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STORY: UN / OCEANS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TRT: 3.00
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 JUNE 2013, NEW YORK
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
1. Wide shot, press conference
2. Cutaway, journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Stuart Beck, Palau:
“The Oceans were not a part of the very important and very successful MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) and we want to make sure that Oceans are a very important part of the SDG’s (Sustainable Development Goals) Palau has done a good deal under President Remengesau to declare shark sanctuaries, to ban bottom trawling, to create some of the worlds first protected areas, but we realized, and I think all of us realize that one small country in the middle of the Pacific is not going to be able to determine the fate of the oceans which are so hard pressed.”
4. Cutaway, photographer
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghislaine Maxwell, Founder, TerraMar Project
Begins under cutaway of journalists
“What is lacking in this is a big movement around it and a big social presence and so what TerraMar is seeking to do along with our other friends in the sector is to create a social network around the Oceans with a global outreach and create a global citizenship for a global commons and for the Oceans and with that in place it then will be informed about the SDGs and on Ocean related issues and will then empower the representatives in the United Nations to take the hard decisions that they need to do to make new laws for sustainability of our Oceans and for our super important future.”
6. Cutaway, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Stuart Beck, Palau:
“There are going to be 193 votes at the General Assembly in 2015 to decide what are the Sustainable Development Goals. So our ultimate objective has got to be those 193. This is not a ‘slam dunk’, there are a lot of countries, it seems, who are not in favour of an Oceans SDG, they have their own priorities, they’re landlocked, they’re more concerned with MDG type issues for example. So those are the ultimate objects of our campaign. We need those votes.”
8. Cutaway, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghislaine Maxwell, Founder, TerraMar Project
“Part of the social media will be to bring awareness of this: why do we care about fish; why do we care about seabirds; what’s the importance of this and I think once the general public can understand what the processes are and why it is important, its not just a big blue place that you go and play on the beach, that it is possible then to create a movement around it and that will then empower politicians to make to take the incredibly difficult decisions that they need to make, but that are absolutely essential for the future of our planet.”
10. Cutaway, journalists
11. Wide shot, press conference ends
18 months ahead of the launch of the United Nations Sustainable development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations General Assembly Palau’s Ambassador Stuart Beck appealed to the General Assembly to create an SDG for the planet’s Oceans.
While explaining that the Oceans were not a part of the Millennium Development Goals, Beck said that “we want to make sure that Oceans are a very important part of the SDG’s (Sustainable Development Goals).”
He also said that while Palau had done a good deal to declare shark sanctuaries, ban bottom trawling, and to create some of the worlds first protected areas, “one small country in the middle of the Pacific is not going to be able to determine the fate of the oceans which are so hard pressed.”
Accompanying Palau’s Ambassador was Ghislaine Maxwell, Founder of the TerraMar Project which seeks to promote awareness, responsibility and transparency of the high seas. She said that what was lacking in the movement was “a big” social presence.
She also explained that what TerraMar was seeking to do along with our other partners was to create a social network around the Oceans with a global outreach
She said that once that structure was in place it would then empower United Nations representatives “to take the hard decisions that they need to do to make new laws for sustainability of our Oceans and for our super important future.”
Beck stressed that for this to happen there was the need for the 193 votes at the General Assembly in 2015 when the Sustainable Development Goals would be determined.
He said, “so our ultimate objective has got to be those 193. This is not a ‘slam dunk’, there are a lot of countries, it seems, who are not in favour of an Oceans SDG, they have their own priorities, they’re landlocked, they’re more concerned with MDG type issues for example. So those are the ultimate objects of our campaign. We need those votes.”
Maxwell also stressed that the role of the social media would be to bring awareness of the importance of Oceans.
She said that “once the general public can understand what the processes are and why it is important, its not just a big blue place that you go and play on the beach, that it is possible then to create a movement around it and that will then empower politicians to make to take the incredibly difficult decisions that they need to make, but that are absolutely essential for the future of our planet.”
