High Seas Treaty

Debate between Baroness Boycott and Baroness Hayman
Monday 10th March 2025

(3 weeks, 5 days ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Boycott Portrait Baroness Boycott (CB)
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I thank the noble Baroness very much for that Answer. It is very good news to hear that we are limiting bottom trawling in MPAs, but the point of my Question was to ask whether we have a Bill going through the noble Baroness’s department—or, indeed, the FCDO—which will ratify the global ocean treaty. The UN conference will happen in June. If we have not ratified our treaties, as I understand it, we will not have a seat at the first ocean COP.

Baroness Hayman Portrait Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab)
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The UK will continue to be proactive in preparing for implementation and entry. We are committed to partnering with others, in particular the global South and the Commonwealth Secretariat, to ratify and implement the agreement. We are actively engaging in that. The first meeting will take place at the UN in New York this April. We very much support this, and we are working with others to move forward.