World Oceans Day 2023 (8 June) - United Nations Secretary-General

Video Message by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on World Oceans Day 2023.

The ocean is the foundation of life.

It supplies the air we breathe and food we eat.

It regulates our climate and weather.

The ocean is our planet’s greatest reservoir of biodiversity.

Its resources sustain communities, prosperity and human health around the world.

Humanity counts on the ocean.

But can the ocean count on us?

We should be the ocean’s best friend.

But right now, humanity is its worst enemy.

Human-induced climate change is heating our planet, disrupting weather patterns and ocean currents, and altering marine ecosystems and the species living there.

Marine biodiversity is under attack from overfishing, over-exploitation and ocean acidification.

Over one-third of fish stocks are being harvested at unsustainable levels.

And we are polluting our coastal waters with chemicals, plastics and human waste.

But this year’s World Oceans Day reminds us that the tides are changing.



Last year, we adopted an ambitious global target to conserve and manage 30 per cent of land and marine and coastal areas by 2030, as well as a landmark agreement on fisheries subsidies.

At the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, the world agreed to push for more positive ocean action.

A global, legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution is under negotiation.

And in March, countries agreed to the historic High Seas Treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction.

Realizing the great promise of these initiatives requires collective commitment.

Sustainable Development Goal 14 — to conserve and sustainably use the ocean’s resources — hangs in the balance.

This World Oceans Day, let’s keep pushing for action.

Today and every day, let’s put the ocean first.

[MaybeYoureRight-]

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It is time for a change -- and we need young people to drive that change, with their passion, solutions, and action!

Thank you 😅

[MaybeYoureRight-]

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Everything is connected. Especially in the way we treat nature. Why are we doing all this? For sustainability on this planet for our kind and for intergenerational justice – for those who come after us!

Thank you 😅

[kareemkalisari]

Each of us has a role to play in protecting our planet 🌏🌍

[tka-tpa-prapatankalisari]

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“Each time one of us touches the soil of this land, we feel a sense of personal renewal. The national mood changes as the seasons change. We are moved by a sense of joy and exhilaration when the grass turns green and the flowers bloom.”
~Nelson Mandela
Inauguration as President of South Africa, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa, 10 May 1994

[MaybeYoureRight-]

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It’s time to jump-start the renewable energy transition before it’s too late!

Thank you 😅

[petradicostanzo]

Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec vous je mettrai mon potentiel et mon travail avec mon équipe face au grand défi du changement climatique il s'agit d'une nouvelle ère qui s'annonce merci ❤

[India]

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
– Mahatma Gandhi 🇮🇳

[bridgetsanders]

Say NO to deep seabed mining for precious metals.

[India]

“True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi 🇮🇳

[Travel-Rizma]

“The Hajj is (to be performed in) the months that are well-known. So whoever undertakes Hajj in them, there should be no obscenity, no sin, no quarrel in the Hajj. Whatever good you do, Allah will know it. Take provisions along, for the merit of (having) provision is to abstain (from begging), and fear Me, O men of understanding!”
*—📖The Holy Quran, * surah: Al-Baqara, chapter2, verse197

_Mufti Taqi Usmani✍🏻_

[ninirema]

हजुरहरु सबैलाई धेरै नमस्कार र शुभकामना छ ।🙏 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎 🍎

[tka-tpa-prapatankalisari]

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"I don't call it climate change. It's change for those who are not affected by the crisis. For us, it's a crisis."
~Nelson Mandela

[India]

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
— Mahatma Gandhi 🇮🇳

[luispadrao]

Parabéns pelo trabalho "O suposto fato de que se todos pudessem se comunicar no mesmo idioma geraria a diminuição de conflitos e ódio entre as nações é algo discutível." que Deus/Ala abençoe

[MaybeYoureRight-]

_Our world is far too important_
_and the time to ACT is NOW ✍🏾_
😅

[Kismet-Nights]

سعدت بالحديث مع أخي سمو الشيخ محمد بن زايد آل نهيان، وتهنئة سموه بفوز دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة باستضافة قمة المناخ COP28.
الإمارات جزء عزيز من القلب العربي والإسلامي، يسعد كل عربي بنجاحاته وتمثيله المشرف لوطننا العربي في المحافل الدولية.

*— Dr Ahmed Al-Tayeb 🎓*
The Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar🎓
(November 22, 2021)

[luispadrao]

Eu trabalho a muitos anos e não consigo aproveitar nada ou seja não consigo usufruir de nada parece que tudo que ganho some de minhas mãos isso acontece com vocês e desagradável. Deus/Ala abençoe

[ninirema]

Very super dear all great thanks for sweet good dreams 🙏 🍎

[tka-tpa-prapatankalisari]

👩🏼‍🎓🇺🇳
"One of the most important lessons I learnt in my life of struggle for freedom and peace is that in any conflict there comes a point when neither side can claim to be right and the other wrong, no matter how much that might have been the case at the start of a conflict."
~Nelson Mandela
during a video message for the signing of the Geneva Accord, December 2003

[Travel-Rizma]

“Complete the pilgrimages, major and minor, for the sake of God. If you are prevented [from doing so], then [send] whatever offering for sacrifice you can afford, and do not shave your headsuntil the offering has reached the place of sacrifice. If any of you is ill, or has an ailment of the scalp, he should compensate by fasting, or feeding the poor, or offering sacrifice. When you are in safety, anyone wishing to take a break between the minor pilgrimage and the major one must make whatever offering he can afford. If he lacks the means, he should fast for three days during the pilgrimage, and seven days on his return, making ten days in all. This applies to those whose household is not near the Sacred Mosque. Always be mindful of God, and be aware that He is stern in His retribution.”
*—📖The Holy Quran, * surah: Al-Baqara, chapter2, verse196

_Abdul Haleem✍🏻_