Treaty on the High Seas

Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez discuss the UN High Seas Treaty, which was agreed to by an intergovernmental conference at the UN on March 4, 2023.

This video was recorded on March 29th, 2023, and published on April 29th, 2023.

Some of the topics discussed:

• How the High Seas Treaty is to protect 30% of the seas placing them in Marine Protected Areas.
• How the IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, has a red list of threatened species, which includes over 150,000 species that are on the red list of which 42,000 are threatened with extinction.
• How 41% of the threatened marine species are being impacted by climate change which includes the shellfish called Abalone.
• How Lord Byron, a 19th century poet, foresaw how industrialization would ruin the Earth.
• How 90% of our seas are overfished, which has been ongoing for decades.
• How ocean deoxygenation is following the very worst case scenario of the IPCC and how acidification is accelerating.
• How, with regards to the ocean, we have a long way to go and how science has to fill the gaps.
• and much more . . .

Links

• Draft agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use jurisdiction (pdf)

• What is the UN High Seas Treaty and why is it needed?

• UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15)

• High Seas Treaty

• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

• UN high seas treaty is a landmark - but science needs to fill the gaps

• Paris Agreement

• James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks ‘a fraud’

Regular Panelists:

• Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute

• Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

• Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:

• Charles Gregoire – Climate Reality Leader, Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum

• Heidi Brault - Climate Reality Leader, BA(Psychology), Library & Information Technician Diploma - Video production and website assistant - Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP28 Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum.

Attributions:

Background Music:

• Title: Through the City II
• Author: Crowander
• Source: Free Music Archive
• License: BY-NC 4.0

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