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World Oceans Day
J u n e 8
2023 THEME
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Courtesy, UN - California Sea Lion playing with a starfish in Baja California. PHOTO: Hannes Klostermann / Coral Reef Image Bank
Worldwide Events: https://unworldoceansday.org/calendar/
United Nations
Secretary-General’s 2023 Message

Courtesy, United Nations
The ocean is the foundation of life. It supplies the air we breathe and food we eat.
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It regulates our climate and weather. The ocean is our planet’s greatest reservoir of biodiversity.
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Its resources sustain communities, prosperity and human health around the world.
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Humanity counts on the ocean. But can the ocean count on us?
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We should be the ocean’s best friend. But right now, humanity is its worst enemy.
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Human-induced climate change is heating our planet, disrupting weather patterns and ocean currents, and altering marine ecosystems and the species living there.
Marine biodiversity is under attack from overfishing, over-exploitation and ocean acidification.
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Over one-third of fish stocks are being harvested at unsustainable levels.
And we are polluting our coastal waters with chemicals, plastics and human waste.
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But this year’s World Oceans Day reminds us that the tides are changing.
Last year, we adopted an ambitious global target to conserve and manage 30 per cent of land and marine and coastal areas by 2030, as well as a landmark agreement on fisheries subsidies.
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At the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, the world agreed to push for more positive ocean action.
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A global, legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution is under negotiation.
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And in March, countries agreed to the historic High Seas Treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
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Realizing the great promise of these initiatives requires collective commitment.
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Sustainable Development Goal 14 — to conserve and sustainably use the ocean’s resources — hangs in the balance.
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This World Oceans Day, let’s keep pushing for action.
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Today and every day, let’s put the ocean first.
Text Courtesy, United Nations - UN Secretary-General, António Guterres



Ocean Food for Thought
If the true "Global Families of Humanity,"
knowing & respecting the importance
of "healthy oceans" within a
"healthy environment,"
​are NOT the ones
carelessly contributing to
OCEAN DEGRADATION
then who are the real
CONTRIBUTING CULPRITS?!
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Can anyone imagine Earth
without its Oceans?
Video Courtesy, NASA Goddard


That would be a hard thing to imagine as there would
be no life on Earth to
imagine anything
without our life-sustaining
OCEANS!
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Previous Announcements
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Save the Dates . . .
Lisbon, Portugal: 27 June – 1 July 2022
In 2017, the United Nations Secretary-General Guterres appointed Ambassador Peter Thomson of Fiji as his
Special Envoy for the Ocean
MUST SEE VIDEO:
Video Courtesy, United Nations
SAVE OUR OCEAN, PROTECT OUR FUTURE.
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When we protect the ocean, the ocean protects us back. In the lead-up to the UN Ocean Conference, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy Peter Thomson urge governments, industries and civil society to join forces and take action to reverse the decline in the ocean’s health.
With every breath we take, we are connected to the ocean. The ocean gives us oxygen, provides us with food and livelihoods. It stabilizes our climate, absorbing most of the heat trapped in the Earth’s system. Billions of humans, animals and plants rely on a healthy ocean. But the ocean is in trouble. Rising carbon emissions are making the ocean more acidic, weakening its ability to sustain life underwater and on land. Plastic waste is choking the ocean. More than half of the world’s marine species may stand on the brink of extinction by 2100, if we continue on the current track.
Solutions exist that can help us restore the health of the ocean. But it will require action from all parts of society, from world leaders to the person in the street.
The UN Ocean Conference, which will take place from June 27 to July 1 this year in Lisbon, Portugal, provides a critical opportunity to mobilize partnerships and increase investment in science-driven approaches.
I urge governments, industries and civil society to join forces and take action to reverse the decline in the ocean’s health. When we protect the ocean, the ocean protects us back. We must stop destroying the life support systems of this planet and restore humanity’s relationship the ocean to one of with respect and balance.
I count on your support to make that so.
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Text Courtesy, UN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXhB2r-A1qo&t=27s
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See Also. . .
Ocean Science for Sustainable Development: 2021 - 2030
THE SCIENCE WE NEED FOR THE OCEAN WE WANT
A DECADE TO RESTORE OUR
THE SCIENCE WE NEED FOR THE OCEAN WE WANT
OCEANS
Courtesy, United Nations
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Crucial Question?!
Concerning our Oceans . . .
Is there anything to
Celebrate?

Courtesy, Erik Solheim, Head of the UN Environment, participates in the largest beach clean-up in history at Versova Beach. UNEP
Survival Questions?

Photo Courtesy, http://www.globalchange.gov/explore/oceans
Are YOU caring for our
Oceans for the survival
of our Planet and
the whole of . . .
"HUMANITY?"

Courtesy, http://www.fotoartbook.com/?p=53992
Are YOU “thrashing and
trashing” our Precious
Oceans & Marine Life
with "PLASTICS"
on a global scale?


Learn more here: http://21stcenturychallenges.org
Are YOU “lawlessly dumping"
all manner of debris and toxicants which serve
to destroy our
"O N L Y"
Planetary Ocean System?



Courtesy, https://www.pinterest.com/ecomanias/sabias-que-sobre-aquello-que-no-queremos-saber/
Courtesy, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015_05_17_archive.html
Courtesy, http://protomag.com/articles/down-and-dirty
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R e m e m b e r :
Revitalization is a
Collective Action for the Ocean!

Courtesy, Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia
Learn more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean
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R e m i n d e r :
“True Citizens” of our
Planetary homeland,
E A R T H
DO NOT
P O L L U T E
O U R
O C E A N S !


Courtesy, http://www.greenpeace.org

Learn more here: http://www.greenpeace.org
“True Citizens” take action
to ensure the proper
care, maintenance
and
SUSTAINABILITY
of the whole of
O U R V I T A L
OCEAN SYSTEM!

Photo Courtesy, UN/Francisco Gordo Cano – Sea Bed in the Canary Islands (Gran Canaria Spain)
Are YOU
a . . .
“TRUE CITIZEN?”


Let's ALL ensure a "sustainable"
reason to proudly . . .
Celebrate
Our "Life-Sustaining"
O C E A N S !
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"World Oceans Day"
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