At long last, on March 4, nations around the world have agreed to a #HighSeasTreaty to protect marine biodiversity and provide oversight of international waters.

Take a look at the journey towards an international legally binding instrument on marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction #BBNJ: http://bit.ly/3YrheaT

Congrats to the @HighSeasAlliance and all involved!

Next steps: Formal adoption & ratification! The journey continues!

#ABNJ #IGC5

RT @FriendsofOcean: "The ship has reached the shore." Conference president Rena Lee on conclusion of #BBNJ #IGC5 & the agreement of a global, binding #HighSeasTreaty to protect our #ocean. Thanks for your tenacious #leadership in bringing this deal to a close. 🌊♀️🙌 #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2023

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/LinneaEngstrom/status/1633456100317044739

RT @IUCN
IUCN Statement on the #HighSeas Treaty ⬇️
https://bit.ly/3muRDjO

#BBNJ #IGC5

This is great news for our planet!
RT @ZacGoldsmith: This really is a historic moment. The Ocean covers two-thirds of the planet, provides half the oxygen we breath, absorbs vast amounts of CO2 & provides food for billions.
This Treaty will mean much greater protection.
#BBNJ #IGC5 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64815782

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vickyford/status/1632357859391418370

RT @BardemAntarctic: Dear #IGC5 Delegates,

You have 2 days left to agree a historic treaty to protect our global oceans.

Billions of people around the world are watching and waiting.

Will you do the right thing?

#ProtectTheOceans #BBNJ #OneOceanOnePlanet

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CathChabaud/status/1631362258797223937

The ocean can’t wait any longer! Bring the treaty over the finishing line! #saveourocean #biodiversity #bbnj
RT @FriendsofOcean: World leaders meeting in New York now must agree a robust, equitable, binding, global #HighSeasTreaty to ensure the health & sustainable use of the 2/3 of our #ocean that lies beyond national jurisdiction. 🌊 https://www.weforum.org/friends-of-ocean-action/renewing-calls-for-ocean-action-in-2023 🌊 #BBNJ #IGC5 #OceanAction #BlueThread #SDG14+

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IsabellaLovin/status/1629073213421412354

RT @IISD_ENB
Optimism pervaded as the #BBNJ #IGC5.2 meeting opened, but stumbling blocks soon emerged as delegates began hammering out the nitty-gritty details of a new #HighSeasTreaty

Read the highlights ➡️ https://enb.iisd.org/marine-biodiversity-beyond-national-jurisdiction-bbnj-igc5-resumed-20Feb2023

#Biodiversity #HighSeas

RT @South_Centre
Today kicks off resumed fifth session of the #HighSeas Treaty #IGC5. Priorities for developing countries include preserving marine diversity & fair benefit sharing from use of marine genetic material & information, capacity building, scientific cooperation, & technology transfer.

🙏 Thank you to everyone who joined the #OceanInTheRoom campaign at #COP15!

Keep showing your support for the ocean in important decision making fora in 2023, such #IGC5 and #ISA27.

#NatureCOP15 #ForNature #BlueNature #30x30 #OneOceanOnePlanet #DefendTheDeep #HighSeasTreaty

Check out the #OceanInTheRoom campaign to ensure that the ocean 🌊 is always present in important decision-making fora. Help unify the ocean presence at @UNBiodiversity@twitter.com @CBD_COP15@twitter.com, @IMPAC5Canada@twitter.com, #IGC5 bis and beyond. @SeaBlueCanada@twitter.com https://www.oceanprotect.org/2022/12/05/be-the-ocean-in-the-room-at-cop15/ #NatureCOP15
📷@kaaatso@twitter.com

#introduction, I research and write on international law, especially US approaches to and practice in international law, US foreign policy, and the law of the sea. Here's a piece I wrote recently about the failure to agree a #HighSeasTreaty at #IGC5 of #BBNJ. An old story of US egoism and legal anti-formalism. Like others, I argue a US left Internationalism should challenge monopolies over global commons. https://opiniojuris.org/2022/09/27/egoism-on-the-high-seas/

I’m calling on you @NanaiaMahuta as New Zealand’s foreign affairs minister to back the strongest possible #GlobalOceansTreaty at the UN in August that protects the ocean and doesn’t leave ocean protection to fishing organisations. #ProtectTheOceans #IGC5 https://greenpeace.nz/dyvxqc

RT @UNEP: Government representatives are meeting at @un Headquarters in New York to negotiate a new treaty to protect marine biodiversity & bolster action #ForNature. #IGC5 #BBNJ
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/08/1124702

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_ENV/status/1559559001033039875

RT @Anne_Stambach: TRIBUNE #NUPES. Essentielle mais non-protégée, la haute mer fait actuellement l'objet de discussions à l'ONU en vue de l'adoption d'un traité.
La France doit peser de tout son poids pour qu’il soit à la hauteur des enjeux.
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2022/08/13/pour-proteger-la-haute-mer-l-heure-n-est-plus-aux-demi-mesures_6137921_3232.html
#IGC5 #HighSeas
@HerveBerville

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/mbompard/status/1559298081727954947

RT @AvecMichelSala: Comme 50 parlementaires de la #Nupes j'ai signé cette tribune dans laquelle nous demandons au gouvernement de défendre un traité ambitieux pour protéger les océans et la haute mer, réservoirs de biodiversité indispensables. 👇
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2022/08/13/pour-proteger-la-haute-mer-l-heure-n-est-plus-aux-demi-mesures_6137921_3232.html #IGC5 #highseas

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/mbompard/status/1558509102480953344

RT @ejfoundation: August is an important month for our ocean 🌊

On Monday, UN negotiations on an agreement to protect biodiversity on the high seas will start – this is a historic opportunity to protect international waters for present and future generations. #IGC5 #BBNJ (1/6) 🧵

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/spietikainen/status/1557984981644976128

RT @nickofnz@twitter.com

Ocean protection is everything, @NanaiaMahuta@twitter.com. I urge you to back the strongest possible #GlobalOceansTreaty in New York next month and put ocean protection in the right hands. #ProtectTheOceans #IGC5 https://greenpeace.nz/dyvxqc

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nickofnz/status/1549594476510777344

RT @nickofnz@twitter.com

Ocean protection is everything, @NanaiaMahuta@twitter.com. I urge you to back the strongest possible #GlobalOceansTreaty in New York next month and put ocean protection in the right hands. #ProtectTheOceans #IGC5 https://greenpeace.nz/dyvxqc

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nickofnz/status/1549594476510777344

RT @LDAC_eu: #IGC5 #BBNJ a “once in a generation opportunity” for a treaty for #biodiversity of the #highseas. Four key elements: 🌊 #MPAs 30:30 goal #CBD 🌊 Sound #EIA 🌊 Fair & equitable access 2 sustainable use of #marine genetic resources; 🌊Adequate funding capacity building + technology

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IsabellaLovin/status/1542615182589018113