New York, 19 October — UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of 15 eminent scientists to draft the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report.
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Opening remarks by Ambassador Peter Thomson, UNSG’s Special Envoy for the Ocean Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
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My hometown in the South Pacific is surrounded on three sides by a coral barrier reef. That reef is our true interface with the Ocean and the protection it provides, along with its wide navigable passage, is the very reason our town exists in the first place.
On 30 September, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, Ambassador Peter Thomson, in coordination with the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), organized a High-Level Side-Event “Biodiversity: The Ocean’s Ro