2024-01-17 22:47:24
Chile became, this week, the first country to approve the Agreement on Marine Biodiversity beyond National Jurisdiction or Glocal Treaty of the Oceans.
This agreement seeks to place 30% of the world’s oceans in protected areas, allocate more money to marine conservation and safeguard access and use of marine genetic resources.
On January 16, 2024, the Senate unanimously ratified the global treaty that is a crucial tool to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Chile played a relevant role throughout the entire discussion process, leading its debate in international forums that lasted almost two decades.
The resident coordinator of the United Nations System in Chile, María José Torreshighlighted that this approval is a reflection of the importance that the State of Chile gives to environmental challenges, emphasizing “the relevance of the country in global efforts to counteract the destructive trends that confront the health of the oceans, now and for generations to come. ”.
In this context, UN Chile will continue to work with all local actors to ensure a healthier, more resilient and sustainable ocean that benefits people and the planet.
Details of the Global Ocean Treaty
In June 2023, the member countries of the United Nations agreed on the drafting of the text that seeks to guarantee the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
The agreement is vital to achieving the ocean-related goals and objectives of the Sustainable Development Agenda and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Frameworkthe so-called ’30×30′ commitment to protect a third of the world’s biodiversity, on land and sea by 2030, achieved at the United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity (COP15) in December 2022.
The Global Ocean Treaty seeks to strengthen ocean governance, create new policies for the conservation and sustainability of marine biological diversity, beyond 200 nautical miles, including marine protected areas on the high seas, as well as promote the sustainable use of marine genetic resources; evaluate environmental impacts and make an equitable distribution of benefits so that developing countries are also favored. In addition to promoting sustainable management of marine biological diversity to guarantee various human rights, such as food and the environment, among others.
So that the new treaty will enter into force 120 days following the deposit of the 60th instrument of ratification, which is expected to be fulfilled before the United Nations Ocean Conference, which will be held in France in June 2025. The secretary General Assembly of the United Nations must convene the first Conference of the Parties (COP) within one year following entry into force.
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