A position assumed and that the French president will carry “in international forums.

Emmanuel Macron pleaded Monday at COP27 in Egypt for a "ban on all exploitation of the deep seabed".

"The oceans must be what space was, basically, a few years ago: it's a new frontier for cooperation and multilateralism," he said from the podium of the summit. the UN for the climate in Sharm el-Sheikh.

France, "meeting its commitments", "supports the prohibition of any exploitation of the deep seabed", he added.

In June, the French head of state had already defended, during the United Nations conference for the oceans, the development of a "legal framework to put a stop to the mining of funds in high sea ​​and not allow new activities that would endanger ocean ecosystems”.



French deputies of all persuasions and associations demanded at the end of October that France reflect this desire by committing to a moratorium of at least ten years on the mining of the seabed.

The elected environmentalist Nicolas Thierry tabled Monday in the National Assembly a resolution to this effect co-signed by 168 deputies.

They are calling for such a moratorium within the International Seabed Authority (AIFM), which meets until November 11 in Jamaica.

President Macron also promised the establishment of "positive preservation programs" to protect "critical ecosystems - ancient forests, peatlands, mangroves or wetlands".

"We must therefore urgently recognize a special status for these ecosystems and offer the States that shelter them political and financial contracts to help them preserve them," he said, adding that Gabon, Colombia and the Philippines had "joined" this approach during a meeting on Monday at COP27.

“We will meet in Libreville in early 2023 to adopt very concrete action plans during a One Forest Summit” co-organized with his Gabonese counterpart Ali Bongo, added the French president.

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