At UN Ocean Conference, Nations and Funders Seek to Create and Expand Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas

The global goal of protecting 30 percent of the world’s ocean by 2030 remains paramount to attendees who call for accelerated action to halt biodiversity loss and climate change.By Teresa TomassoniNICE, France—Resolute about their efforts to protect 30 percent of the Earth’s global ocean by 2030, world leaders agreed to sweeping but nonbinding commitments at last week’s United Nations Ocean Conference to designate vast stretches of their territorial waters as marine protected areas.

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At UN Ocean Conference, Nations and Funders Seek to Create and Expand Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas