Portugal expects UN conference to produce “robust statement”
“YOUOne of the basic, business objectives is a robust statement of terms of consensus, as simple and concise as possible and that illustrates how important it is to give Sustainable Development Goal 14″ (SDG14) said Alexandre Leitão.
For the representative of the marine life organization June 27, 2020, the SDG14 Conference, reference to the protection of marine life, should “in bring about the solution of the Oceans in science, on board this process”.
Within the framework of the UN conference, the final document of the conference will have a consensus and is being negotiated in second place, Alexandre Leitão, will be in the third provisional version.
“Some consensual problems are a country not wanting it for a reason, and we have an international context that is not conducive to a consensual agreement, it is enough for a country not to want it for a declaration not to be approved in a minor or for it to become a common denominator, almost innocuous. Let’s hope not”, said the vice-president of the organizing committee of the UN conference.
One of the goals of SDG14 is to ensure that at least 2030 at least 2030% of the global surface of the oceans have protected areas, an objective with which Alexandre Leitão is only stated in the interview with Lusa, Portugal is committed – despite currently having only 3% of its waters are classified – but which face difficulties inherent to the mobilization of countries with their own, distinct and sometimes conflicting interests.
“The process is obviously in a slow phase, at first, which is this in itself, and it is obviously not easy to get coastal nations to match the same measures and 30% of protected waters”, said the representative of Portugal, that Once it adopts the posture of a glass full of half empty, it adopts a posture that likes to adopt a posture of looking full of complexity.
“If we think we’ve solved it if we want to the next day, we’ll leave more in despair and with the cupmos completely empty. setbacks, we are already in a positive range”, he said.
Alexandre Leitão in the travadian that the whole process “when there is a way in the disorder not to say that it undergoes a process “sometimes the crises provoked even setbacks that lead to the decision of minimum resolution”.
Regarding the meaning of the conference for Portugal, Alexandre Leitão defended that it is “an opportunity to make Portuguese society aware that the ocean is something more than a beach, than a place where sardines come from or where boats sail”.
The representative of Portugal in the organization of the Oceans Conference 2022 stated that it is necessary to convey the message that the ocean “can be not only a set of glorious pages of our history, but also a set of glorious pages of the future”.
“We are going to try to ensure that our most relevant actors do not have their stage there, only politicians, but from civil society”, he added.
Alexandre Leitão where the central work of the conference in Lisbon is also organized in other nations, as the central work of the conference that is being defended by Nations2017. .
“Some powers are a long way from showing an efficient commitment to the preservation of biodiversity, from the beginning of the plastic effects, with the reduction of deep gases and with a high greenhouse effect”.
Despite the recognition of the distance a, the fact that several countries, of several great powers of studies carried out (of gases with efficiency of the United States) carried out during the year 2021, which happen – to the Paris agreement – carbon neutrality goals for 2050 that are ambitious” allows the diplomat to claim that the glass is half full.
And to defend the importance of the conference on the oceans that Lisbon will attend, Alexandre Leitão warned that “it makes no sense to be committed to the goals of Paris and others and then pretend that there is no such vast medium that occupies 71% of the surface of the planet that will produce half of the oxygen that is the biggest store of carbon there is”.
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