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To celebrate World Oceans Day tomorrow, we’re highlighting the Global Ocean Cleanup campaign!
From June 8th-16th individuals from all over the world are coming together to clean up local beaches.
Last year over 3,100 people from 19 countries came together to host 50+ beach cleanups that removed 44 tons of trash.
All you need is some gloves, a couple of friends and some trash bags to join! We’re urging everyone to schedule their own beach clean up to maximize impact.
Learn more by clicking the link in our bio and tapping on this image.
**If you don’t live near a beach, picking up trash at a local park works too!
Mangrove forests are essential to the survival of life on land and at sea. Yet scientists predict that these vital ecosystems could all but disappear in the next 100 years due to threats like logging, large-scale shrimp farming, and illegal fishing.
Thank you @wildaid for creating this post to educate the community about the importance of mangrove forests!
Behind the eyes of every animal is an individual with a heart and soul.
To celebrate World Ocean’s Month, we want to highlight 5 marine animals that can teach us a thing or two about empathy and compassion. #worldoceanmonth
Great news last week!
A U.N. tribunal on maritime law said that countries are legally required to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, a victory for small island nations that are on the front lines of climate change.
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea found that carbon emissions qualify as marine pollution and said countries must take steps to mitigate and adapt to their adverse effects.
It was the first ruling to come in three cases in which advisory opinions have been sought from international courts about climate change.
Experts say the decision, though not legally binding, could profoundly impact international and domestic law on climate change.
“The opinion is a clarification of international legal obligations,” said Joie Chowdhury, a senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law.
China, Russia and India are among the 169 parties to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, the treaty that underpins the court. The United States, which is the world’s biggest historic emitter of greenhouse gases, is not a party.
“The ocean can breathe a sigh of relief today,” Cheryl Bazard, the Bahamas’ ambassador to the European Union told reporters. Louise Fournier, a legal advisor at Greenpeace, said in a statement that the tribunal’s opinion “marks a significant step forward in international environmental law and the protection of our oceans.”
Small island states are among the most vulnerable nations to climate change, facing encroaching seas, recording breaking temperatures and increasingly severe storms. Last year, Australia offered to allow residents of Tuvalu to relocate to escape the effects of climate change.
Ocean temperatures in particular have increased, worsening the impact on coastal states.
“Without rapid action, climate change may prevent my children and grandchildren from living on their ancestral home,” Gaston Alfonso Browne, the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, told the tribunal last year.
Source: @worldeconomicforum @ecowatch
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