Antonio Guterres issues stark warning as latest talks in Madrid get underway with news Mark Carney is to take up key climate role The world’s response to climate change has been “utterly inadequate”, forcing the planet to the “point of no return”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned yesterday at the start of the latest round […]
Last week’s global climate strikes and a passionate speech from Greta Thunberg at the UN climate summit in New York could have spurred nations into action. Instead, despite warnings from the scientific community that the impact of global heating is set to intensify, the climate summit failed to secure anything more than incremental promises. Of […]
The high seas and their resources are the last major frontier in our attempts to manage the ocean. The process of formulating a High Seas Treaty continues at the UN in New York and this is prompting commentary and reports. These four articles gives you some sense of this. 1.Guardian: Gillian Anderson Overview Today, governments […]
We can’t say we weren’t warned – grim reading Humans are transforming Earth’s natural landscapes so dramatically that as many as one million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction, posing a dire threat to ecosystems that people all over the world depend on for their survival, a sweeping new United Nations […]
UK government makes ambitious call to treble internationally-agreed targets for ocean protection. UK calls for third of world’s oceans to be safeguarded by 2030 Current global targets for protected areas to treble under ambitious plans Marine protection top of agenda at UN General Assembly in New York Defra ‘Environment Secretary Michael Gove has today called […]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45397674 UN treaty High Seas BBC IPS News Agency – UNITED NATIONS, Sep 7 2018 (IPS) – After several years of preliminary discussions, the United Nations has begun its first round of inter-governmental negotiations to draft the world’s first legally binding treaty to protect and regulate the “high seas”—which, by definition, extend beyond 200 nautical miles […]
Guardian Robin McKie ‘Wildlife in most of the lawless high seas faces an existential threat from fishing, shipping and the military. Next month, a landmark UN conference could finally bring hope. “Outside national waters, in the high seas, it is essentially a no man’s land when it comes to protecting sensitive environments and their inhabitants,” […]
Guardian The world’s oceans are set for a long overdue boost in the coming days as the United Nations votes for the first time on a planned treaty to protect and regulate the high seas. The waters outside national maritime boundaries – which cover half of the planet’s surface – are currently a free-for-all that has led […]