“The oceans are at the heart of our destiny and that of humanity”, pleads the Head of State, in a video recorded from Mont-Saint-Michel, before recalling that the United Nations conference for the oceans will be held in Nice in 2025.
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Emmanuel Macron announces this Thursday that 2025 will be “the year of the oceans“, In France. “We are going to launch a whole series of works to work, prepare, mobilize, make known in schools, in colleges, in high schools, in the professional world“, explains the President of the Republic in a video message on Twitter, from Mont-Saint-Michel (Manche). The moment is not chosen at random. “In 2025, we will host the United Nations conference for the oceans in Nice“, he recalls.
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“The oceans are at the heart of our destiny and that of humanity“, also underlines the Head of State. Especially since “France is the second maritime power in the world, thanks in particular to our overseas territories“. This video sequence is interspersed with interventions by scientists and explorers. Among them: Jean-Louis Étienne, but also Romain Troublé, CEO of the Tara Ocean Foundation, and Françoise Gaill, President of the Ocean Sustainability Foundation and CNRS researcher.
The Élysée also recalls that a “very ambitious research program” to better understand the deep seabed has already been launched. It is “endowed with 50 million euros, and four missions endowed with 100 million euros to develop exploration drones, in particular around the marine volcano of Mayotte, to better understand these unique and little-known ecosystems“.
“These efforts to explore and strengthen our scientific knowledge will accelerate” And “the President will have the opportunity to come back to this in the coming weeks“, says the same source.