Spain, the first European country that ratifies the ocean global treaty to put laws on the high seas

Spain has ratified on Tuesday at the UN Headquarters in New York The overall treatise. “It is the first European country that does it,” said the third government vice president, Sara Aagesen. Spain is the 16th state that deposits the ratification instrument since the registration was opened in July 2023. 60 countries are needed to ratify the treaty to enter into force.

Aagesen has called for more countries to adhere to the ratification of the treaty after 107 parties have signed it (a first step that does not activate it). “It is a legally binding treaty to protect biodiversity on the high seas, that is, beyond the 200 nautical miles of national sovereignty.” The third vice president hopes that this general ratification will be achieved this year.

The treaty refers to the water on the high seas, pressured by the exploitation of contaminants and the hacking. It is a vast extension of resources. They suppose half of the land surface and more than two thirds of the oceans, an immensity turned into a kind of area without law. Less than 2% are protected, which leaves them at the mercy of almost any abuse.

“There will be competitions that will be led by the EU,” Aagesen clarified, “but others fall in Spain, such as the high -seas zones that leave from our 200 miles zone,” he wanted to clarify the also minister of ecological transition. The global objective is, among others, that 30% of these waters have legal protection (they are now in that exile 1%).

Together with Sara Aagesen was the director of Greenpeace, Eva Saldaña, who has said that at this time “the role of Spain on that path is very important Towards the Nice Ocean Conference, In June of this year, where we want the treaty has been ratified. We do not want there to be hesitant because when we talk about oceans, we talk about three quarters of the planet that are all but are not from anyone: we live in a blue marble. ”

The agreement consists of 75 articles that seek to protect and care for ecosystems as well as ensure “responsible use of marine resources, so that marine habitats are achieved,” describes the UN.

“It is an important day for our country,” WWF director Juan Carlos del Olmo said in the presentation of the instrument, on behalf of the five largest environmental organizations: Greenpeace, Ecologists in Action, WWF, SEO BirdLife and Friends of The Earth. “It is important that it has been the first to launch to ratify. Because it is one of the first fishing powers. A sailor country that has lived, like everyone else, on the back of the sea. That he has overaged and has made him a garbage dump “and also,” at an important moment in which science is questioned and there is a frontal attack on international organizations as in which this treaty was born. That has a special symbolism. ”

“Putting in the center of protection is to put life in the center,” said Eva Saldaña

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