The European Parliament, meeting in Brussels on Thursday 1 June, adopted a resolution setting out its expectations of the forthcoming High-Level United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 (UN Ocean Conference) which will take place in New York from 5 to 9 June 2017.
Parliament hopes that the conference will “focus attention on the need to act globally to reduce the adverse impact of human activities on the oceans”.
It notes that despite the...