Thread by @MarieMRouyer

Coming from @cefemontpellier/@umontpellier to take part in the 🌊 #OneOceanSummit 🌊 in #Brest was an incredible opportunity.
Thanks to the organizing team at @UBO_UnivBrest.
Some key takeaways from the summit in a 🧵.
@Inspire4Nature

Scientific experts, industry leaders, conservation organisations, youth, some political figures, and poets all call on 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 to protect the ocean.

Ocean governance
Multiple calls to get a #BBNJ treaty in 2022.
Need to:
1)overcome fragmented governance in the High Seas
2)Ensure equitable-access to resources.
3)Recognize the @OceanAsCommon

Ocean governance (2/2) should:
1)Be based on scientific evidence ➡️ call for an International Platform on Ocean Change
2)Include civil society & listen to coastal communities
3)Strengthen the role of navies: collaboration & better enforcement
@ocean_climate @MarineNationale

Ocean protection 1/4
1)Heard a lot about 30% target but little about strong protection within those sites, when that’s the most critical part of having effective #MPAs (well-reminded by @JoachimClaudet).

@RemiParmentier thoughts coincided with #OOSUniversity’s call for action:
1)Internationally agree on a definition of protection, based on science
2)Manage sustainably 100% of the ocean (not mentioned by political leaders!)
3)Make marine protection the norm (not the exception)

We welcome calls for an international treaty on plastic pollution, to be discussed at #UNEA5 @UNEP

Ocean protection 4/4
Emanuel Macron announced funds to keep exploring the deep sea. An ambiguous position when France did not vote in favor of a moratorium on deep seabed mining (81 other governments did...) at the @IUCN congress in September.

𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧
1⃣ Polar ocean = main buffer against climate change; incredibly unknown & vulnerable.
2⃣ CCAMLR’s chair @JakobGranit announced wanting to start Marine Spatial Plans in Antarctica to help stalling of negotiations over Antarctic MPAs.

𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬
@ASoudanNonault (Republic of Congo) reminded all that there is a lot talking but very little acting.
French Polynesia (@MainaSage, @Edouradfritz) & Pacific island states' voices were heard: a vision where the land, sea & high seas are a whole. Let’s learn from them.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝
1)More collaboration between countries & build capacity among partners.
2)Repeated call to head of states to make their ocean data open and freely accessible!

𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
1)Several companies/banks/investors starting to join the movement, blue finance is on the rise.
2)Unfortunately, we were not given a chance to ask questions during the workshop...

𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬
1) Several companies calling head of states for legally-binding tools to prevent further pollution and unfair competition.
2) Welcomed commitments from the shipping industry.

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬
1) @EmmanuelMacron called on strengthening the dialog between scientists and decision-makers. The next generation is already here! #OOSUniversity
2) Erik Orsenna: if no actions follow the words, this summit would have been “a threat, a waste”. #Weknowenough

Merci à @radioubrest & @Oceanopolis_ pour avoir rendu l’évènement un peu plus accessible au reste de la société et de nous avoir inviter à participer.

Full Brest commitments : elysee.fr/admin/upload/d…