The global target to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 is on course to fail unless governments place human rights at the centre of marine conservation policy, Greenpeace International has warned in a new report published today.
The report, Global Ocean Justice Now: Making the Case for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Marine Conservation, argues that a structural failure is undermining international biodiversity commitments – one in which coastal and Indigenous communities, whose stewardship has demonstrably kept ocean ecosystems healthy, are being consistently excluded from or actively harmed by the conservation strategies nominally designed to protect those same ecosystems.
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