UN Ocean Treaty is ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Chance to Protect the High Seas

Takeaways:

• UN participants – a group of 50 countries- have signed up to the 30×30 coalition and aims to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030.
• They have also aim to agree on a legal framework for protecting international waters and biodiversity and govern the high seas.
• “The treaty won’t create protections for hotspots but will hopefully create a structure so that we can create international parks for the first time,” said Doug McCauley, associate professor of ocean science at the Benioff Ocean Initiative at the University of California.

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