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SINGAPORE, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A landmark global treaty to safeguard biodiversity in the high seas came into effect on Saturday, providing countries with a legally binding framework to tackle threats such as overfishing and meet a target to protect 30% of the ocean environment by 2030.

The U.N. treaty, also known as Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), was finalised in March 2023 after 15 years of negotiations, and will allow the creation of a global network of "marine protected areas" in vast and previously unregulated ocean ecosystems lying in international waters.

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I'm going to go out on a limb here and prognosticate that this treaty will accomplish 3 things: shit, fuck & all.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 3 points 7 hours ago

Better than no treaty & way better than drill baby drill vs the Chinese fishing fleet.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Amen. Just look at tens of thousands of illegal fishing vessels manned by mostly slaves that have their signal turned off most of the time. The satellite images don‘t lie.

The only way to protect biodiversity in the oceans and stop them from collapsing during our lifetime is to stop eating fish. That is unless you caught it yourself.

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

True, UN is dead, after USA turned evil

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I'm going to heartily disagree the UN is a forum, not a centre of governance. Get sovereign nations talking. In that respect it has been highly successful.

The UN "failures" are not it own, but those of geopolitical powers bent on unilateral evil. There is a lot of that going round. Time to move the UN headquarters from NYC to Montreal, Melbourn, Lison or Singapore.

The US has demonstrably proven itself unworthy of the UN headquarters. Long past time to move to a country who values multilateralism.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There's no point now. Trump is fucking the world up and he's all drill baby drill. We now gotta be thinking of alternatives to climate correction. Living underground, living elsewhere, etc.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Oh no the oven is too hot, guess we better turn up the heat more!