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UN / SDG OCEAN RACE SUMMIT

Addressing the Ocean Race Summit, Marine biologist Sylvia Earle, said "we are just beginning to recognize that we are ocean creatures,” adding “take away the ocean - we can't survive, neither can the whales or coral reefs, or anything else.” UNIFEED / FILE
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STORY: UN / SDG OCEAN RACE SUMMIT
TRT: 02:22
SOURCE: UNIFEED / FILE
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 18 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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1. Zoom out, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNBITE (English) Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer, Founder, Blue Mission:
“We are just beginning to recognize that we are ocean creatures - take away the ocean - we can't survive, neither can the whales or coral reefs, or anything else. All living things need the ocean. So people ask me ‘what is your favorite sea creature’ expecting me to say something like a dolphin or a shark, or a seahorse? It's a human.”
4. Wide shot, meeting room
5. SOUNBITE (Portuguese) Ulisses Correia e Silva, Prime Minister, Cabo Verde:
“The world is experiencing a serious crisis caused by climate change, the accelerated loss of biodiversity and ocean pollution. The consequences are dramatic for humanity.”
6. Wide shot, meeting room
7. SOUNBITE (English) Ulrike Modéer, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy, UN Development Programme (UNDP):
“We really need to extend of course the scale of marine protected areas to make the agreements reality. And we need to make to see that fisheries can heal. We need to improve the management and the control of large-scale fisheries and we must mitigate the destructive land based practices of pollution over extraction and habitat destruction and of course the relation to the climate crisis that we're facing.”
8. Wide shot, meeting room
9. SOUNBITE (English) Ulrike Modéer, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy, UN Development Programme (UNDP):
“We are now aiming to work in 100 coastal countries, including of course, many of them being small developing states to achieve and support the maximum potential of their economies through a sustainable low emission and climate resilient ocean’s use.”
10. Wide shot, meeting room

FILE – 21 JANUARY 2023, MINDELO, CABO VERDE

11. Various shots, UN Secretary-General António Guterres visiting Ocean Live Park, at the arrival of the Ocean Race

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Addressing the Ocean Race Summit today (18 Sep) in New York, Marine biologist Sylvia Earle, said "we are just beginning to recognize that we are ocean creatures,” adding “take away the ocean - we can't survive, neither can the whales or coral reefs, or anything else.”

She continued, “all living things need the ocean. So people ask me ‘what is your favorite sea creature’ expecting me to say something like a dolphin or a shark, or a seahorse? It's a human.”

The Ocean Race Summit was organized by the Ocean Race in collaboration with UNDP, the Government of Cabo Verde, IUCN and Earth Law Center.

The Summit has gathered together over 150 experts, policymakers, business leaders, lawyers, Indigenous Peoples, scientists, NGOs, and other stakeholders to develop principles on ocean rights that could form the basis of a potential Universal Declaration of Ocean Rights.

Ulisses Correia e Silva, Prime Minister of Cabo Verde, also addressed the participants. He said, “the world is experiencing a serious crisis caused by climate change, the accelerated loss of biodiversity and ocean pollution. The consequences are dramatic for humanity.”

For her part, Ulrike Modéer, Assistant Secretary-General from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), said that “we really need to extend of course the scale of marine protected areas to make the agreements reality.”

She continued, “we need to improve the management and the control of large-scale fisheries and we must mitigate the destructive land based practices of pollution over extraction and habitat destruction and of course the relation to the climate crisis that we're facing.”

According to her, UNDP is “aiming to work in 100 coastal countries, including of course, many of them being small developing states to achieve and support the maximum potential of their economies through a sustainable low emission and climate resilient ocean’s use.”

The Ocean Race Summits are a key part of The Ocean Race’s multi-award winning ‘Racing with Purpose’ sustainability programme, which brings together a range of tangible ways that the event can have a positive impact on the marine environment.

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