Keep Sustainable Development Goal 14 as our lodestar, and the UN Decade of Ocean Science as our chart, and we will be staying the course towards a healthy and equitable ocean – By Ambassador Peter Thomson, UNSG’s Special Envoy for the Ocean In early June 2025, on the shores of the Mediterranean in the beautiful […]
Read MoreRebecca Hubbard, Director, High Seas Alliance After almost 36 hours of non-stop negotiations, Rena Lee, President of the UN Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), shed tears of relief and joy on 4 March as she sealed the deal on the agreement for a new High Seas Treaty to protect ocean life. It was a profound moment. It […]
Read Moreby Manon Dene, RISE UP coordinator for France In anticipation of the One Ocean Summit organized by the French government, the RISE UP network initiated an open letter urging France to demonstrate leadership to increase the level of ambition needed to restore ocean health through the High Seas Treaty. The open letter to president Emmanuel […]
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