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Prime Minister Gaston Browne has told the UN General Assembly that small island states must be recognized as “custodians of the ocean,” and called for urgent global action to protect marine resources, combat pollution, and expand blue-economy opportunities.
“For islands like mine, the ocean is not scenery—it is sustenance, it is survival, it is our future,” the Prime Minister said.
“Yet reefs bleach, mangroves vanish, plastics choke our coasts, and illegal fishing robs our people of their livelihoods.”
The Prime Minister urged decisive action in four areas to included scaling up reinforcement and support for SIDS to secure maritime boundaries to prevent illegal, unreported and unregulated IUU fishing.
To address the plastics and pollution issue, the Prime Minister called for the backing of a robust global plastics treaty to end the scourge that destroys reefs and coastlines.
The country’s leader also called for the expansion of financing for mangroves, seagrass, and coastal ecosystems that sequester carbon and protect shorelines.
In addition, he called for the provision of satellite monitoring and data-sharing as standard support for SIDS to safeguard their vast Exclusive Economic Zones.
Prime Minister Browne also issued a clear warning on seabed mining stating that: “Until independent science proves no serious harm, we support a moratorium on seabed mining.
No nation should mortgage the ocean floor for short-term profit. The ocean is our lifeline—its destruction would be irreversible.”
He invited international partners to strengthen cooperation on ocean stewardship, blending conservation with sustainable economic growth for island communities.
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This man is sounding more and more every day like a sales man rather than a PM.
Stop peddling that foolish hoax about ” climate Justice”, it’s just a sales pitch for those who believe that man is really in control of the environment. We are not.
Invest in people, that’s our true asset…the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness there of, so let the earth be, for it is not ours.
Go look after your people Gatson, they are perishing as we speak..be concern of the many sufferings that has crippled Antigua, that’s what you need to focus on as a elected leader.
And trump is right that climate change is a hoax too, because a cow fart is said to be dangerous by these hoax scientists, all because they are selective, they can’t say anything about the military industrial complex producing all these bombs that are used by these first world country to expell gas into the atmosphere daily, without any consideration for the consequences to our environment.
Now they infantilized our Caribbean politicians, they also monetized the environment to corrupt politicians to turn a blind eye and to mangrove destruction, the government of the develop world are paying our politicians directly to allow the destruction of mangrove to facilitate golf course for a few white elites.