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SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE FOR WORLD OCEANS DAY

New York, 8 June 2021

This year’s observance of World Oceans Day falls as the world wrestles with the COVID-19 pandemic, a climate crisis and humankind’s continuing assault on oceans, seas and marine resources.

The recently issued Second World Ocean Assessment confirmed that many of the benefits that the global ocean provides to humankind are being undermined by our own actions....