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BLUE FOOD FOR ACTION
Changing the trajectory

of ocean crises

Following a first publication resulting from the previous Monaco Ocean

Week, the Varda group and its partners brought together ocean scientists,
governance experts and those involved in ocean protection in order to

continue avenues for reflection and actively prepare the future United Nations
Ocean Conference.

“Shouldn’t the plastic waste policy be modelled on BOLDNESS OR THE WIND
the policy developed successfully in the 1980s for ra- OF CHANGE
dioactive waste which consisted in no longer treating it
as diluted and dispersed elements but in identifying it How can we scale up the proposals updated last year
as permanent radionuclides in the biosphere?”, ques- so that they constitute a roadmap for ocean mana-
tioned the members of the Varda Group in the article gement? This was the dynamic that drove this round
“From Blue Food for Thought to Blue Food for Action”, table organised within the Prince Albert II of Monaco
published with the support of the Prince Albert II of Foundation. “We need bold approaches, as pointed
Monaco Foundation. This document led to a rich dis- out by John Kerry, US Special Presidential Envoy for
cussion encouraging the authors to prepare this new Climate, and this process is a fine example” initiated
webinar, the first of a series of consultations whose Rémi Parmentier, Director of the Varda Group. Swiss
conclusions will be presented in Lisbon at the end of philanthropist Dona Bertarelli, an advocate for ocean
June 2022. conservation, added: “There are high hopes for the
30% protection target by 2030, but we need to think
bigger and complete what is already underway”.