World leaders call on nations to swiftly ratify U.N. ocean treaty

A message reading 'Our Ocean Is Not For Sale' projected by Greenpeace Greece activists onto the SNFCC conference centre in Kallithea, near Athens, on April 15.The European Union and the governments of 13 countries urged nations on Tuesday to prioritize the ratification of a U.N. treaty to protect the world’s oceans from overfishing and other human activities.

So far, four countries – Palau, Chile, Belize and the Seychelles – have formally ratified the treaty, while 89 countries have signed it, expressing their intent to ratify it. The EU’s 40 commitments, announced during the annual conference, range from fighting marine pollution to supporting sustainable fisheries and investments in the so-called blue economy – sustainable use of marine and freshwater resources for economic activity.

Greece will spend 780 million euros on 21 commitments which include a ban on bottom trawling in all of the country’s marine protected areas, he added.

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