As a result of climate change, species are increasingly migrating into the high seas and global oceans. The movement of marine species beyond national jurisdictions poses significant challenges to conservation and sustainable management efforts highlighting the need for effective governance and protection of these areas. We are disappointed that the Government has not found time in the legislative timetable to introduce primary legislation to ratify the Agreement under the United Nations Conv...

As a result of climate change, species are increasingly migrating into the high seas and global oceans. The movement of marine species beyond national jurisdictions poses significant challenges to conservation and sustainable management efforts highlighting the need for effective governance and protection of these areas. We are disappointed that the Government has not found time in the legislative timetable to introduce primary legislation to ratify the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction—the Global Ocea Type: conclusion | Number: 23 | Response status: accepted Government response: As the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy MP, noted in his Kew lecture in September 2024, the Government is completely committed to ratifying the BBNJ Agreement.4 Furthermore, as announced by Defra’s Minister for Water and Flooding, Emma Hardy MP, in her speech at the Thi