GS II
Context:
👉2nd UNOC ended with Lisbon Declaration titled ‘Our Ocean, Our Future: call for action’. It was co-hosted by Kenya and Portugal in Lisbon
👉 1st UNOC was in UN HQ (New York) in 2017
🔸Lisbon Declaration
👉Protecting at least 30% of national maritime zones by 2030
👉Achieving carbon neutrality by 2040
👉Allocating funds to research on ocean acidification, climate resilience and surveillance
👉 Scale-up Science-based and innovative actions to address ocean emergency
👉Support implementation of SDG14 (life below water) by empowering women and girls- recognising their participation is crucial to building a sustainable ocean-based economy
👉Protect biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, which lie outside the 200-mile (322-kilometre) exclusive economic zones of countries.
🔸• India:
👉Will take up the Coastal clean sea campaign (‘Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar’.)
👉◦Ban on single-use plastics
