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Countries meet to halt wide-ranging threats against oceans

agence france-presse • February 28, 2023, 08:35:29 IST
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Observers say the Our Ocean gathering is important as it is the only conference to address all ocean-related issues under a single roof

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Panama City, Panama: The world’s oceans and the multiple threats they face, from climate change and pollution to overfishing and mining, will be the focus of a global conference in Panama this week. Some 600 leaders of government, the business sector, green groups and academics will gather in the Central American country on Thursday and Friday to discuss expanding marine protected areas (MPAs), assuring a sustainable ocean-derived “blue economy”, and reducing stressors on an invaluable but at-risk resource. Covering three-quarters of Earth, the oceans are home to 80 per cent of all life on the planet and provide nourishment for more than three billion people as well as a crucial avenue for global trade. “We cannot commit to saving our ocean ecosystems without limiting human activities within them,” states the website for the eighth edition of the international Our Ocean conference. “This vital asset is in danger from global warming, unsustainable practices, illegal fishing, reckless pollution, and the loss of marine habitats,” it added. According to Courtney Farthing, policy director at Global Fishing Watch, the conference “is key to maintain political will on ocean action.” By bringing governments, activists and industry together, “we are able to increase our collective understanding of the issues our ocean is facing and successful initiatives that could be more widely adopted,” she told AFP. Observers say the Our Ocean gathering is important as it is the only conference to address all ocean-related issues under a single roof. It also serves as a public stage for governments, through senior ministers in attendance, to put on a show of political will. Fear for sea floor The conference takes place amid growing concern about multinational companies eyeing minerals on the ocean floor. These include so-called manganese nodules, settled on the seabed, that contain metals critical in battery production. Environmentalists say harvesting them would be devastating for deep-sea ecosystems. “There isn’t really a big extraction today, but there is a significant advance in technology and machinery to eventually extract minerals, mainly rare minerals,” Maximiliano Bello of the non-governmental organization Mission Blue explained. Conference delegates will not adopt agreements or vote on proposals, but rather announce voluntary “commitments” to ocean protection. Host Panama, for example, intends to announce an expansion of the Banco Volcan protected area it created in 2015. But activists, such as Juan Manuel Posada of the MarViva NGO, want to see such projects expanded to “waters beyond national jurisdiction” given that much of the illegal fishing takes place on the lawless high seas. “We would also like to see declarations by countries declaring 30 per cent of their marine areas as protected areas before the target date” of 2030 that was agreed at the COP15 on biodiversity in Canada last year, he added. ‘John Kerry’s baby’ The Our Ocean conferences were launched in 2016 on the initiative of John Kerry, a former US secretary of state who was appointed as White House special envoy for climate. “Our Ocean is the baby of John Kerry,” said Bello. Kerry is due to attend the conference with US oceanographer Sylvia Earle, who has led more than 100 ocean expeditions in a nearly 60-year career and who founded Mission Blue. Kerry and Earle “tried to change the concept that there are many oceans because in reality there is only one ocean that is spread over the whole planet,” said Bello. Read all the Latest News , Trending News ,  Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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