Director with @highseasallianc and former Program Director with @Our_Fish. Working for the ocean and everything that depends on it. Live in lutrawita/Tasmania.
📢 St. Lucia🇱🇨 has ratified the High Seas Treaty 🎉
Now 1⃣5⃣ Treaty champions have taken the lead in the #RaceForRatification!
Their commitment to transforming the #BBNJ Agreement into action brings us 45 ratifications closer to entry into force by #UNOC3.
In our regional 🇮🇳 workshop, 11 Southeast Asia countries representatives identified the priority support needed to facilitate the signing & ratification of the #BBNJ Agreement.
We are looking forward to strengthening these efforts in the upcoming national consultations!
💬 “We welcome the progress made in the global #RaceForRatification of the #HighSeasTreaty over the past year. The Treaty has given hope to citizens around the world that leaders will act." - @Bec_Hubbard
⏳ We need to accelerate before #UNOC3. https://t.co/OQ9VPiHA8s
🙌 We welcome #UNGA's adoption of a timeline and modalities for the #BBNJ PrepCom 2-week meetings in April and August 2025 & 2026.
Grateful for Belize🇧🇿 and Australia🇦🇺 leadership in laying the ground work for the Treaty entry into force before #UNOC3.
https://t.co/dJke5k46Y8
The #HighSeasTreaty may be our best bet to protect #BBNJ.
🌊 It would serve as a critical foundation to establishing a legal framework for #MPAs, so we can achieve 30% of total ocean protection by 2030 as one global ocean community.
#RaceForRatification#30x30@Bec_Hubbard
Another inspiring gathering of #SIDS leaders giving clear examples of how we can bring traditional knowledge into the centre of our approach to understanding, protecting & sustaining high seas life into the future!
Thank you 🙏🌊💪💙
For #SIDS to be resilient & sustainable, politicians, scientists, and holders of local and indigenous knowledge must collaborate. At our #SIDS4 side event today, we’re talking about the importance of acknowledging the crucial contribution from #IPLCs in the #RaceForRatification.
Why is Indigenous knowledge essential to the #BBNJ Treaty and how can they influence policy decision-making?
On Day 2 at #SIDS4, @GOMaluku shared five compelling reasons for including #IndigenousPeople wisdom in global treaties like the #HighSeasTreaty:
https://t.co/UqVyTEkySV
So heartening to be surrounded by the strength, leadership and passion of #SIDS demonstrating action to ratify the #HighSeasTreaty to ensure it can protect our global ocean & all of us that depend on it. 🙌🌊💙
We encourage other nations from the global north to move as swiftly!
Today at #SIDS4, both Mauritius and Federated States of Micronesia announced their intention to deposit the instrument to ratify the #HighSeasTreaty at the @UN. Well done to 🇲🇺 🇫🇲👏! We look forward to the ratification becoming official next week.
#RaceForRatification#BBNJ
🧵Today on the last day of #SIDS4 we hosted an event to celebrate #SIDS leadership in the #RaceForRatification and collectively commit to a symbolic declaration to ensure the #HighSeasTreaty enters into force as soon as possible.
A healthy ocean is crucial to our survival, therefore ocean protection is imperative. 🌊 Swift ratification and implementation of the #BBNJ Treaty will be key, as was highlighted by our high level panel discussion with sailor Boris Herrmann in New York last night. #OceanDecade
📜🌊Le PJL autorisant la ratification du traité sur la protection de la biodiversité en haute mer #BBNJ a été adopté à l’unanimité cette semaine par la Commission des affaires étrangères @AN_AfEtr.
Je défendrai la ratification du #BBNJ, le 29 mai en hémicycle !
Are you at #SIDS4? Come and join us for 2️⃣ side-events!
🗓️ Starting from tomorrow, don't miss two important panels about the #BBNJ Treaty ratification & implementation and partnerships among #IndigenousPeople, scientists and policy-makers.
29th May 4-5.30 PM
30th May 12-1.30 PM
It's day 2 of #SIDS4!
Have you spotted the giant tentacle yet? the 8 meter inflatable tentacle represents our campaign mascot, affectionately known as Octavia. Come visit us right now in the cultural zone! 🐙
@SIDS4AB#RaceForRatification#HighSeasTreaty
Octavia's 8m-high tentacle also made an appearance today at #SIDS4, coming to raise awareness on the importance of a swift ratification and implementation of the #HighSeasTreaty. Keep an eye out for the tentacle in the next few days! 🐙
#RaceForRatification@LenekaRhoden
Our team has made it to Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬for #SIDS4! Today we kicked off with a session alongside #CARICOM civil society organizations to dive into the vital role they can play in the ratification and implementation of the #HighSeasTreaty.
#RaceForRatification#BBNJ#SIDS
📌 If you are at #SIDS4 next week, join us for 2️⃣ side-events!
We will be part of the panels discussing the #BBNJ Treaty ratification & implementation for #SIDS and building bridges among #IndigenousPeople, scientists and policy-makers.
@HighSeasAllianc@tors10th 2) @HighSeasAllianc Briefing for the 24-26 June organizational meeting of the #BBNJ#HighSeasTreaty Preparatory Commission (PrepCom). We urge States to be ambitious when agreeing the future PrepCom process & program of work.
Link: https://t.co/0dRHOn4o1H
Not one but two new @HighSeasAllianc ' briefings out today:
1) A deep dive into the financial mechanism of #BBNJ#HighSeasTreaty by @tors10th: how will it work, how does it connect to other parts, what are next steps to operationalize it?
Link: https://t.co/Bo4SbAgQbV [1/2]