All 198 members of the United Nations unanimously adopted July 1, 2022 the Lisbon Declaration on ocean conservation
- July 5, 2022
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All 198 members of the United Nations unanimously adopted July 1, 2022 the Lisbon Declaration on ocean conservation
Subject: Environment
Section: Environmental conventions
Context:
Lisbon Declaration on ocean conservation
- Recognised that developing countries, particularly small island developing states and least developed countries, need assistance with capacity building
- Participants at the conference also agreed to work on preventing, reducing and controlling marine pollution. It includes:
- Nutrient pollution
- Untreated wastewater
- Solid waste discharges
- Hazardous substances
- Emissions from the maritime sector, including shipping, shipwrecks
- Anthropogenic underwater noise
- Other pledges include developing and promoting innovative financing solutions to help create sustainable ocean-based economies as well as expanding nature-based solutions to help conserve and preserve coastal communities.
- The “BBNJ Treaty”, also known as the “Treaty of the High Seas”
- is an international agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, currently under negotiation at the United Nations.
- Is being developed within the framework of the UNCLOS
- Launched at the One Ocean Summit in February 2022, the High Ambition Coalition on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction brings together many delegations engaged in the BBNJ negotiations on a common and ambitious outcome at the highest political level.