Twenty heads of state or government are expected in Brest, from 9 to 11 February, while the marine environment suffers multiple pollutions.
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The ocean could almost go for a newcomer to the agenda of major international conferences on the environment, and now operates a remarkable breakthrough in 2022. This year, it will constitute the agenda of At least six major appointments. Reflection Both growing geostrategic challenges, awareness of current upheavals under climate change and covetish that its resources awake. The first of these highlights takes place in Brest, “capital of” maritimacy “for three days”, from 9 to 11 February, according to the expression of Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs and former president of the Brittany region.
Twenty heads of state or government should go to this One Ocean Summit, wanted by Emmanuel Macron in the continuity of the four meetings on the Climate Planet Summit, organized by France since 2017. The idea of This event, which is part of the French Presidency of the European Union, would have sprouted in Marseille in September 2021 at the World Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
These three days of live strength forums and workshops should attract at least four hundred participants and thousands of spectators. On the menu: sciences, culture, education, marine protected areas, but also “blue economy”, a term whose definition and vision vary according to the interlocutors. The four main European maritime transport companies and tourism actors need to share their efforts to reduce the impacts of their activities. The political sequence scheduled on February 11 could give rise to “Brest commitments” by thirty-five founding countries.
Encourage “A training effect”
The Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2019 has reinforced the alarming diagnosis of the state of the seascape. “The ocean is running outshore, warms up, loses its oxygen, is assisting,” according to the oceanographer’s formula Françoise Gaill, Vice President of the Ocean and Climate Platform, who collaborated in the organization of the organization. Summit of Brest.
The average elevation of the seas level accelerates: it was 1.7 millimeters per year at the XX e century, before doubling the next century. Storms become more violent. Victims of intense heat waves, marine poles, twice as many since 1982, almost all corals may wither as they serve as an hatchery to many species and protect the coasts of strong swells.
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