In June 5–9, 2017, during the United Nations (UN) Ocean Conference, 143 governments, signatory parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) declared their commitment and strategies to reach several objectives of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, which stands to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”.
The Pacific Community and the United Nations' oceans body have made a formal agreement aimed at saving the world's oceans.The Community's deputy director-general, Cameron Diver, and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's executive secretary, Vladimir Ryabinin, today signed a Letter of I
There is no denying, the authors write, that the destructive extinction trends, so visible across the planet, “have been less severe or avoided in areas held or managed by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities….
The QIAO Plan aims to identify demand-driven projects that enhances the capacity of developing countries to address climate change and to promote nature conservation. Click on the link below for further details.
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The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted two resolutions that aim to advance implementation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.Click on the link below to read the full article.
The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and Marshall Islands have used the UN Oceans Conference underway in New York to amplify their long –standing concerns about nuclear contamination and pollution from World War 2 wrecks.
The Pacific islands will play a crucial role as the Call for Action Declaration comes into being at the UN Ocean Conference in June this year.