High Seas Treaty: UN member states seal historic deal to protect international waters

Cecilia Keating
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The final session ran for 36 hours before a deal was struck | Photo by IISD/ENB, Mike Muzurakis
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The final session ran for 36 hours before a deal was struck | Photo by IISD/ENB, Mike Muzurakis

New legal powers for countries to create protected areas in high seas seen as major boost to hopes of delivering '30x30' biodiversity target

An historic treaty to protect the ocean has been agreed at the United Nations, nearly two decades after talks started to deliver a legally binding deal to protect biodiversity in waters that sit outside...

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