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175 sentences in 53 speeches for ocean
Download CSVTonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 18 sentences
- We cannot keep negotiating climate, biodiversity, and the ocean in separate COPs when they are clearly an interconnected ecosystem requiring integrated and coherent solutions.
- We call on global processes to recognize the ocean climate nexus and address these interconnected challenges together.
- For Tonga, investing in the ocean and nature is foundational in achieving its development ambition.
- The financing and partnerships we build around ocean and nature-based solutions will help determine our future and sustain our people.
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 12 sentences
- I bring with me the voice of a nation of more than 80 islands, of many indigenous communities and languages, and a nation whose identity has been shaped by the ocean, by custom, by faith, by resilience, and above all, by commitment to peace.
- The effects reach our villages, our markets, our schools, our hospitals, our oceans, and our homes.
- Mr. President, the ocean is central to Vanuatu's identity, culture, food security, and prosperity.
- Climate change, damage to the ocean and loss of biodiversity are linked.
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 9 sentences
- I stand before this assembly for a people whose future depends on a healthy ocean and a stable climate, and the sovereign right to determine their own path.
- For us, sovereignty is lived in our ability to feed our people from healthy oceans, power our homes independently from distant fuel markets, and protect our shorelines from rising seas and chart our own path.
- We have called for ambition that matches science, demonstrated that ocean stewardship can protect while supporting livelihoods and insisted on a stronger voice for small island states in decisions that shape our future.
- Pacific leaders have charted a practical roadmap through the Unlocking Blue Pacific Prosperity, UBPP, launched at COP28 and reinforced by the Pacific leaders, ocean statement adopted in Palau, UBPP unites 22 Pacific countries and territories to mobilize accessible, catalytic, catalytic investment for 100% sustainable ocean management, robust food systems, and resilience, livelihoods.
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 9 sentences
- To value calls on member states to expedite implementation of the commitments of the third United Nation Ocean Conference and to build momentum towards the fourth conference in the Republic of Korea in two thousand and twenty-eight.
- Mr. President, the ocean is central to Tuvalu's identity.
- The ocean has sustained Tuvalu for generations and remains at the heart of our existence, our future, and our resilience.
- Tuvalu may have only 26 square kilometers of land, but we are custodians of some 750,000 square kilometers of ocean, which makes Tuvalu a large ocean state.
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 8 sentences
- Transnational criminal networks are using our ocean as a highway for illicit drugs, undermining our sovereignty and national security, destroying young lives and tearing at the fabric of our communities.
- As enshrined in the Ocean of Peace Declaration, our region must remain free of nuclear weapons and free from destabilizing external influence.
- In keeping with that vision, my government has proposed a treaty that would bind Pacific Island countries and like-minded partners to a firm, shared commitment to keep the Pacific an ocean of peace.
- Sir, the ocean is not simply a resource.
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 7 sentences
- Mr. President, Kiribati is an ocean nation.
- We are a big ocean sustainable state.
- Sustainable management is essential to our long-term developments, and we call for increased efforts and partnerships to have agreeable progress towards SDG 14, which is conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development.
- The 2026 Sustainable Development Goals reports reminds us that our oceans and fisheries continue to face mounting pressures from overfishing, illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, pollution, warming, and acidification.
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 7 sentences
- At the same time, we recognize the continuing and growing challenges of climate change, ocean degradation, pollution, and growing inequality.
- We urge the international community to enhance cooperation, share technology, and support capacity building to ensure that the ocean remains a zone of peace governed by international law.
- This is not a substitute for long-term decarbonization, but can slow near-term warming, protect vulnerability, vulnerable communities and oceans, and preserve critical time for those on the front lines of the climate crisis.
- Solar, wind, and ocean-based technologies can reduce dependence on external fuel markets, strengthen energy security, and lower emission in line with science.
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 6 sentences
- Our ocean carries the memory of decisions made elsewhere, but suffered by Pacific peoples.
- The Ocean of Peace Declaration expresses a regional vision grounded in sovereignty, international law, and rejection of coercion.
- But our ocean must not become a theater in which others settle their rivalries.
- Our borders are ocean.
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- And what inheritance are we leaving behind for our children if the forest disappears, our oceans become polluted, and our climate becomes increasingly unstable?
- We share the same ocean.
- development, energy, forest, oceans, minerals, and global economy.
- We are custodians of great tropical forests, extraordinary biodiversity, and vast ocean space.
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- Excellencies, the ocean defines who we are as Pacific people.
- Yet our ocean faces increasing pressures from pollution, biodiversity loss, over-exploitation, and the impacts of climate change.
- Coupled with unchecked exploitation of deep seabed mineral resources, our oceans face a crisis of limitless proportion.
- Without urgent action, small island states face a future without land and no usable ocean.
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- Just look at the oceans.
- A few years ago, everybody said it was impossible to craft agreements so as to protect marine areas, protect the oceans.
- Some also told us that we wouldn't be able to conserve two thirds of our oceans, the high seas.
- The Nice Treaty, the United Nations Ocean Conference, the third Oceans Conference, last year helped us to accelerate that work and the first Oceans COP will be held in a few months time in January.
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- As an island nation situated at the crossroads of the Indian Ocean, and as a country with a large number of migrant workers in West Asia, these developments have direct security, economic and social implications for us.
- from our early call for an Indian Ocean zone of peace to our leadership at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference.
