President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday, June 8 in a video his desire to make 2025 "the year of the oceans" in France, in order to highlight "a treasure of biodiversity (...) at the heart of our destiny and that of humanity."
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We are the second maritime power in the world, thanks in particular to our Overseas, "said the head of state in a video recorded during his recent visit to Mont-Saint-Michel and broadcast Thursday on social networks on the occasion of World Oceans Day. "It's a huge issue because it's (...) A treasure trove of biodiversity: it captures carbon and therefore it allows us not to suffocate," he added.
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In 2025, we will host the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, but we must make 2025 the year of the oceans," said the president, whose video highlights scientists and explorers committed to ocean protection. In the perspective of 2025, it intends to launch "a whole series of works to work, prepare, mobilize, make known in schools, colleges, high schools, in the professional world and fully France this great ocean nation".