Leaders Gather To Negotiate The Future of Our Oceans
France’s bucolic Côte D’Azur, with its pine-forested hills and picturesque harbors, is rarely the site of fractious politics. But this week, hundreds of scientists and government officials from across the world have converged on the Mediterranean city of Nice for the United Nations’ weeklong Oceans Conference, grappling over how to stave off calamitous ocean warming, rising sea levels, and an accelerating destruction of marine life—all without t…
UN ocean conference kicks off in France
The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) opened on Monday in Nice, a coastal city in southern France, under the theme of "Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean."Co-hosted by France and Costa Rica, this year's UNOC3 brings together delegations from UN member state governments, stakeholders from international organizations, the research community, civil society and the private sector to di…
This week Nice becomes the world’s epicenter in the protection of the oceans. It is that from today and until the 13th the French city hosts the Third United Nations Conference on the Oceans (UNOC3) with a clear objective that it is no other than to face a growing ocean emergency that, if not changed, goes to a point of no return. The UNOC3 appointment will serve to bring together world leaders, scientists, activists and entrepreneurs to work to…
The Treaty, signed in 2023 for the protection of areas beyond 370 kilometres from the coast, will enter into force 120 days after the 60th ratification. No precise timetable has been indicated by the French President.
Don’t let deep sea become ‘wild west’, Guterres tells world leaders
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world could not let the deepest oceans "become the wild west", at the start in France of a global summit on the seas. World leaders are attending the UN Ocean Conference in Nice as nations tussle over contentious rules on mining the seabed for critical
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