- We remain committed to preserving the oceans as a shared space for peaceful and sustainable use and for international cooperation.
- Our nation's prosperity is closely linked to the Indian Ocean.
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- The oceans are the lifeblood of global trade.
- Our survival is inextricably linked to the health of the ocean.
- Whilst these tools offer immense opportunities for development and ocean management, They also risk widening the global divide and enabling new forms of warfare and cybercrime.
- Let us restore trust through deliberate action, by upholding the rule of international law unconditionally, by reforming our global governance institutions to reflect today's world, by delivering equitable climate and development finance, and by protecting our shared oceans and climate.
Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, Nauru is an ocean state.
- We are not merely guardians of the ocean, but rightful participants in its future.
- For Nauru, the ocean represents both opportunity and responsibility, never one without the other.
- Our sponsored entity, Nauru Ocean Resources, has contributed about one petabyte of data, more than one third of all Clarion Clipperton Zone data held in the authority's deep data.
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- The ocean, moreover, are far more than the highways of our trades.
- The freedom to use the ocean therefore comes with a responsibility to preserve it.
- It helped launch the Blue Leaders, a coalition of countries working to protect at least 30% of the ocean by 2030 and secure an ambitious ICS treaty.
- Beneath those same oceans run other vital routes.
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Ladies and gentlemen, there is one area where multilateral trust has recently produced tangible results, and it is dear to the heart of His Serene Highness Prince Albert II, and that is to say, the ocean.
- We now need to translate these commitments into acts to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030, to finally agree on an ambitious and binding agreement on plastics pollution, and exercise extreme caution with regards to deep seabed mining.
- The ocean is nobody's property.
- And what goes for the ocean also goes for the climate.
Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Confronted with rising seas on our most vulnerable shorelines, we completed the Yibai seawall and footpath last week, 1.8 kilometers of ocean-side protection, built with support from the World Bank, the Green Climate Fund, and our own resources.
- Pacific Island leadership and that of all small island developing states as we find every multilateral milestone for oceans and fisheries, and we will continue to do so.
- As an ocean people, the consequences of getting it wrong are not from distant impacts, but adjacent to our waters, particularly in the North Pacific, both within the International Seabed Authority and unilateral actions.
- Going on guesswork for global oceans is beyond dangerous.
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Our oceans must also move from promises to protection.
- Large ocean states need access to capacity building, marine technology, scientific knowledge, and financing, while benefits from marine genetic resources must be shared fairly.
- For island nations, the ocean is not the space between us and the world.
- Across climate action, sea level rise, and ocean governance, one reality remains: resilience has a cost.
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Eight decades replete with resolutions, declarations, and action on decolonization, development, new international order, the new constitution for the oceans, as well as climate and the environment, technology, human rights, international law, and peacekeeping.
- As a coastal state with an EEZ of 2.2 million square kilometres, that is more than 1,000 times our landmass, Mauritius is profoundly connected to the ocean.
- reaffirm our unwavering commitment to UNCLOS as the legal framework governing all activities in the oceans, including the seabed and subsoil beyond national jurisdiction.
- I am pleased to inform that Mauritius will, with the support of the European Union and the Commission de l'Ocean Indien, will host a ministerial conference on cybercrime and sea cable security in the Western Indian Ocean in the first quarter of 2027.
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- The droughts, the desertification, water scarcity, ocean acidification, and the rising sea levels.
- And at the United Nations, Cabo Verde co-facilitated negotiations on the political declaration of the third conference on the oceans and the declaration on sea level rise.
- Because a country made-up of islands, protecting the ocean is not just an environmental policy.
- We will take on this responsibility by working for the unity of small island states, the implementation of the Antigua and Barbuda agenda for fairer financing, for climate adaptation, and for ensuring that the oceans remain at the heart of the global agenda.
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- It was concluded under the presidency of Professor Tommy Koh of Singapore, who called it the Constitution for the Oceans.
- For over four decades, it has set out the legal framework for activities in all our oceans and seas.
- He has been a consistent voice for the Charter, for our climate and oceans, and for the rules that hold the global commons together.
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Biodiversity loss and pollution are impacting key natural resources in our oceans.
- We also call on you to safeguard the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the constitution for the oceans, which provides the framework within which all activities in the oceans and seas must be carried out.
- Compliance with these universally applicable rules is essential, not only for maintaining peace and security, but also for protecting prosperity and food security, given the ocean's vital role in supporting trade.
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 3 sentences
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Having the canal that unites two oceans, that transports goods from all countries of the world without any distinction, that is an icon of integration.
- In addition to the expansion of the services that we offer in terms of transporting hydrocarbons between the oceans, this is a center that has recently been entirely acquired by the Panamanian state.
Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Climate change and freedom of navigation share a common priority of our policy, the sea and ocean.
- Protecting the marine environment and its biodiversity, Combating ocean warming, addressing the threat of sea level rise, and ensuring universal freedom of navigation are essential priorities on the ocean agenda, which is an agenda we all have to pay attention to.
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Our geography gives us a unique perspective as a Pacific nation inhabiting an entire continent and connected to Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and Antarctica.
- We are investing in the multilateral system by elevating Pacific voices in shaping global decision making, working with them to advance their development needs and counter the transnational organised crime that is spreading across the beautiful Pacific Ocean that we share.
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 2 sentences
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Honduras · Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Philippines · · Day 6 · 1 sentence