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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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Decision time for world’s governments on new global treaty for the ocean

20 February, 2023

New York, 20^th February 2023: Today governments resume negotiations at the United Nations in New York to finalize a new High Seas Treaty to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. The two-week Intergovernmental conference is taking place from 20 February to 3 March 2023 and is a resumption of negotiations from August 2022, when governments ran out of time.

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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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