
How to create a healthy ocean that benefits everyone
Restoring the health of the ocean is a key part in combatting global warming. If we work together, we have the opportunity to make real and meaningful change.
1972-87, civil servant in the government of Fiji, working in the fields of rural development and foreign affairs. 1978, joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Suva; postings included Japan, Australia and Fiji; in Fiji, served as Permanent Secretary of Information and Permanent Secretary to the Governor-General; 1987, resigned from the civil service; 2010, resumed diplomatic duties. Formerly: Fiji’s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York; 2013, chaired the United Nations’ largest negotiating bloc, the Group of 77 and China; 2014, served as President of the Executive Board of the UN Development Programme/UN Population Fund/UN Office for Programme Support; President of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly. October 2017, appointed UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean.
Restoring the health of the ocean is a key part in combatting global warming. If we work together, we have the opportunity to make real and meaningful change.
La Conferencia de la ONU sobre los Océanos se centrará en los principales retos y oportunidades a los que se enfrenta el océano en la actualidad, desde la sobrepesca hasta el exceso de em...
The UN Ocean Conference will be focussing on the major challenges and opportunities faced by the ocean today, from overfishing to excess carbon emissions.
Members of the WTO have been negotiating rules for two decades to stop harmful fisheries subsidies. Will they fulfil their commitment to protect the ocean?
海洋環境の悪化を食い止めるために活動するグローバルコミュニティは、今年11月に、英国グラスゴーで開催予定のCOP26(国連気候変動枠組条約第26回締約国会議)に期待をかけています。気候変動の緩和と適応のために海洋が担う重要な貢献が必須検討事項となること、そして海洋と気候の関係が示す課題への取り組みを強化しリソースを拡大することが、COP26の結論に盛り込まれることです。
It is vital that we see an exponential increase in the share of climate finance going into the sustainable blue economy over the next decade.
Overfishing is a social injustice. To end it, we need to eliminate the harmful fisheries subsidies that are overexploiting the ocean's resources.
Peter Thomson, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean's makes the case for a 'blue-green' recovery following the coronavirus pandemic.
Overfishing, plastic pollution, falling oxygen levels and rising temperatures are deteriorating ocean health. We must change our ways if we are to save them, writes Peter Thomson, the U.N...
Global negotiations crucial to stopping over-fishing and guaranteeing the future of the ocean are coming to a head. Here's what needs to happen.
インドの海岸沿いに位置するオリッサ州。そこで農業を生活の糧としてきた女性たちは、災いから新たな機会を生み出してきました。サイクロンや海面上昇、水中の塩分濃度の上昇によって甚大な被害を受けた同州では、肥沃な土地が不毛の地と化し、女性たちは、収入源を失い、栄養不良から健康状態も悪化。社会から取り残されているという思いを強めるという苦しい状況に、長年立たされていました。
A lack of gender diversity is stifling the innovation, productivity and solutions women can offer for creating sustainable ocean livelihoods - and that has to change. It's time to highl...
In order to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and secure the livelihoods of millions across the developing world, harmful subsidies to large fleets must end by 2020.
In his message to G7 leaders, the United Nations Special Envoy for the Ocean says sending a strong signal on oceans will fast-track solutions to our planet's most pressing challenges: cli...
Our oceans are in decline, and human activity is to blame. To reverse this trend, we must move with purposeful steps. Here are five that could be taken immediately.