[iStockphoto]The United Nations member states unanimously adopted the Lisbon Declaration on sustainable use of oceans, seas, and marine resources. Former President Uhuru Kenyatta was elected president of the 2022 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 on ocean conservation. “We dump eight million tonnes of plastics and contaminate at least 700 million species of marine life,” said President Kenyatta. Environment PS Chris Kiptoo said most plastics in oceans originate from land through rivers to the sea. President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebello de Sousa, said politicians often come and go yet oceans stay and “they are millions of years old and will be there provided we take care of them and stop killing them.”

Source: Standard Digital October 03, 2022 00:30 UTC