United Nations, United States: The world's first international treaty to protect the high seas is due to be adopted Monday at the United Nations, a historic environmental accord designed to protect remote ecosystems vital to mankind. READ HERE:
'It will be a huge accomplishment, one that we've already celebrated with the finalization of the text in March. But the adoption formalizes that, and really sets the pathway for the next steps,' Liz Karan of the NGO Pew Charitable Trusts told Agence France-Presse.The landmark treaty will establish a legal framework to extend swathes of environmental protections to international waters, which make up more than 60 percent of the world's oceans.
The treaty is seen as crucial to countries protecting 30 percent of the world's oceans and lands by 2030, as agreed by world governments in a separate historic accord reached in Montreal in December.If the treaty is adopted 'then the race to ratification will begin' and the 30 percent target 'will remain within reach,' said Chris Thorne of Greenpeace.
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