Global ocean panel launched
A NEW international panel to promote a sustainable ocean economy was launched in Davos last month by Erna Solberg. The Norwegian prime minister told the World Forum for Development and the Environment: ‘The ocean has enormous potential for meeting the world’s resource needs and providing jobs and economic and social development. This can only be triggered through sustainable growth in the marine industries globally.’ Premier Solberg added: ‘We have to take far better care of the oceans than we do today, otherwise, we may risk that they will contain more plastic than fish by 2050.’ The panel will be open to both rich and Third World nations.