Question 21556 — sea and coastline

Summary

Mr. Gabriel Serville draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas not under national jurisdiction. Indeed, in September 2018, the Intergovernmental Conference on a legally binding international instrument relating to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea opened at the United Nations. the third and penultimate substantive session of this Intergovernmental Conference will be held in New York from August 19 to 30, 2019, several other major international events will, in the coming months, remind us of the immense role of the oceans, both in the regulation of the global climate system and in the maintenance of biodiversity. The IPCC will publish its special report on the ocean and cryosphere in September 2019. context of climate change. In December 2019, the Blue COP will take place in Chile, which will focus on putting the oceans at the center of the climate issue. This political sequence in favor of the protection of the oceans will then continue in 2020 in France with the holding of the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille. Finally, China will host COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity in October. This political calendar reinforces the Intergovernmental Conference on the High Seas as a historic political momentum in favor of the protection of the oceans. The signing of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 was only possible thanks to France's strong political and diplomatic involvement in raising these environmental issues to the highest level. Today, the country once again has a major role to play in these negotiations. France has of the second largest maritime domain in the world, which makes France a key player on these issues. Furthermore, France's voice counts in international dialogue and the upcoming holding of two major international events in France (G7, IUCN World Conservation Congress) gives it the opportunity to create with the oceans what it has managed to do for the climate, that is to say a global ripple effect in favor of the protection of oceans and marine biodiversity. Under these conditions, he questions the Government's desire for a possible agreement that would be able to ensure effective protection of marine biodiversity in areas not under national jurisdiction and the ecosystem services it provides.

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