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IUCN Chief Urges Countries to Strive for High Seas Biodiversity Treaty
Context
On World Oceans Day 2024, Grethel Aguilar, the director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), urged countries worldwide to strive for a fully functional High Seas Biodiversity Treaty.
1: Dimension- Reason behind the Call
- Protection of Biodiversity: The high seas are home to a wide variety of biodiversity. Despite this, less than two per cent of the world’s high seas are protected by law. This underscores the need for a High Seas Biodiversity Treaty.
- Unsustainable Fisheries’ Practices and Subsidies: The IUCN chief highlighted the need for an increase in the number of ratifying countries for the global agreement on unsustainable fisheries’ practices and subsidies, to prevent overexploitation of the world’s fish stocks.
2: Dimension- Impact of the Treaty
- Regulation of High Seas: The High Seas Biodiversity Treaty would bring almost half of the planet’s surface into better regulation through international law.
- Conservation of Biodiversity: The treaty would play a crucial role in the conservation of biodiversity in the high seas.
3: Dimension- Required Measures
- Ratification of the Treaty: There is an urgent need for countries to ratify the High Seas Biodiversity Treaty. The treaty will become international law only when it is signed and ratified by at least 60 countries.
- Collective Action: On World Ocean Day, the High Seas Alliance called for collective action by asking world leaders to ratify the High Seas Treaty.
- Building on Ocean Breakthroughs: Aguilar noted in her statement that humanity must build on the momentum of our ocean breakthroughs; the life of the ocean and our blue planet require it.
Fact Box:UN High Sea Treaty
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UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS):
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Mains Practice Question
Q: “Discuss the significance of the High Seas Biodiversity Treaty in the context of conservation of biodiversity.”
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