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UN Summit to End with Boost for Ocean Conservation
- The UN Ocean Conference has concluded with new commitments aimed at conserving marine biodiversity and addressing unprecedented threats to the world's oceans.
- Conservation leaders emphasized that securing funding for climate goals is essential for African governments, which currently spend only 0.43 percent of GDP on research and development, lagging behind in meeting biodiversity targets.
- A new study calls on African policymakers to enhance collaboration with biodiversity experts, as current spending on biodiversity is well below the global average.
- Astrid Schomacher of the CBD declared that the upcoming COP17 summit in 2026 will be pivotal for assessing progress on the Global Biodiversity Framework.
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This conference, the third of the United Nations on oceans, was the most important in terms of participation.
An important agreement to protect the deep sea is approaching. As the UN Ocean Conference in Nice concludes, 50 of the 60 countries required for it to enter into force have ratified the agreement. “It is believed that it will be achieved during the year,” says Karina Barquet at the SEI research institute.
Why the oceans are so essential to our planet? What measures to better preserve them? At the time when the ocean summit ends, this Friday, June 13, Emilie Torgemen, Assistant Chief of the Futures department, environmental specialist, answers your questions live.
António Guterres, UN Secretary General, has used the same metaphor to put the focus on an emerging environmental problem on a couple of occasions during his public interventions at the conference on the protection of the ocean that closes this Friday in Nice, south-east of France. “The seabed cannot become a wild West,” he said on Monday during the opening of the meeting. He repeated it the following day at a press conference to describe what is…
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UN summit to end with boost for ocean conservation
A summit on the state of global oceans concludes Friday with nations having tested the waters on deep-sea mining and making strides towards protecting unpoliced reaches of the high seas.
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