The UNEA-6, or the United Nations Environment Assembly implemented a transitional resolution to start safeguarding oceans; this was introduced in March of 2024, where UNEA-6 aims to salvage marine life and proceed cautiously with protection.
The UN details the loss of biodiversity and consistent pollution, and rivals it with what they have called , The Triple Planetary Crisis, that motions for resolution directly for climate change, biodiversity, and pollutants. It implements the support of a wide range of nations being integrated through modern science to take action for our oceans.
The BBNJ Treaty
The BBNJ Treaty stands for the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement that manages the marine life in locales and domains that are outside of national territorial waters, which would make up around two thirds of the world. Within this treaty, it ensures the safety and accordance of these oceans from foreign human forces, commonly being mining, pullants, and fishing. There is an importance given to the conservation and future material/biotechnology objectives.
The BBNJ is a treaty that stands by itself, however for it to be legally binding or implemented through international agreement enough countries must ratify formally. Without beginning this process, the oceans still will not receive the regulational and support that was agreed upon, and it will continue to face impacts of threatening human pollutants. As part of the UN’s resolution in March, ratifying this agreement became a necessity in order to formulate growth towards protecting the ocean.
New Ideas
Alongside ratifying older concepts and plans, plastic was also addressed and with the amount of oceans being contaminated in the past decade, the UN believes it is rightful that as a whole, negotiations of legally binding treaties of plastic pollution must be implemented and hoped to have completed it by 2024. Similarly, ocean acidification which is perpetuated by excess carbon dioxide is harming marine life, specifically the coral reefs. As part of the resolution, interest groups and scientists have been called to action on researching ways in which it would be possible to reduce the effects.
Global Involvement
The Global Biodiversity Framework, or GBF, targets the extreme decrease of biodiversity internationally by the year 2023, and the UN hopes to follow in ocean protection that would stop thai framework from unfolding, specifically by protecting at least three tenths of the planet wild and marine life.
The IMO or International Maritime Organization also hopes to cut shipping emissions, as it accounts for 3% of all gas emissions, and hope to reduce it by 2030 and a net-zero by 2050.
SDG 15
SDG 15, “Life on Land”, targets, protects and rebuilds the conservations and unlines the significance of cooperatives, such as ecosystem and community forestry and fisheries. These industries depend upon strengthened environments, but are not at the forefront of legal resolutions as a conservation.
Cooperatives unite community entities and locales to present a reinforcement in the conservation’s overall health and climate. Cooperatives more or less serve as a representative for the SDG 15’s approach to healthy ecosystems.