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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.

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UN chief: Our global recovery must include a plan for the ocean

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.

What we've promised will not be enough to save the world's oceans

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...

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These next four months of trade talks will decide the future of our oceans

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.

海洋保全で重要な貢献を果たすジェンダー平等

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。

Gender parity has a huge role to play in the fight to save our oceans

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...

90% of fish stocks are used up – fisheries subsidies must stop emptying the ocean

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.

The G7 should take the lead on ocean targets for 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...

The decline of our oceans is accelerating, but it’s not too late to stop it

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.

Our opportunity to halt the ocean’s decline

The ocean is in trouble. Its bill of health does not make for happy reading, and there is clear conclusion that human-based activities are the cause of the ocean’s decline.