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AGREEMENT REACHED TO ADVANCE HIGH SEAS TREATY

4 March, 2023

New Treaty agreed to protect half the planet but formal adoption still required

New York, 4^th March 2023: Late this evening governments meeting at the United Nations in New York reached agreement on key substantive issues for a new Treaty to protect High Seas marine life. To ensure this hard won progress is not lost, The High Seas Alliance is calling for the UN to conclude the formalities of adoption as soon as possible in the final resumed session.

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High Seas Treaty Negotiations – a short history

16 February, 2023

In 2017, the UN convened a series of Intergovernmental Conferences (IGCs) to create an international legally binding Treaty for the High Seas (Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction). Since then five IGCs have failed to secure this crucial Treaty. Before we move into IGC5bis (the resumption of IGC5), here is a brief timeline of the negotiations so far, as reported by China Dialogue Oceans.

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2 decades in the making: a strong High Seas Treaty in numbers

15 February, 2023

21 years since this issue was first discussed at the UN at the Informal Consultative Process meeting in 2002.

1 whole new generation “Z” has been born.

1,700,000,000 extra people on the planet.

5 years since the UN agreed a resolution to start negotiating a treaty.

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High Seas Alliance reaction to U.S. joining High Ambition Coalition

23 January, 2023

23^rd January 2023: High Seas Alliance welcomes the announcement just made by the United States of America that they have joined the High Ambition Coalition for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ).

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