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The World Ocean Council (WOC) is a global, cross-sectoral ocean industry leadership alliance committed to “Corporate Ocean Responsibility”, developed by and for the private sector,
with a unique and multi-sectoral approach to address cross-cutting issues affecting ocean sustainable development, science and stewardship of the seas.
The WOC believes that responsible and coordinated Ocean Business Community efforts are essential to a healthy and productive global ocean and its sustainable use,
development and stewardship by a responsible Ocean Business Community. The WOC Network includes 35,000+ ocean industry stakeholders around the world.
The WOC is recognized or accredited by numerous U.N. agencies and other international organizations as the credible, global leadership body on ocean business and sustainability.
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The “OCEAN TITANS” series anchors analysis and insight from United Nations leading representatives, policy makers, industry and academic leaders charting a new course for the “Decade of Ocean Action” acceleration in saving our oceans with innovative, legislative and strategic solutions. The series will showcase Ocean science,
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Ocean Sustainability
The world’s oceans are suffocating form a lack of oxygen caused by global warming and human pollution from sewage and industrial waste, and we are running out of time to fix the problem, experts and diplomats warned on Wednesday.
At a preparatory meeting in Brasilia for the United Nations Ocean Conference in June, they stressed that saving the oceans requires solving drinking water and sanitation needs on land to stop uncontrolled dumping in the sea.
“The life of one depends on the health of the other,” said Catarina de Albuquerque, head of Sanitation and Water for All, a U.N.-hosted partnership dedicated to achieving availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation.
Rising water temperatures are accelerating the loss of oxygen that sustains marine life, she warned.
Besides global warning, increasing loads of nutrients from agriculture, sewage and industrial waste, including pollution from fossil fuel power generation, are speeding up the reduction of oxygen in coastal areas that become “dead zones” for fish.
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