Currently, only about one percent of the high seas are protected by any sort of conservation measures. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - The world’s first international treaty to protect the high seas was adopted Monday at the United Nations, a landmark environmental accord designed to protect remote ecosystems vital to humanity.the treaty that will establish a legal framework
The text, since frozen, has been pored over by the UN’s lawyers and translators to make sure it matches in the body’s six official languages. But with so much of the world’s oceans lying outside of individual countries’ exclusive economic zones, and thus the jurisdiction of any single state, providing protection for the so-called “high seas” requires international cooperation.The result is that they’ve been long ignored in many environmental fights, as the spotlight has been on coastal areas and a few emblematic species.
After the adoption, “then the race to ratification will begin” and the 30 per cent target “will remain within reach,” said Chris Thorne of Greenpeace. The treaty also establishes principles for sharing the benefits of “marine genetic resources” collected by scientific research in international waters – a sticking point that almost derailed last-minute negotiations in March.
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