Greenpeace in Spain highlights the Treaty on Oceans

On World Oceans Day, Greenpeace highlighted protecting 30 percent of international waters by 2030, as an essential part of the treaty.

In a statement, he stressed that despite this, marine biodiversity is still endangered due to various threats such as pollution, the presence of plastics in the oceans, and microplastics in the food chain.

In addition, destruction of marine habitats, noise pollution from offshore maneuvers and fossil fuel drilling, climate change, ocean acidification, overfishing, and now a new threat: underwater mining.

In this sense, Greenpeace considered stopping the start of underwater mining in international waters as an outstanding issue.

“This is an emerging industry that some governments and industries in the Global North are trying to launch, and it will enter a new era of resource exploitation with the potential to cause irreversible damage to the oceans, loss of biodiversity and potential threats to a critical carbon sink.”

This Thursday, Greenpeace activists are showing images of various creatures from the sea floor using pixel stick technology in Madrid’s Retiro Park, to denounce the danger that underwater mining may cause to these species. The facility’s crystal palace represents the fragility of the oceans in the face of this threat.

The Global Ocean Treaty cannot be celebrated in its entirety, declared Marta Martín Borregon, Greenpeace oceans officer, “because right now there are so few things that stand between the natural wonders of the ocean depths and the machinery of mining.”

Even considering the possibility of agreeing to deep sea mining – as governments are being pressured to do from July – would be criminal. He said companies at the forefront of the green transition are already calling for it to stop, as are governments from the Pacific to Latin America and Europe.

During today’s event, prominent oceans advocacy figures such as Carlos Bardem and Elena Anaya received their second Green Lightning Award from the Film Academy and Greenpeace.

This group of personalities from the world of cinema, culture and music highlighted their participation in the protection of the oceans, which are necessary to preserve and protect nature, as well as contribute to adapting to climate change, highlighted the environmental organization.

Javier, Carlos Bardem, Alejandro Sanz, Alvaro Longoria, John Cortajarena, Elena Anaya, Penélope Cruz, Ursula Corbero, Inma Cuesta, Dani Guzman, Lucia Jimenez, and Alberto Aman, among others, deserve the distinction.

g/ft