A Last-Ditch Effort to Save a High Seas Treaty from Sinking
21 February 2023, 08:15
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (IPS) - When the United Nations began negotiations on a legally binding treaty to protect and regulate the high seas, one diplomat pointedly remarked: “It’s a jungle out there”—characterizing a wide-open ocean degraded by illegal and over-fishing, plastics pollution, indiscriminate sea bed mining and the destruction of marine eco-systems.
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