{"id":1403,"date":"2021-06-07T19:29:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T17:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/news\/dalla_rappresentanza\/2021\/06\/messaggio-del-segretario-generale_3-2\/"},"modified":"2021-06-07T19:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T17:29:29","slug":"messaggio-del-segretario-generale_3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dalla_rappresentanza\/2021\/06\/messaggio-del-segretario-generale_3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Message of the UN Secretary-General for World Oceans Day 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/iframe><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nTHE SECRETARY-GENERAL<\/strong><\/p>\n—<\/strong><\/p>\nMESSAGE FOR WORLD OCEANS DAY<\/strong><\/p>\n8 June 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThis year\u2019s observance of World Oceans Day falls as the world wrestles with the COVID-19 pandemic, a climate crisis and humankind\u2019s continuing assault on oceans, seas and marine resources.<\/p>\nThe recently issued Second World Ocean Assessment confirmed that many of the benefits that the global ocean provides to humankind are being undermined by our own actions.<\/p>\nOur seas are choking with plastic waste, which can be found from the remotest atolls to the deepest ocean trenches.<\/p>\nOverfishing is causing an annual loss of almost $90 billion in net benefits \u2013 which also heightens the vulnerability of women, who are vital to the survival of small-scale fishing businesses.<\/p>\nCarbon emissions are driving ocean warming and acidification, destroying biodiversity and causing sea level rise that threatens heavily inhabited coastlines.<\/p>\nThe theme of this year\u2019s observance, \u201cThe Ocean: Life and Livelihoods\u201d, underscores the importance of oceans for the cultural life and economic survival of communities around the world.<\/p>\nMore than three billion people rely on the ocean for their livelihoods, the vast majority in developing countries.<\/p>\nAs we strive to recover from COVID-19, let\u2019s end our war on nature.<\/p>\nThis will be critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, keeping within reach the 1.5-degree target of the Paris Agreement, and ensuring the health of our oceans for today\u2019s and future generations.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/observances\/oceans-day\">United Nations \u2013 World Oceans Day<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 THE SECRETARY-GENERAL — MESSAGE FOR WORLD OCEANS DAY 8 June 2021 \u00a0 This year\u2019s observance of World Oceans Day falls as the world wrestles with the COVID-19 pandemic, a climate crisis and humankind\u2019s continuing assault on oceans, seas and marine resources. The recently issued Second World Ocean Assessment confirmed that […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}