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World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF, is in New York, at the negotiating table, to get the Treaty of the High Seas ready. Listen to my interview with one of their leading policy officers, Jessica Battle, to get up to speed on the conversation about why the ocean and biodiversity are central to addressing climate change.
The meeting started on the 20 February, at the highest political level, and has a very ambitious goal: the establishment of an international agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, or also known as the Treaty of the High Seas.
The process is convened under the auspices of the United Nations, with the EU steering it, and now the US also announced that will be pushing it to the top of the agenda.
Areas beyond national jurisdiction comprise more than two thirds of the ocean.
The treaty will address designated marine protected areas, human activities regulation, and protection of biodiversity in the High Seas.
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