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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that the executive director has come into effect after receiving historic support for the high seas treaty at the United Nations Maritime Conference.
Conventions that provide a legal framework for establishment Marine Reserve And it restricted activities on the high seas and gained momentum on Monday. However, its implementation is not yet guaranteed.
Guterres urged all remaining countries to quickly ratify the agreement to make it legally binding.
In his speech, he emphasized his great opposition to the treaty’s goals.
“It can be impossible to recover, and let us be clear.
“We face a fierce battle with a clear enemy. Its name is greed. Its greed, embracing doubt, denying science, distorting the truth, rewarding corruption, destroying life for commercial purposes.”
“We need to fight hard.”
If it enters into force, the treaty will become the first legally binding international agreement to protect the biodiversity of the high seas, covering almost two-thirds of the world’s oceans.
It is considered essential to regulate overfishing, terminal plastic pollution, submarine mining and reach 30′ protection targets, with the aim of protecting 30% of the planet’s oceans by 2030.
Emphasizing the urgency, Guterres also reminded his representatives that climate change goals cannot be ignored.
“For the first time last year, global temperatures were 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial era. Scientists have made it clear that this does not mean that the long-term 1.5 degrees of global temperature rise limit is out of reach,” he said. “That means we need to fight harder, and the ocean depends on it, and so does us.”
Eighteen countries ratified the treaty on Mondaythe total has been set to 49. Only 11 of the 60 of the 60 needed for the Maritime Agreement to come into effect.
The surge in support adds momentum to what could be a historic change in how the world governs the open ocean.
