He You come last week, the unoc3, the ocean summit that was held in Niza and that he sought to give solutions to the problems that affect the oceans around the world and therefore to their biodiversity and those that depend on them for their subsistence.
In the conferencfia it has been spoken Of many issues, but two leftwhich are obviously of enormous importance and that they should have treated more thoroughly and that should be sought urgently.
He First is fossil fuels and the need for them to stop using for the good of the health of the planet and the seas and oceans. And the Another is that of fishing and its unsustainable variantsunfortunately are the most common and allowed.
What does the UNOC3 leave us?
A global pact for the reduction of fossil energy emissions and for the fight against illegal fishing and drags have Points of the UN Summit of the Oceans (UNOC3) of Nice that concludes this FridayThey considered climatic experts.
Likewise, financial commitments have not been expected either. Among the main public investments, The EU announced a plan on the oceans endowed with 1,000 million euros. Pacific microstates most affected by marine pollution have complained about the slowness in the arrival of financial resources, something that has not been resolved in Nice.
Energy that burns fossil fuels
«What we saw throughout The UNOC3 conference was a persistent difficulty to include the issue of fossil fuels in the official agenda and in parallel events«, Criticized Bruna Campos, responsible for Offshore gas and oil campaigns of the Center for International Environmental Law (Ciel).
The emission of fossil energies is associated with a global increase in temperatures and, therefore, of the rise in the seas level by the thaw of the poles. «The rise in sea level has become the main threat to our existence and The best way to combat it is to fight against co -emissions2because that is the simplest solution to climate change«, He estimated during the UNOC3 El Primer Minister De Tuvalu, Feleti Teo.
In the best of the temperatures increase scenarios by 2050 (the 1.5 degrees Celsius of Paris in 2015), The nine coral islands of Tuvalu will suffer increasingly frequent floods That, in 2050, they can cover, during certain events such as storms or tides, 60 % of the main island.
The minister of another island state present in the UNOC3, The ecological adaptation in Fiyi Sivendra Michael, was especially critical. «What really happens is that the rules and conditions of the Negotiations are dictated by large companies and representatives of oil producing countries. That is a great injustice ».
Drag and illegal fishing in UNOC3
“It is not that illegal fishing has been in the background is that the expert in marine biology, Michael Sealey, sorry in statements, despite the efforts of the host of the appointment, France, and other European fishing powers, such as Spain, such as Spain, The impulse to global combat to that illegal fishing, not declared and not regulated was in limbo in the UNOC3.
It is estimated that at least 15 % of fish catches come from that kind of fishing. For France, the illegal fishing “violates” the human rights of those who work in it and “destroy” the sectors that do work with the papers in order. According to Sealey, although there are countries like Spain that have a robust fishing control system, other states do better than most of Europe.
“Central American countries, such as Mexico, manage to control the protected areas very well so that there is no illegal fishing,” said the expert. During the closure of the conference, Olivier Poivre D’Arvor, special envoy of the French president, Emmanuel MacronFor UNOC3, it asked China to involve illegal fishing.
On The drag technique -dañino for the maritime bed, according to scientists-, the feeling of the experts was also mitigatedneither was there a general consensus to advance global control. The United Kingdom announced a prohibition of this type of fishing, while France assured that it is “good student”, although they blame him to continue using that technique. He said that only 40 boats in the country use drag, compared to the most numerous in Italy or Spain.
«Drag fishing particularly destroys the ocean bed and drives the climatic crisis. Very little countries have come to the fore to solve it, ”said John Kerry, former secretary of US states and former special envoy for the climate. EFE / ECOticias.com