UN ocean conference opens in Nice with focus on conservation, climate action

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UN ocean conference opens in Nice with focus on conservation, climate action  The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) opened Monday in Nice, France, bringing together world leaders, scientists, and environmental advocates to address urgent challenges facing the world's oceans, from pollution to overfishing and climate change.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/06/09/un-ocean-conference-opens-in-nice-with-focus-on-conservation-climate-action  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00The French President Emmanuel Macron opened the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice on Monday,

00:07calling for urgent action to protect the oceans.

00:11He urged war leaders to resist the force of inertia and follow through on their environmental commitments.

00:18He also warned against using economic development as an excuse for pursuing dangerous deep-sea mining projects.

00:24Through a plan for the protection of ocean flows and a very precise map will be presented at this conference,

00:31we will now classify the most sensitive ecosystems such as seagrass, bears and canyons as highly protected.

00:37Human activities will therefore be regulated and some will be prohibited.

00:42Fishing techniques like bottom trawling as well as all mining activities will be restricted in the zones

00:47which have been mapped out based on scientific data in consultation with our fishermen.

00:52The zones will be designated, allowing us more than double the level of our strong protection within our exclusive economic zones.

01:01The conference seeks to address climate funding, plastic pollution and deep-sea mining

01:07with outcomes to be presented at the United Nations in New York this July.

01:12The U.S. is not attending the summit in Nice following the Trump administration's effective withdrawal

01:17from all climate-related agreements.

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