The world must harness "clear, transformative and actionable solutions" to address the ocean crisis, the president of the UN General Assembly said on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) as he opened a meeting to generate momentum toward the 2022 UN Ocean Conference, when public health safety measures allow. "Simply speaking, our relationship with our planet's ocean must change," Volkan Bozkir told a high-level thematic debate on the ocean and Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG14): Life Below Water. Against the backdrop that human activities have threatened to undo the delicate balance of this ecosystem that supports nutritional, economic and social value to billions the world over, he upheld that there is "simply no scenario" wherein we live on a planet without an ocean.

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