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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Message de la Directrice générale de l’UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, à l’occasion de la Journée mondiale de
<span style="color:black">l’océan, <i>Nettoyons nos océans</i>, </span> le <span style="color:black">
8 juin</span> 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">L'Océan abrite la majorité des espèces vivant sur notre planète. Il assure plus de 60 % des « services écosystémiques » qui nous permettent de vivre, à commencer
par la production de la majeure partie de notre oxygène et la régulation du climat : au cours du dernier demi-siècle, l’Océan a ainsi absorbé 93 % de l’excès de chaleur lié à l’augmentation de l’effet de serre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">L’Océan est la condition de possibilité de la vie sur Terre. Mais la surexploitation de ses ressources, la pollution et l’absorption croissante de CO<sub>2</sub>
le mettent en danger. Réchauffement, acidification, zones mortes, efflorescences algues nuisibles et dégradation des écosystèmes sont autant de phénomènes qui témoignent des conséquences des activités humaines sur l’Océan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">Cette année, la découverte d’une nouvelle « zone morte » dans le golfe d’Oman, plus grande que l'Écosse et qui continue à s'étendre, a mis en évidence le phénomène
de ces pans d’Océan dont le taux d’oxygène dramatiquement bas asphyxie la vie marine. Ce fléau s’ajoute à la pêche excessive et à la pollution, notamment celle causée par les déchets plastiques, déversés dans l’Océan au rythme d’un camion poubelle par minute
et qui s’acheminent dans notre réseau alimentaire. Cela a des répercussions importantes en termes de sécurité alimentaire. Une partie de ces déchets se concentre dans des zones océaniques appelées gyres, causés par les courants marins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">Il existe cependant des solutions pour lutter contre ces catastrophes. Là où l’on a cessé de détruire, la vie est revenue. L'environnement marin est capable de résilience,
si on le laisse se remettre des facteurs de stress anthropiques grâce à une bonne gestion de ses écosystèmes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">C’est avec l’objectif d’encourager la collaboration scientifique internationale en vue de répondre à ces défis que l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies a proclamé
le 5 décembre dernier la <i>Décennie pour les sciences océaniques au service du développement durable</i> (2021-2030). La Commission océanographique intergouvernementale de l’UNESCO a été chargée d’en piloter les préparatifs et la mise en œuvre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">Dans la droite ligne de l’<i>Agenda</i> pour le
<i>développement durable à l’horizon 2030</i> et de son Objectif sur la conservation et l’exploitation durable de l’Océan, cette Décennie sera une occasion unique de mobiliser tous les acteurs concernés autour d’un programme commun de recherche et d’innovation
technologique, pour mieux comprendre les facteurs qui affectent cette ressource, leurs conséquences et y apporter les meilleures réponses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">Cette ambition exige des investissements à sa hauteur. D’après le
<i>Rapport mondial sur les sciences océaniques </i>publié en 2017, celles-ci ne représentent que 4,5 % du financement public attribué aux sciences naturelles à l’échelle mondiale. Nous ne pouvons nous contenter de cette situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">Aucun pays n’est capable de mesurer seul les changements de l’Océan, ni de le nettoyer, ni de le protéger. C’est par la coopération internationale, le transfert
de technologies et le partage de connaissances que nous aboutirons à l’élaboration de politiques qui favorisent une croissance durable fondée sur l’Océan et respectueuse de l’environnement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">En cette Journée mondiale de l’Océan, l’UNESCO invite donc les États membres, la communauté scientifique, la société civile et le secteur privé à unir leurs forces
en faisant leur la maxime de l’écrivain japonais Ryūnosuke Akutagawa : « Individuellement, nous sommes une goutte.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">Ensemble, nous sommes un Océan. »<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.25in;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;layout-grid-mode:line">Message from Ms Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">on the occasion of World Oceans Day,
<i>Clean Our Ocean, 8 June 2018<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">The ocean is home to the majority of species living on our planet. It provides more
than 60% of “ecosystem services” that allow us to live, starting with the production of most of our oxygen, and climate regulation: in the last half century, the ocean has absorbed 93% of the excess heat linked to the increase in the greenhouse effect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">The ocean is a prerequisite for the possibility of life on Earth. It is endangered,
however, by the overexploitation of resources, pollution and increasing CO<sub>2</sub> absorption. Global warming, acidification, dead zones, harmful algal blooms and ecosystem degradation are phenomena that reflect the impact of human activities on the ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">This year, the discovery in the Gulf of Oman of a new “dead zone” which is larger than
Scotland and still growing, highlighted the phenomenon that occurs when marine life becomes asphyxiated in ocean areas with drastically low levels of oxygen. This plight comes on top of overfishing and pollution, particularly that caused by plastic waste,
which is dumped into the ocean at the rate of one lorry load per minute, entering our food web. This has major implications for food security. Part of this waste is concentrated in ocean areas called gyres, caused by circulating ocean currents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">There are, nonetheless, solutions to combat such disasters. In places where destruction
has ceased, life has returned. The marine environment can demonstrate resilience if we allow it to recover from anthropogenic stresses through good management of its ecosystems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;layout-grid-mode:line"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before:always">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">With the aim of encouraging international scientific collaboration to address such
challenges, on 5 December 2017, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). The UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) has been mandated to coordinate its preparation
and implementation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">In line with the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goal on the conservation
and sustainable use of the ocean, this Decade will be a unique opportunity to mobilize all stakeholders around a common agenda of research and technological innovation to gain a better understanding of the factors affecting this resource, their consequences,
and to provide the best responses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">This goal requires up to the mark investment. According to the
<i>Global Ocean Science Report </i>published in 2017, it currently represents only 4.5% of the public funding allocated to natural sciences at the global level. We cannot sit back and allow this situation to continue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">No country alone is capable of measuring changes in the ocean, nor of cleaning and
protecting it. Through international cooperation, technology transfer and knowledge sharing, we can succeed in developing environmentally friendly policies that promote sustainable growth based on the ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line">On this World Oceans Day, UNESCO invites Member States, the scientific community, civil
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