Speakers emphasized the urgency of expanding protected coastal and marine areas - one of the targets of Goal 14 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - as well as tackling the problem of ocean acidification during partnership dialogues on the second day of the United Nations Ocean Conference. Tommy Remengesau, President of Palau and co-chair of a morning discussion on the theme 'Managing, protecting, conserving and restoring marine and coastal ecosystems', said 'we should increase our ambition' and protect at least 30 per cent of coastal and marine areas by 2030 - compared with the 10 per cent set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. He said that for his Pacific island country,...
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