{"id":100273,"date":"2023-01-24T11:37:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T06:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/?post_type=newss&p=100273"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T06:07:30","slug":"lets-all-become-champions-of-the-ocean-needs-un-chief-guterres","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/lets-all-become-champions-of-the-ocean-needs-un-chief-guterres\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Let\u2019s all become champions of the ocean needs\u2019 \u2013 UN chief Guterres"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the last day of his visit to Cabo Verde, UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres addressed the Ocean Race Summit Mindelo, saying that \u201cending the ocean emergency is a race we must win.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAnd by working as one,\u00a0it\u2019s a race we can win<\/a>. Let\u2019s all become the champions of the ocean needs. Let\u2019s end the ocean emergency and preserve this precious blue gift for our children and grandchildren,\u201d urged the UN chief.<\/p>\n

The Secretary-General was speaking from the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo, in S\u00e3o Vicente, a state-of-the-art facility that hosts large marine scientific equipment such as deep-sea robots, as well as electronics workshops, and cutting-edge laboratories.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, as the building opened its doors to the participants of the Summit, it served as a visible manifestation of the bet Cabo Verde is making on boosting the archipelago\u2019s blue economy.<\/p>\n

Looking through the huge doors opening onto the Port, the same harbor that allowed many Cabo Verdeans to leave in search of a better life, the Prime Minister noted how the ocean used to describe a feeling of longing and melancholy.<\/p>\n

Today, Ulisses Correia e Silva explained, \u201cit represents tourism, desalinated water, blue economy, submarine fiber optic cables, clean energy, biotechnology, aquaculture, canning industry for export, a competence center and nautical events such as the Ocean Race.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[979,1919],"region":[26],"source":[1538],"country":[1920],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/100273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/100273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100274,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/100273\/revisions\/100274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100273"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=100273"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=100273"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=100273"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=100273"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=100273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}