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One Ocean Summit: PM Modi To Address High-Level Segment Today — Know More About 3-Day Event

Convened by the French president Emmanuel Macron, the three-day summit is focused on efforts to improve governance of the high seas and coordination of international scientific research.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today address the high-level segment of the One Ocean Summit through a video message at around 2:30 pm.

The high-level segment of this summit will be addressed by various other Heads of State and Governments from countries like Germany, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, Canada among others. 

One Ocean Summit is being organised in France from February 9 to 11. Convened by the French president Emmanuel Macron, the three-day summit is focused on efforts to improve governance of the high seas and coordination of international scientific research.

“This initiative is about raising international ambition and getting concrete, measurable commitments to tangible action,” Poivre d’Arvor, France’s ambassador for the north and south poles and marine issues told the British daily The Guardian on hosting the One Ocean Summit.

One Ocean Summit 

The objective of the One Ocean Summit is to mobilise the international community to take tangible action towards preserving and supporting healthy and sustainable ocean ecosystems.

The decade between 2021 and 2030 has been declared as the 'Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development' by the United Nations to raise awareness and restore declining marine life.

Organised jointly by the IOC-UNESCO and the Government of France, this summit is the first major event taking place in the first year of the decade dedicated to the ocean.

The “One Ocean Summit” will be held in the context of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, with the support of the United Nations,” read the statement by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.  

“The goal of the One Ocean Summit is to raise the collective level of ambition of the international community on marine issues and to translate our shared responsibility to the ocean into tangible commitments,” it added. 

Ahead of the high-level segment, there were more than thirty events organised to engage with the global maritime community. 

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