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The world must pull together to stem the urgent crisis in our oceans
May 29, 2020
The oceans are increasingly threatened by a host of different factors. To tackle these threats will require a fundamental change in the way the international community works and responds. This response must be based on science, cooperation and raising awareness.
The world's oceans are now facing a multidimensional crisis, of which human-made climate change, overfishing, plastic pollution and ocean acidification are all factors. There is an urgent need to step up our efforts to protect the marine environment by averting this crisis. This is a matter of national security.
The protection of the marine environment is an urgent issue for Japan as well, an island nation surrounded by the sea, but its policies are fragmented and insufficient, and lag behind those of many other developed countries.
We need to fundamentally change the structure of policy-making and to strengthen efforts to achieve a sustainable marine environment, as well as making a positive contribution to the international community.
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As a maritime nation, as a large consumer of marine products, and also as a country that is heavily dependent on marine ecosystem services, it is Japan's international responsibility.
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