Portugal hosts Ocean Conference this summer. Goal? Making goals come out of paper – Current Affairs
A world conference, which will take place from June 27 to July 1, is co-organized by Portugal and Kenya and takes place two years after the data predicted because of the pandemic that “knocked on the door” of the world in 2020.
With this 2017 conference that was experienced in the United States, then they intend to give impetus to the adoption of “United solutions, let’s study the ocean in science” for the sustainable management of water in science, fight the sustainable to the acidification of water, support, illegal fishing and loss of habitats and biodiversity.
The UN recalls that the oceans, which cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, face and are home to up to 80% of all life in the world, to “unprecedented threats” as a result of human activity and calls for action.
The oceans produce 50% of the oxygen needed to breathe
“If we want some more questions from the most important issues of our time, like economic issues, food problems, diseases and even pandemics, we must act now to protect our most striking states, food problems, diseases and even pandemics, we must act now to protect our most outstanding states”, United Nations page dedicated to the Lisbon conference.
The United Nations records that the oceans are oxygen: They generate 50% of what is needed to breathe, 25% of the greenhouse carbon absorption modifications responsible for contacting the Earth’s surface) and additionally capture 90% of the heat generated by it.
“Furthermore, food resources, energy and energy resources and resources on the planet survive.”
The UN has set 10 goals to achieve between 2020 and 2030 Within the scope of sustainable development 14 of Goal SDG14), reference to the protection of the reduction of marine life, the acid economy, the protection of ecosystems, the regulation of fisheries and the increase of scientific knowledge.
Many targets are only expressed on paper and not only expressed on paper, partly denouncing the failure of the first oceans conference of 2017 in Nova, led by Sweden and the Republic of Fiji, for how many application of SDG14, adopted in 2015.
The Lisbon conference, for which it already has 8,818 accredited entities and 21 Heads of State and Government confirmed or in the process of being confirmedwill be attended by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres in the opening session.
The start of work on the Oceans Conference 2022 will be chaired by the Portuguese head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who will also deliver the closing speech. The inaugural intervention will be a charge of the Prime Minister António Costa.
“It is enough for a country not to want a declaration not to be approved”
According to the presence, 25 countries have confirmed at least at ministerial level. Kenya, which is co-organizing a conference, Ecuador, Colombia and Nigeria are already announced presences of heads of state at the event, which will have two major segments: a plenary session and eight thematic dialogues. 353 requests were also submitted from events.
Specific accreditations for the 2022 Ocean Conference debates are 942, while for the 2017 there were 108, which, for the organization, reveals the growth of global interest in ocean protection issues.
In search of a “robust statement”
Portugal hopes that a United Nations conference on Oceans that will take place in Lisbon will produce a “robust declaration” in defense of marine life, the vice president of the organizing committee of the global conference said in an interview with Lusa.
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“One of the goals, negotiated 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, referring 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 as a minor or to stay. common denominator, almost innocuous. Hopefully not commission”, said the vice president of the UN conference organizer.
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 adopts the posture of a glass full of half empty” to adopt a more complex posture.
“The ocean can be not only a set of glorious pages of our history, but also a set of glorious pages of our future.”
“If we think we have solved the problems the next day, we will always leave in despair and with a completely empty glass. But if we want to look at them and realize that what happened to the President (French, François, history) was identified slowly and as long as there is progress in the process it is always positive even if the process is with the same process speed desired . As long as there are no setbacks, we are already on a positive track,” he said.
Alexandre Leitão in the travadian that undergoes a whole process “when there is such a thing as confusion, not to say that it undergoes a process” “sometimes crises bring about a process until setbacks that lead to the decision of minimal 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 important actors do not have their stage there, only politicians, but civil society actors”, he added.
Alexandre Leitão where the central work of the conference being presented at Nations2017 is also organized in other nations. .
“Some powers are far from showing an effective commitment to the preservation of biodiversity, from the plastic effects, with a deep greenhouse of gases and a very high greenhouse effect”.
Despite the recognition of the distance to be known, the fact that several countries, from several major powers, carried out studies (of gases with efficiency in the United States) took place during the year 2021, which were carried out during the year 2021, which were carried out – to the Paris agreement – carbon neutrality targets for 2050 that are ambitious” allows the diplomat to defend 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 that exists”.
* Interview with Ana Paula Pires and João Miguel Roque (LUSA)