This third United Nations Conference on Oceans (UNOC) which is celebrated in Nice, on the French Costa Blue, has the presence of about 60 heads of state and government who must discuss issues such as deep water mining, plastic or overfishing garbage.
Guterres defended at the beginning of the conference that “marine depths cannot become the wild west”, after The president of the United States, Donald Trump, opened the door to mining in deep water.
The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, called a “Mobilization” to protect the oceans and said that deep waters are not for sale, nor is Greenland, neither Antarctica nor the high seas«.
In this framework, Ecologists have celebrated that since the UNOC3 the possibility of establishing a moratorium that save the deep waters around the world has been put on the tablewhich should be considered a World Heritage.
Mining in deep water
A group From environmental organizations they celebrated on Monday the request of the president of the European Council, António Costa, to support a moratorium on the mining exploitation of seabed in the context of the Summit of the United Nations Oceans held in Nice this week.
“There is no scientific base or economic arguments for deep water mining. Instead, President Costa defends a more intelligent and resistant path, based on innovation in circular economy solutions within the limits of the planet. With today’s statement, the EU powerfully reinforces a growing world consensus, ”said Steve Trent, general director of the Environmental Justice Foundation.
During his speech before The presentation of the European Pact of Oceans, Costa said that the EU «has the will and conditions necessary to become a world scientific center for the knowledge of the oceans«. “That is why a moratorium on the mining exploitation of seabed could be useful,” said the Portuguese, urging to “promote a scientific basis to a worldwide dialogue between public and private sectors.”
Sandrine Polti, responsible for Deep Europe «Marine fund mining raises unacceptable environmental, social and financial risks. We must give priority to science before opening the door to a new extractive industry so destructive », and in turn, he urged all EU member states to support the moratorium. Currently 33 countries support a mining moratorium in deep water. EFE / ECOticias.com