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SINGAPORE, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A landmark global treaty to safeguard biodiversity in the high seas came into effect on Saturday, providing countries with a legally binding framework to tackle threats such as overfishing and meet a target to protect 30% of the ocean environment by 2030.
The U.N. treaty, also known as Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), was finalised in March 2023 after 15 years of negotiations, and will allow the creation of a global network of “marine protected areas” in vast and previously unregulated ocean ecosystems lying in international waters.
I’m going to heartily disagree the UN is a forum, not a centre of governance. Get sovereign nations talking. In that respect it has been highly successful.
The UN “failures” are not it own, but those of geopolitical powers bent on unilateral evil. There is a lot of that going round. Time to move the UN headquarters from NYC to Montreal, Melbourn, Lison or Singapore.
The US has demonstrably proven itself unworthy of the UN headquarters. Long past time to move to a country who values multilateralism.