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UN Ocean Conference Sets Sail Off France on World Oceans Day
- On June 11, 2025, Taoiseach Micheál Martin traveled to Nice to participate in the third United Nations conference focused on ocean issues, jointly organized by France and Costa Rica and running through Friday.
- The conference follows previous UN ocean summits in New York and Lisbon and responds to decades of ocean degradation from pollution, overfishing, climate change, and seabed mining threats.
- More than 60 world leaders, thousands of scientists, activists, and business leaders attend, with events including the 'Green Zone' inauguration and launch of the European Ocean Pact.
- Global fish stocks have declined from 90% safe levels in the 1970s to just over 62% in 2021, while the EU pledged over $45 million to ocean programs, underscoring urgent conservation needs.
- Although the summit will not produce legally binding agreements, it aims to advance ocean protection through pledges like the Nice Ocean Action Plan and build political momentum for funding and marine conservation.
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CHRONIQUE. The Ocean Summit in Nice is an opportunity to recall that the French marine empire represents 11 million square kilometres, making it the second sea surface of the world after the United States.
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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…
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