🌍 The High Seas Treaty is now law, turning the ocean beyond borders from an extraction zone into a governed commons. Protection, impact assessments, benefit sharing, accountability. Late, fragile, necessary. Multilateralism still works when survival demands it.

Who will actually stop violations, with what assets, and under whose authority?

https://highseasalliance.org/2026/01/16/historic-high-seas-treaty-enters-into-force-launching-a-new-era-of-global-ocean-governance/ #highseastreaty

Things to know about the High Seas Treaty as it takes effect https://phys.org/news/2026-01-high-seas-treaty-effect.html

#ocean #sea #HighSeasTreaty #environment

#DailyGoodNews 17/01/2026

A win today for the #ocean and all the #wildlife therein!

Today the #HighSeasTreaty goes into effect. Ratified by 83 nations, the treaty is built around four principles protecting the preservation of international waters. Existing laws covered national jurisdictions, but this Treaty provides frameworks to establish protected areas and mandate #environmental impact assessments in international waters.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166762

#biodiversity #environment

Major political geography event: #BBNJ aka "#HighSeasTreaty" takes effect today, meaning new laws governing environmental protection in intl. waters are now binding on 81 countries that have so far ratified it, including #Brazil, #China, #Japan, #France, #Germany.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166762

#geography #oceans #maritime #lawofthesea #internationalwaters #geopolitics @geography @geopolitics #worldpolitics #internationallaw

A must read!

There is so much more going on in the world betond social media clickbait outrage.

"This gap, between the world as it is and how we’re told to see it, comes down to a choice about what we do with our attention."

https://open.substack.com/pub/fixthenews/p/the-telemetry

#Environment #Energy #Solar #Trachoma #Conservatiob #HighSeasTreaty #MediaBias #MurderRate