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• Provided that we are able to preserve them. • It is the concern of businesses which need to
• Provided that we are able to join forces to do so. make their capacity for innovation available for
Provided that we are able to create a new the benefit of a responsible marine economy,
alliance between humanity and the sea. capable of generating growth without depleting
• This alliance is the concern of each one of us. the seas.
• It is the concern of international organisations, • It is especially the concern of all the players
which need to address the various issues involved in the sea, who need to understand
which determine the future of the oceans, in that their future cannot be assured by short
the wake of SDG 14 announced by the UN: the term calculations but involves the sustainable
development of marine protected areas, the management of the seas and their resources.
protection of the High Seas and its biodiversity • Finally, it is the concern of citizens and
and the implementation of binding international consumers who need to take action in their
standards. everyday lives and exercise increasing caution,
• It is the concern of States, which need to be increasingly demanding, because we are
protect the seas for which they are responsible all, at our own level and with our own means,
more effectively, and counter more efficiently responsible for this common heritage.
the damage that our development paradigm
inflicts on them, through for example water It is together, through dialogue and cooperation
pollution and global warming. that we will succeed in creating a new alliance
• It is the concern of scientific institutions which between humanity and the ocean, alone capable
need to continue to explore these little-known of guaranteeing our future and that of Planet
areas of the Planet which our ignorance often Earth.
prevents us from protecting effectively.
• It is the concern of NGOs which need to
coordinate their efforts, for the sake of the Monaco, April 3 2017
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oceans, their preservation and the sound
development of the coastal populations.

H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco

M Ségolène Royal M. Gian Luca Galletti
me
French Minister of the Environment, Italian Minister of the Environment and
Energy and Marine Affairs, responsible the Protection of the Territory and the Sea
for International Climate Relations