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Dignitaries from across the world have flown into Nice on France’s Cote d’Azur for this week’s United Nations Ocean Conference.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will seek this week to get as many as 10,000 commercial ships signed up to help with its scientific mission to get a better understanding of the planet’s seas and oceans.
“Understanding the ocean requires continuous observation,” the UN body stated.
UNESCO has been equipping ships with scientific measuring instruments that transmit real-time data to its Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). More than 2,000 vessels are already equipped, with a new target to involve 10,000 commercial vessels by 2035.
Ships will be equipped with meteorological and oceanographic instruments that transmit real-time data, helping to better assess the effects of climate disruption, anticipate extreme weather events, and improve maritime safety.
The secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Arsenio Dominguez, is also in Nice this week, calling on the international community to demonstrate the “power of multilateralism” by renewing global commitments and actions to protect the ocean.
“We all have a responsibility to safeguard our precious marine environment and resources, on which we all depend. Governments, industries, civil society: this is our ocean, our obligation – and our opportunity,” Dominguez said.
The UN Ocean Conference is being hosted jointly by France and Costa Rica with more than 50 heads of state attending.
“We have a duty to mobilise because the science is clear and the facts are there,” declared Emanuel Macron, the French president, on Sunday, during a visit to Monaco, at the closing of a forum on the blue economy and finance.
“There is the possibility of sustainable fishing. There is the possibility of sustainable maritime transport. There is the possibility of sustainable tourism,” Macron insisted.
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